So happy that you chose to feature this oldie but goodie on MUO! KeyNote NF (the “NF” stands for New Features) is a fork of the original KeyNote (first released all the way back in Y2K!), which the author mysteriously abandoned and open-sourced the project to anyone willing to pick it up.

It’s kind of a sad story:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051218102755/http://www.tranglos.com/free/closedown.html

But good to see that someone renewed development on the project. I use KeyNote for all sorts of things, but as a writers’ notebook primarily.

Of interest also, a similar app is Notebox Disorganizer IIe, another classic “abandonware” app that serves much of the same functions. ND2e was originally promoted on (talk about a way-back machine) a Yahoo! GeoCities page (!) that is now archived by OoCities:

http://www.oocities.org/goosnargh37/squirreltech/software/n-docs.html

He maintains the downloads at Google Code since GeoCities was closed down:
https://sites.google.com/site/squirreltechnologist/

(And whoever “The Squirrel Technologist” is, he’s pretty funny, a little, well… “nuts.”)

But KeyNote is by far the one I use most extensively. I use it to keep track of blog posts, as a journal, to take notes of learning programming languages, to take notes for my current studies, etc. I simply love the tree structure of the notes at the side.

This was the one program that kept me from moving fully to linux! Sounds incredible but it worked like crap on any linux distro I tried (Ubuntu with Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Enlightenment; Linux Mint; OpenSuse, PuppyLinux …) It never worked well and crashed often on linux, dunno why. And I had too many notes on this app to move them to another program. And believe me I tried many apps and wasted too many hours looking for a suitable replacement.

I save the files to my DropBox folder and lo and behold(!) I have ubiquitous notes :)