Taking Notes with Tomboy

Contents

9.1. Creating Notes
9.2. Searching All Notes
9.3. Linking Notes
9.4. Accessing Your Notes
9.5. Formatting Text in Notes
9.6. Exporting Notes to HTML
9.7. Deleting Notes
9.8. Printing Notes
9.9. Configuring Tomboy Preferences

Tomboy is a GNOME note-taking application that enables you 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, allocate your contacts and make to-do lists.

Tomboy also has some useful editing features to help you customize your notes, including:

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 Computer+More Applications+Utilities+Tomboy Notes. Tomboy panel icon

Creating Notes

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

Figure 9.1. 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 contains its title. By default, this is populated with the text New Note #. You can change the title by clicking the line and using the keyboard. 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 9.5, “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 9.3, “Linking Notes”.