Part II. Office and Collaboration / Chapter 11. Taking Notes with Tomboy | ||||
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 | 10.6. Preventing Files and Directories from Being Indexed | 11.2. Searching All Notes |  | |
Part II. Office and Collaboration / Chapter 11. Taking Notes with Tomboy | ||||
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| 10.6. Preventing Files and Directories from Being Indexed | 11.2. Searching All Notes | | |
Contents
Tomboy is a GNOME desktop application for taking notes that gives you the ability to organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Among other things, it can help you collect and sort all kind of data, write down your ideas, make to do lists, and allocate your contacts.
Tomboy also has some useful editing features to help you customize your notes, including:
Highlighting search text
Inline spell checking
Auto-linking Web and e-mail addresses
Undo/redo support
Font styling and sizing
Bulleted lists
Tomboy is located on the GNOME panel (
), and by default, is started automatically when
you log into GNOME. You can also access Tomboy by clicking +++.
This sections contains the following information
To create a new note, click the Tomboy Notes icon () in your GNOME Panel, then select
.
To edit the note, click the content area, then use the
keyboard to add and remove content. The first line of the note
holds the title. By default, this is populated with the text
New Note . You can
change the title by clicking the line and using the keyboard to
change the title. By default, focus is given to the content area
upon creation of a new note, so you can immediately start editing
the note without clicking the content area. For more information on
formatting the contents of a note, see Section 11.5, “Formatting Text in Notes”.#
Your note is saved automatically.
You can then organize the notes you create by linking related notes and ideas together. Fore more information, see Section 11.3, “Linking Notes”.
