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.

See debian/control for Debian and Ubuntu package names.

• Python (>= 3.4): https://www.python.org
• GTK (>= 3.18): https://www.gtk.org
• GtkSourceView (>= 3.18): https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView
• WebKitGTK (>= 2.16, not needed for Windows): https://webkitgtk.org
• PyYAML (>= 3.10): https://pyyaml.org

Recommended libraries:

• PyEnchant for spell checking (>= 1.6): https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/

$ ./run

See appveyor.yml for setup instructions, then run

C:\path\to\rednotebook> python3 rednotebook/journal.py

We recommend to install RedNotebook with your package manager or to download the Windows installer. Follow the steps below only if your distribution has no RedNotebook package or you want to use a newer RedNotebook version.

Install RedNotebook in the global site-packages directory and make rednotebook command available globally:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
# Change into RedNotebook directory.
sudo pip3 install .

Install RedNotebook locally under ~/.local/lib/python3.x/site-packages/ and create ~/.local/bin/rednotebook executable:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
# Change into RedNotebook directory.
pip3 install --user .

• The authors of the libraries listed under 'Requirements'.
• Ciaran for creating the RedNotebook icon.
• The txt2tags team (https://txt2tags.org) for their markup conversion tool.
• Dieter Verfaillie for his elib.intl module (https://github.com/dieterv/elib.intl)

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!