When I was a younger computer user, I obsessed with the idea of placing virtual sticky notes on the computer desktop. I have no explanation for why. Now, I don’t like them nearly as much. I liked how human it was and how it made my desktop screen look like the top of my actual desk! Disorganized and cluttered. I am sure that if I could place virtual excess writing utensils, unused CD-ROMs, pens, shoe laces, extra change, and random chords and USB cables on my computer desktop I probably would.
I found a better solution:
Tomboy notes. Tomboy notes are very easy to use. They organize well and each note is kept in an index. I use Tomboy notes for keeping track of daily things, but I also have other note pads for specialized things. I use Tomboy when I have something I need to be able to remember for the short-term time, but I don’t feel that it is worth creating a
Example note in Tomboy 0.10.2, a notetaking application. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (OS is Linux)
document on my computer for. Right now, I have a snippet of HTML code for HTTP redirects down, a notepad called “main notes” where I write daily tasks and things I need to remember, and a notepad with things related to a study group that I am in.
Tomboy notes is part of the Gnome project and is open source and completely free. Its short description is “Tomboy: Simple Note Taking. Powerful ideas.”
Notes can be organized into notebooks if you are using many at once. A notebook allows you to categorize easily. One of my favorite features in Tomboy is “WikiWords”. When enabled, typing words InSeriesLikeThis will automatically highlight that text and when you click, will link to another note with that name. This lets notes tie together easily and is quite handy. (Enable in Edit> Preferences, WikiWords)
You can read more about Tomboy and download it from their website: http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
Pros:
Very easy to use. Simple.
Fast.
Stable.
2.6MB download.
Supports synchronization.
Cons:
Uses about 29MB of RAM, which seems a bit much for this kind of program.
Neutral: A single-use program, does not do anything but take care of notes. (This being good and bad).
Tomboy Notes is truly software worth noting.
