https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook

RedNotebook is a cross-platform journal
https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook

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RedNotebook is a cross-platform journal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook
• Owner: jendrikseipp
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-06-30T08:17:51.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-22T12:05:19.000Z (20 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-03T19:06:04.166Z (8 days ago)
• Topics: cross-platform, desktop, diary, gtk, hashtags, journal, offline, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://rednotebook.app
• Size: 33.3 MB
• Stars: 498
• Watchers: 25
• Forks: 112
• Open Issues: 46
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# RedNotebook

RedNotebook is a modern desktop journal. It lets you format, tag and

search your entries. You can also add pictures, links and customizable

templates, spell check your notes, and export to plain text, HTML,

Latex or PDF.

**Installers for Linux and Windows**:

[rednotebook.app/downloads.html](https://www.rednotebook.app/downloads.html)

## Requirements

Needed for running RedNotebook:

  * GTK (3.18+): https://www.gtk.org

  * GtkSourceView (3.0+): https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView

  * Python (3.8+): https://www.python.org

  * PyYAML (3.10+): https://pyyaml.org

  * WebKitGTK (2.16+): https://webkitgtk.org (only on Linux and macOS)

  * PyEnchant for spell checking (1.6+): https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/ (optional)

Needed for installing RedNotebook:

  * GNU gettext: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext

  * Setuptools (60.0+): https://pypi.org/project/setuptools

## Run from source

Install all dependencies:

  * Linux/macOS: [run-tests.yml](.github/workflows/run-tests.yml)

  * Windows: [appveyor.yml](appveyor.yml)

Start RedNotebook:

  * Linux/macOS: `python3 rednotebook/journal.py`

  * Windows: `py rednotebook/journal.py`

## Set up pre-commit hooks

Install [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/), then run `pre-commit install`.

## Run tests

Install [tox](https://tox.wiki), then run `tox`.

## Thanks to

  * The authors of the libraries listed under 'Requirements'.

  * Ciaran for creating the RedNotebook icon.

  * The [txt2tags](https://txt2tags.org) team for their markup conversion tool.

  * Dieter Verfaillie for his [elib.intl](https://github.com/dieterv/elib.intl) module.

  * Maximilian Köhl for his [pygtkspellcheck](https://github.com/koehlma/pygtkspellcheck) project.

  * The Weblate team for hosting [translations for RedNotebook](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/rednotebook/).

## License notes

RedNotebook is published under the GPLv2+. Since it bundles code

released under the LGPLv3+, the resulting work is licensed under the

GPLv3+. See `debian/copyright` for detailed license information.

Enjoy!