Not really a question. More a discovery I want to share. (And only useful for fellow Linux folk, because apparently there's nothing this good for Windows or Mac unless you're willing to pay hundreds of dollars for it see Fahim's correction below).
So... I've been using Tomboy sticky notes for a while, and they were... useful enough to keep track of things in general, but not so useful for writing, apart from "thoughts I cannot get into a text file because it's God-awful am and I'm half asleep".
But I really wanted to use them to organize my novel, because they make automatic links. So if, say, I make a note called "Maarten", my MC's name, every time I type "Maarten" into any other note, it creates a link. And if I change Maarten's name? All the links to it also change to the new name. Amazingly useful.
The big problem was that there was no hierarchical structure to the notes. Complete flat structure. Here are notes. Sort by name or last-edited date. No other options.
But.
Now I'm using Tomboy 0.9.4, and they've added one more feature that makes a radical difference. Notebooks. We can organize notes into notebooks!
This has magically turned Tomboy into the Perfect Tool for keeping track of plot-and-world details.
It's simple, it keeps track of connections for me, and it's easy to navigate.
There are still a few bugs in this version (I filed my first two bug reports ever!)
but despite that, it's lovely. Utterly lovely.
So I wanted to share.
ETA: 0.10.0 was released yesterday. Probably fixed my bugs.
So... I've been using Tomboy sticky notes for a while, and they were... useful enough to keep track of things in general, but not so useful for writing, apart from "thoughts I cannot get into a text file because it's God-awful am and I'm half asleep".
But I really wanted to use them to organize my novel, because they make automatic links. So if, say, I make a note called "Maarten", my MC's name, every time I type "Maarten" into any other note, it creates a link. And if I change Maarten's name? All the links to it also change to the new name. Amazingly useful.
The big problem was that there was no hierarchical structure to the notes. Complete flat structure. Here are notes. Sort by name or last-edited date. No other options.
But.
Now I'm using Tomboy 0.9.4, and they've added one more feature that makes a radical difference. Notebooks. We can organize notes into notebooks!
This has magically turned Tomboy into the Perfect Tool for keeping track of plot-and-world details.It's simple, it keeps track of connections for me, and it's easy to navigate.
There are still a few bugs in this version (I filed my first two bug reports ever!)
but despite that, it's lovely. Utterly lovely.
So I wanted to share.
ETA: 0.10.0 was released yesterday. Probably fixed my bugs.
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If you want similar wiki-like functionality, then there's a lot of stuff like 