Taking Notes with Tomboy

Contents

8.1. Creating Notes
8.2. Searching All Notes
8.3. Linking Notes
8.4. Accessing Your Notes
8.5. Formatting Text in Notes
8.6. Exporting Notes to HTML
8.7. Deleting Notes
8.8. Printing Notes
8.9. Configuring Tomboy Preferences

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:

Tomboy is located on the GNOME panel (Tomboy panel icon), and by default, is started automatically when you log into GNOME. You can also access Tomboy by clicking Computer+More Applications+Utilities+Tomboy Notes.

This sections contains the following information

Creating Notes

To create a new note, click the Tomboy Notes icon (Tomboy panel icon) in your GNOME Panel, then select Create New Note.

Figure 8.1. A New Tomboy Note

A New Tomboy Note

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 8.5, “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 8.3, “Linking Notes”.