Taking care of your ideas
Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
Installation: Via dpkg
Version: 2.0~beta1-0ubuntu1
Description:
A multi-purpose note-taking application for KDE. This application provides as many baskets (drawers) as you wish; Several kinds of objects (texts, URLs, images,...) can be drag-n-drop'd into it. Objects can be edited, copied, dragged... So, they can be arranged according to users' taste. Moreover, Basket allows you to keep all objects you want in one place, keep data on hand, take notes...
Homepage: http://basket.kde.org/
BasKet Note Pads is a KDE program but it works well in Gnome too. One things that I loved very much is that its first page is a good starting point with a brief feature list, an import link and a quick introduction. Moreover, the welcome basket even has a link to delete it when you are done with it!
It has a long list of features:
- Rich text support
- Image creation and embedding within notes. You can even open the image for editing in your favourite graphics editor, make changes and save them back to your notes in a seamless manner.
- Support for four ready made note templates namely – one column, two column, three column and free nodes.
- Tag support. You can tag individual notes and then filter the notes on tags.
- Very powerful search and find capability. It doesn’t yet find text in images though.
- Do a screen capture of your desktop and directly embed it in your notes.
- Easily backup and restore your notes.
- You can import notes from KJots, KNotes, KnowIt, TuxCards, Sticky notes, Tomboy and text files.
- Password protect your notes.
- Export the notes as an HTML web page.
- Embed BasKet into KDE Kontact.
- Your notes are automatically saved as soon as you modify them.
- You can check spelling of your text in notes.
Additionally it has some nice little features that are really useful like being able to collapse/expand every piece of note, progressive Select All action and having things like TO-DO and Progress.
Moreover, it has freeform baskets to replace papers and column layout which I use for as an outliner.
However, there are some shorcomings: You cannot add tables to baskets and it does not have any kind of synchronization.
All in all, it is a great note-taking application which also can be used a an outliner.
Some links:
Screenshots: http://basket.kde.org/screenshots.php
Another review: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/take-and-manage-notes-in-linux-with-basket-2
Another review: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/BasKet-Note-Pads-Review-47801.shtml
Another review: http://beyondteck.blogspot.com/2009/03/greate-onenote-like-free-notetaking.html
A short review: http://linux.aldeby.org/basket-note-pads-one-note-gnulinux-alternative.html
Participate: http://basket.kde.org/roadmap.php