RedNotebook
RedNotebook is a modern desktop journal. It lets you format, tag and search your entries. You can also add pictures, links and customizable templates, spell check your notes, and export to plain text, HTML, Latex or PDF.
Requirements
See debian/control for Debian and Ubuntu package names.
- Python (>= 3.4): https://www.python.org
- GTK (>= 3.18): https://www.gtk.org
- GtkSourceView (>= 3.18): https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView
- WebKitGTK (>= 2.16, not needed for Windows): https://webkitgtk.org
- PyYAML (>= 3.10): https://pyyaml.org
Recommended libraries:
- PyEnchant for spell checking (>= 1.6): https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/
Run on Linux (without installation)
$ ./run
Install on Linux
We recommend to install RedNotebook with your package manager or to download the Windows installer. Follow the steps below only if your distribution has no RedNotebook package or you want to use a newer RedNotebook version.
Install RedNotebook under ~/.local/lib/python3.x/site-packages/ and
create ~/.local/bin/rednotebook executable:
sudo apt install python3-pip
# Change into RedNotebook repository.
pip3 install .
Run on Windows
See appveyor.yml for setup instructions, then run
C:\path\to\rednotebook> python3 rednotebook/journal.py
Thanks to
- The authors of the libraries listed under 'Requirements'.
- Ciaran for creating the RedNotebook icon.
- The txt2tags team (https://txt2tags.org) for their markup conversion tool.
- Dieter Verfaillie for his elib.intl module (https://github.com/dieterv/elib.intl)
License notes
RedNotebook is published under the GPLv2+. Since it bundles code
released under the LGPLv3+, the resulting work is licensed under the
GPLv3+. See debian/copyright for detailed license information.
Enjoy!