OT: looking for a local wikipad

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 17 15:25:54 UTC 2009


Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> I: I just installed it (tomboy) my KDE, you don't need to be running 
> on Gnome. If you're on ubuntu or debain missing dependencies will 
> usually get downloaded. In my case I didn't need to download anything 
> other than Tomboy.
>
> Tomboy is just ok, I don't like that fact that it needs to open a new 
> notepad when I jump from topic to topic. I don't see a way in the 
> setting to be able to navigate in a single view.
>
> 1) I also don't like having to use the menu to markup text i.e making 
> it bold or highlighted
>
> 2) Would also be nice to display a parent/child tree structure like 
> wikidpad does. I find that more useful than a list of notes.
>
> For what it's worth I prefer Scott's mention of 'TiddlyWiki', nothing 
> to install, works like you come to expect a wiki should work, plus you 
> have good search support.
>
> I ended up purge(ing) tomboy.
>
Try "Basket Note Pads".  It'll do what you want.  I sent you the link in 
another message.

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