Coffee Notes is crossplatform note-taking application inspired by Notational Velocity.
Initial release was sketched by me while I was drinking coffee in the coffee house. :)
This app is written in Python 2.6 and uses PyQt4.
- Go to Downloads to download deb-package; then as usual,
sudo dpkg --install <deb-name>; Coffee Notes should appear in Accesories section of the main menu. - Click Zip button to download source code as zip-archive; unpack it to any directory and launch
cn.py.
Run Coffee Notes and start typing your note — it will be saved automatically (first line become the note's title).
Press Ctrl+L and type anything in the search bar to find notes.
No need to click "Save" button! Everything you type will be saved immediately (actually, autosave goes off every 5 seconds by default, it can be changed — see Autosave parameter in config file below).
Ctrl+N— create new (empty) noteCtrl+L— switch to search bar/note textEsc— clear search/title barCtrl+O— toggle orientation to vertical/horizontalCtrl+D— delete current note (if any)Tab— jump through search/title bar, notes list and text areaCtrl+Q— quit
Config file should be located in your home directory: ~/.cn.conf. Here is a sample file:
WorkDir=~/Dropbox/path/to/your/notes
EditFont=Georgia, 14
ListFont=Ubuntu, 12
Autosave=5
WorkDirreffers to the directory where your notes are stored (~/Coffee Notesby default)EditFontandListFontset the font family and size for the note editor and notes list respectivelyAutosavesets autosave interval in seconds (must be integer, 5 by default).
Coffee Notes keeps all notes as a text files in a separate directory (~/Coffee Notes by default), you can just move this directory with its contents to your Dropbox directory — create ~/cn.conf file and put there the following line:
WorkDir=~/Dropbox/path/to/your/notes
Insead, you can create symlink: ln -s ~/Dropbox/path/to/your/notes ~/Coffee\ Notes
Planned in the nearest future releases. See Issue #9.
Major releases of Coffee Notes have names: Espresso, Americano, Cappiccino etc. Each version of the named major release has version in format Year.Month (such as 11.10) with optional letter ("a" for the "alpha" release, or "b" for "beta" release).