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Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use. It lets you organise your notes intelligently by allowing you to easily link ideas together with Wiki style interconnects.

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems?

Time for Tomboy. We bet you'll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.

Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.

Features:

  • Highlighting text
  • Inline spell checking
  • Auto-linking web & email addresses
  • Undo/redo
  • Font styling & sizing
  • Bulleted lists
  • Web synchronization to multiple devices

Excerpted directly, with very slight modification, from the Tomboy home page.

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Send to Tomboy Context Menu

Is there any way to add an option to right click menus for text files and/or highlighted text to "send to Tomboy" so that it would create a new note with the contents of the text file or highlighted text as the contents of the new note?
gregghz
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Embedding external URLs behind text in Tomboy

Is there any way to embed a URL to an external web page in the text of a tomboy note, in the same way that other notes are linked to? I know I can just pates the URL into the note and have it link out, but when the link is over a hundred characters…
user2405
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How do I specify the location Tomboy is to use to store the notes?

How do I specify the location Tomboy is to use to store the notes? I am on 10.10 (Maverick). Edit: Somebody posted the right answer but now it seems to have been deleted. From memory: it has to do with editing your /etc/profile with a secret…
H2ONaCl
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Is there a way to print notes from Tomboy?

Is there a way to print out my Tomboy notes?
Rob
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Tomboy Notes is not starting

My Tomboy Notes is not starting. As soon as I start it, it gets closed. This problem started when I added a task in Tasque and the task importer plugin was enabled in Tomboy Notes and then just happened to open my Tomboy Notes and it crashed. Now I…
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Can't copy highlighted text from Tomboy to Thunderbird (or other apps)

Not sure why but I can only copy text from Tomboy notes to Gedit and then re-highlight and copy in to the app I need the text in. I am guessing this is a simple issue of config and not a real problem. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Is there a way to back up Tomboy Notes?

I have some class notes and relatively important stuff that I have saved in Tomboy Notes. I need to wipe my Ubuntu 10.10 and install the newest version of Ubuntu. I already have a dual-partition Windows machine. Is there a way for me to copy all…
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Disable Tomboy System Tray

First of all, I don't use indicator applet, but I suppose that the icon/process managing Tomboy is the same for both indicator applet and system tray. I want only notificaitons in my system tray (apps have a different dwelling!). How do I, if at all…
MarkovCh1
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I've had Tomboy twice delete a single important note. What's going on there?

Not sure what's going on here, but here's the best I can describe: I use Tomboy extensively, for notes, collecting throw-away passwords,etc. Once a couple of months ago, a very important note just disappeared. No reference to the title, no…
Mittenchops
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