RedNotebook is a relatively new lightweight Journal and Diary software. It has surprisingly few features and a effective interface making it a pleasure to use for adding small notes or for logging your activities.
I am a happy user of Windows based The Journal that works under Linux using wine, but I must admit that I have been looking for a quick loading, easy to use journal that runs directly under Linux.
RedNotebook is under quick development, the developer, Jendrik Seipp, seems to be very ambitious with this project and new versions show up regularly.
The current version 0.8.6 shows a middle section for daily entries with a calender and a clever search and cloud module on the left. On the right there is a column that can be adapted to display small notes like a todo-list or tags.
To me that is just about all it has and can do, as it hasn’t a wysisyg editor yet (that might come in version 1.0) so the formatting of text is rather rudimental with a button to show the preview of the text. It can export the entries, or one of the entries into .txt, html or latext files.
But I will use it on my netbook as it is a joy to quickly open it and add some notes on the fly, and I am curious to see how the setup, the search and cloud module, works with a larger amount of data.
(via the german tuxtux.org)