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 derivative package names.
- Python (>= 3.4): https://www.python.org
- GTK+ (>= 3.10): https://www.gtk.org
- WebKitGTK+ (>= 2.16): https://webkitgtk.org
- PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org
Recommended libraries:
- PyEnchant (spell checking)
Run under Linux (without installation)
$ ./run
Run under Windows
Install Python 3 (32-bit version), change into the win
directory, run
C:\path\to\rednotebook\win> python create-build-env.py
and add C:\gtkbin
to your path. Now change back into the rednotebook
directory and run
C:\path\to\rednotebook> python3 rednotebook/journal.py
Be sure to use the 32-bit version of Python! (Or install the 64-bit versions of the various dependencies required for the project.)
Install
It is recommended 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 in the global site-packages
directory and make
rednotebook
command available globally:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
# Change into RedNotebook directory.
sudo pip3 install .
Install RedNotebook locally under
~/.local/lib/python3.x/site-packages/
and create
~/.local/bin/rednotebook
executable:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
# Change into RedNotebook directory.
pip3 install --user .
Thanks to
- The authors of the libraries listed under 'Requirements'.
- Ciaran for creating the RedNotebook icon.
- The txt2tags team (http://txt2tags.net) for their markup conversion tool.
- Ahmet Öztürk and Lifeograph for his markup highlighting idea
- Hannes Matuschek: The code for markup highlighting uses a specialized version of his pygtkcodebuffer module (http://code.google.com/p/pygtkcodebuffer/).
- 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!