A few weeks ago, I started looking around for an application that makes it easy to take notes. I do all my writing in Vim, but I wanted something that was good for quick and dirty notetaking and for organizing information without maintaining a collection of text files. After some research, I settled on Tomboy.

Tomboy is a simple desktop note-taking application for Linux and other *nix operating systems. It's written in C# and runs on Mono. It has also just been accepted into GNOME 2.16, so Tomboy will be appearing on a lot of Linux users' desktops soon, if it's not there already.

You may need to install Tomboy, since it's not yet part of the stable GNOME release. Most recent distros should have Tomboy packages available, though they may not be installed by default. On Ubuntu, run apt-get install tomboy, which should pull down all the necessary dependencies, including Mono, if you don't have it installed already.

Once you have Tomboy installed, you'll be able to start creating notes right away.

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