Comments on: Speaking of the desktop notes applet..

By: ben lemasurier

ben lemasurier — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:09:23 +0000

keybindings for shading/unshading would be great as well! middle click – bam! – all unshaded and cascaded!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:22:16 +0000

I’ve always thought that a behaviour of toggling “Hide All Notes” on middle-click is one feature that I would really find usefull and effiecient in the operation of the aplet (Shift middle-click could be used to toggle the “Shade/Unshade all note” functionality too). Or vice versa.

By: John Spray

John Spray — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:30:41 +0000

I sent a patch to Davyd that makes the always-on-topness configurable. We’ll see what he things. Shading would be cool, I agree.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:20:28 +0000

Phil, thanks for the tip about freemind, it looks pretty cool and useful!

By: joshsteiner

joshsteiner — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:12:12 +0000

anyone know if these notes eiter a) intergrate with the evolution todo list, b) are planned to?

that would be so rad.

By: Ka-Hing CHeung

Ka-Hing CHeung — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:49:58 +0000

Actually I’ve been working on something similar using java-gnome, although it doesn’t look like yellow stickies. Basically just a window with a list showing whatever fits on the first line, and if you double click it the full note is shown. I am currently porting it to java-gnome 2.9.x and it may take a while (school starting).

By: Phil Trickett

Phil Trickett — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:20:50 +0000

What would be nice would be if one of these apps could ‘merge’ or feed in to an app like freemind: http://freemind.sf.net/ which is a nice tool for organising cluttered brains.

By: Lion Kimbro

Lion Kimbro — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:50:32 +0000

Oh, and: Well, this display of old stickies is very similar to your column of sticky titles.

By: Lion Kimbro

Lion Kimbro — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:47:30 +0000

I was thinking:

Notes should never be deleted. When you close a note, it just disappears. It doesn’t ask you, “Do you want to delete this,” it just closes the note. (You never have to think about notes persistance.)

But you should be able to get back a history of all your notes. Under the existing menu, there is “Delete Notes.” Get rid of that; Replace it with “Previous Notes.” That opens a display showing you the times and title (if any) of all previous notes. You can reactivate notes from here.

Of course, maybe you have something sensitive in one. It should be possible to shred one, from this same menu.

By: Brock Tice

Brock Tice — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:50:37 +0000

Yes! This is possible with Mac OS X stickies, but not with any of the notes software I’ve used on Linux. It drives me nuts.