FeatherNotes - A Kind Of Mini-Leo Note Taker

[Thomas Passin]

I just found FeatherNotes, a Linux-only Qt-based note taking program.

It's at FeatherNotes.  Not that I'm suggesting it could replace Leo, but it's interesting to see the similarities and differences.  It's a tree-based, hierarchical program, with a tree view.  One difference from Leo is that the nodes are rich text rather than plain text, and they can contain images, tables, etc.  In this way they are more like word processor pages than Leo's nodes.

Although the install instructions tell you to compile it, FeatherNotes is available as a standard installable package in both Debian and Mint (the only OSs I checked) using Synaptics (i.e., apt-get, etc.).

I've only played with it for a few minutes.  As a Leo user, I feel almost crippled trying to use it, but if I were after just a note-taking app, it would probably be quite satisfactory.

I stumbled across it while I was wondering how practical it would be to embed images in Leo nodes.  It turns out to be easy to insert them.  However, to manage them, save and restore nodes containing the images, using scripts that operate on the contents of nodes, etc. looks like it would be tricky without making serious changes to the way Leo works.  If you want to see images mixed in with text, you can already do that in Leo with RestructuredText/Markdown/Asciidoc nodes using the viewrendered3 plugin.