Tomboy is a

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desktop notetaking app written for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD operating systems. Tomboy is part of the

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desktop environment. As Ubuntu changed over time and its cloud synchronization software Ubuntu One came and went, Tomboy inspired various forks and clones. Its interface is a word processor with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match existing note titles become hyperlinks automatically, making it simple to construct a personal wiki. For example, repeated references to favorite artists would be automatically highlighted in notes containing their names. As of version 1.6 (2010), it supports text entries and hyperlinks to the World Wide Web, but not graphic image linking or embedding. Development of the original Tomboy software ceased in 2017. Starting in 2017 the development team rewrote the software from scratch, for ease of maintenance and installation, renaming it tomboy-ng. Tomboy-ng is written in Free Pascal.

Features

Some of the editing features supported: * Text highlighting * Inline spell checking using GtkSpell *

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of Web and email addresses * Undo/redo * Font styling and sizing * Bulleted lists * Note synchronization over SSH, WebDAV, Ubuntu One, or the Tomboy REST API that is implemented by several server applications

Plugins

Tomboy supports several plugins, including: * Evolution mail links * Galago/

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presence * Note of the day (disabled by default) * Fixed width text * HTML export * LaTeX math (in the package , not installed by default) * Print

Ports

* Conboy: a Tomboy port to the Maemo platform written in the C language * Gnote: a conversion of the Tomboy code to the C++ language, but is not cross-platform * libktomgirl: a platform-independent library that reads and writes the Tomboy File Format * Tomdroid: an effort to produce a Tomboy-compatbile notetaking app for the

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operating system.

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External links

* {{Notetaking software Software that uses Mono (software) Free note-taking software Cross-platform free software Free software programmed in C Sharp GNOME Applications Note-taking software that uses GTK Personal wikis

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