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Anyone searching for a note taking application
About cherrytree
A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe). The user manual online html and downloadable ctb written by Ellie Borden. Syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages. Embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk. Hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders). Cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables. Copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text.
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www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
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