On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:11:25PM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:37 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > That's not a bad description, but I (as a potential user) would like to know > > what this thing is going to do for me beyond what (say) knotes does > > (post-its for your desktop, in case you were wondering). > > Well I use the stickynotes applet quite a bit and I assume this is > similar to knotes (I prefer GNOME over KDE). Stickynotes is also a > post-it type application. Yup, same thing, different prefix. <g> > Tomboy is really a different beast. What would happen is I would get so > many post-its on my desktop that it became hard to organize them. I > would have phone numbers, or reminders, or even just mini how-to's on > things I didn't do daily. > > What Tomboy brings to the table is a way to organize this info. It does > this by creating links to other notes. I can write a quick 5 line > summary of say how to correctly submit an ITP. But I can go a step > further and highlight the word ITP and cause this to link to a new note > where I list any ITPs I may have submitted. From the new note I could > highlight a specific ITP and link to another new note containing > specific info on that particular ITP. > > If you get a whole lot of notes like I do (over 50) then Tomboy has a > search feature. I can enter ITP in the search field and it will show > links to any note that has ITP in it. See, now *that* is a good description. Maybe not verbatim, but I now have enough information to be able to decide whether I want this or not. - Matt
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