[ubuntu-in] More journal type utilities - Zim

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

Some days back i posted about red note book as a good daily journal, with
tonnes of nice things possible.

well it seems, as usual, that there is something better. Rather it is better
in many ways

Zim - its available in the Ubuntu repos and is not a big hassle to install

once installed go to preferences and check out the plugins and preferably
check all

then read the manual and start your daily journalling

its based on a wiki type concept and once one gets the hang of the basic
elements then it just becomes easier and easier

what is fantastic is its ability to make new sub pages hyper linked) to
place tasks from running text into a task list (complete with date and
priority is one so chooses)

the characters to use for tagging / categorizing are easy to remember and
use like ! for priority and multiple !'s for more priority or the use of
@foo for a tag and the use of [ ] to create check boxes.

Its quite crazily simple and very useful

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Cons - its ability to print selected pages / sections is very limited - it
does export to html and latex but because the data for each section is kept
in a separate text file it makes it not so easy to navigate in html

its not possible to print the task list separately so if one wants to share
(there is a sharing mechanism) it has to be done differently

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Pro's
Light on the system
decent help
multiplicity of uses - note taking , journaling, todo lists etc etc
easy to understand structure (based around dates and topics - the latter of
ones own making)

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regards
ran
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