Note-Taking App for Linux Desktop
Take Note
You don't need a complex, feature-packed app to take notes. Iotas is a simple but flexible package for recording your ideas, important information, and more.
One of the booming cottage industries in the software world, whether FLOSS or proprietary, is the development of note-taking applications. Over the past few years, they've bloomed like a hundred flowers – on the desktop, on the web, and for mobile devices.
That said, more than a few of those tools are over-engineered. They pack in a large number of moving parts and features, ones that the personal knowledge management (PKM for short) crowd has embraced. Many of us, though, aren't adherents of PKM. We don't need anything remotely that complex. We only need simple tools with which we can quickly jot down short (or not so short) thoughts, ideas, and the like.
Enter Iotas [1], an app for the Gnome desktop. It's billed as providing "distraction-free note taking via its mobile-first design." Iotas lives up to that billing. While simple, Iotas offers more than a few useful features along with a surprise or two. In this article, I look at how anyone can use Iotas to take and organize notes.
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