
Finding that note from six weeks ago about the infomercial is a snap, so long as you can remember at least part of the note. Naturally, Tomboy also has good search capabilities. Tomboy works sort of like a desktop wiki and allows you to link notes to one another, and has a plug-in system with a fair number of extensions to add features you might want. And since Tomboy saves automatically as you work, it’s entirely hassle-free.Īctually, Tomboy has a few up on Evernote. It’s cross-platform, so you can work with Tomboy on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Tomboy is a simple and effective system for note-taking and storing all those snippets of information that need to go somewhere. But it is possible to find quite a few free and open source alternatives that provide much of the same functionality. You can run the Evernote plugin on Firefox and Chrome, or you might get lucky running Evernote in Wine. Even if you’re not picky about software licensing, Evernote isn’t an option on Linux. Some Linux users object to Evernote because it’s not open source, but that’s only half the problem. While the folks at Evernote haven’t created a Linux port, you’ll find plenty of apps for note taking, organization, and wrangling important personal and business documents.

In App News this week, we see new releases from Blender, OpenShot and some interesting news from Evernote. On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have monster of a show with new releases from desktop environments like MATE and KDE Plasma to distro news from MX Linux, Ubuntu, Project Trident and Tiny Core.
