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greenjeans

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Note-taking application

Hey folks, got another in my series of boring yet featureless apps, built on the same basic skeleton as others in C and gtk3, tiny and fast.

From the readme:
VuuNotes, a simple note-taking app. Very basic but useable, creates a folder
under ~/Documents and stores entries as simple individual text (.txt) files.

Your entries will be listed in the treeview to the left under "New Note", just
select one with your mouse and it appears in the main editable pane to the right.

To save a new note, highlight "New Note" at the top of treeview, then create the
body of your note, enter a title in the bottom text-entry/name field, then hit
the save button. To delete an entry just highlight it and hit the delete button.
To modify an entry just add your mods and hit save, it will confirm you want to
overwrite before saving.

The searchbar at the top is a title-only search that narrows choices down as you
type. When done searching just hit the "Clear" button to the upper right and it
will clear the searchbar and return you to the full list of notes.

As of version 1.0-2, you can now add URL's into your notes and the app will
automatically convert them to click-able links that open in your default browser.
In addition, you can now choose on first run to use the default location for the
save folder (~/Documents/VuuNotes/), or select a different location using the
file-chooser dialog.

NOTE: If you drop files manually into ~/Documents/VuuNotes make sure they are
appended with .txt or it won't read them!

A copy of the source code is also available at the link, to mod/recompile you just need the gtk3 dev package
as there are no other depends, code:
gcc -o vuunotes vuunotes.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0)

First run dialog:

GUI:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … /VuuNotes/

WizardofCOR

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Re: Note-taking application

What?!  Are you making more cool stuff again, sir? 

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greenjeans

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Re: Note-taking application

What?!  Are you making more cool stuff again, sir? 

Thank you! I think some of them are pretty cool, but I think most folks would call them boring yet featureless lol! This one i've been using for months and it's handy as a shirt pocket, really helps when i'm in the zone and working fast, no more "Aw crap I done forgot the compile command for this script, where the hell is the file I wrote that down in?". It's also handy for recipes and such.

Got a request from a user on another board to make it work for multiple database directories, I like it like it is, but i'm pondering that one. Thing is there are tons of complex notes apps, this one's niche is rock-bottom simplicity, fast and light, so I want to keep it that way, but there's definitely some merit in that fellow's idea, so i'm going to try it at least.

greenjeans

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Re: Note-taking application

I finally gave in to peer pressure and starting using git, this seemed like a good one to get started as it's just a script and a .desktop. Will eventually get my other projects up there, hopefully get some more testing that way and one day maybe package them suitably for inclusion into various repos. But I need to do a lot of polishing.
https://git.devuan.org/greenjeans/vuunotes

greenjeans

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Re: Note-taking application

There is now a new fork by m15 called VuuNotes2 with many new features and extended capabilities for those who want some additional functionality!
Check it out at: https://git.devuan.org/m15/vuunotes

Deb package to follow soon, this is very new and testing is just getting started.

brontosaurusrex

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Re: Note-taking application

Fuzzy full text search is definitely a feature. I've been testing node cli tool called markdownlint (markdownlint --fix file.md), equivalent may be a neat feature for the future versions (assuming that notes are written fast and hazily & that markdown is the ideal).

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