Comments on: 5 Little Useful Sticky Notes For Linux

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By: Malcolm Bastien

Malcolm Bastien — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:13 +0000

Considering how good Tomboy is already and being included with Ubuntu (one of the best pre-included packages in my opinion) it’s hard to convince people to use anything else but. Though I know that nobody is really using tomboy as effective as possible on their desktops.

By: Vadim

Vadim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:24:16 +0000

Not necessarily a hater; GNote starts up faster and uses less memory for most people.

By: Toshio

Toshio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:14:50 +0000

As an XFCE user, I have used both Gnote and XFCE’s own note-taking panel applet and found them to be on equal footing as far as functionality.
I like the desktop integration that the XFCE note-taking applet brings with it, but I’m amazed at how far Gnote has advanced from when it was initially announced (version 0.1 at the beginning of April I believe) to the present day (version 0.5 as of June 2009). There is some real competition between Gnote and Tomboy as far as number of features, and given 2-3 months, Gnote will have the upper hand.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:57:18 +0000

First, learn how to correctly spell “royally” then you may insult others. Secondly, like my colleagues have pointed out, it was just used as an example. I don’t understand why you need to comment about a little thing like this.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:26:24 +0000

@ Anonstrubator

it’s just an example, and if you you don’t understand that you must be a real idiot.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:05:00 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. I left GNote out because it is essentially the same app as Tomboy. I guess I should make a note at the end of the article for mono-hater.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:55:45 +0000

The screenshot is only for illustration purpose. Do you need to be so rude in your comment?

By: opensas

opensas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:48:02 +0000

yes, User, I was about to make exactly the same observation…
It would be very nice if the author of this article could include the monoless port of tomboy in this review…

By: FreeBooteR

FreeBooteR — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:46:51 +0000

I second Gnote.

By: User

User — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:48:52 +0000

While I only dislike Mono because of strictly technical issues, some people really hate Mono apps on their desktop. Tomboy is one such app that has received such criticism. I would like to point out that there is a C++ port of Tomboy (that works exactly the same, but faster and requires less RAM and disk spaced), GNote. It is a very good alternative to Tomboy.

By: Mekk

Mekk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:47:48 +0000

As you finished with tomboy, let me mention zim. That’s not a notes app, but a “desktop wiki”, but in fact the difference is not that great, and I use it for the same purpose. One feature I like is that entering [] creates clickable checkbox, great for marking progress on ad hoc todo-lists.

By: Anonstrubator

Anonstrubator — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:04:55 +0000

If you need a stickynote to remind you to feed your dog. Well then sir. You are royaly fucked in the head.

By: TidusBlade

TidusBlade — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:50:12 +0000

Nice to see xPad on a sticky notes list! Been using it for over a year and I’ve tried everything else on the list and yet I keep coming back to it, it’s just simple and does the job well.

Just wanted to add that if you’re interested in organizing your thoughts and ideas while having too many of them to handle on sticky note programs, give MindRaider a quick peek. It’s an absolutely brilliant program, would use it but it takes up way too much RAM, is clunky since it’s Java but it just be my Java install… Anyways, just thought it would be interesting