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Whether it’s physical sticky notes, text documents you save on your desktop or something else, most of take notes. Reminders to do things or snippets of information you might need later.While the latter method of text documents on your desktop is a way in which you can keep notes on your computer, it’s not all that efficient and useful... Enter Tomboy
"Here is my notebook on how to create an extension for firefox. The following example was tested with firefox 2.0.0.11. This extension is used to insert a few default templates (such as Template:Infobox_scientist ) when editing a biography on Wikipedia. Infoboxes are used , for example by DBPedia, to create a structured version of wikipedia..."
This is a review of three of the most popular notes-taking applications for Linux: BasKet, Tomboy and KNotes. I included the screenshots below the reviews, at the end of the article.
BasKet
In my opinion, this is the most powerful and beautiful notes application I've ever seen. The last stable version is 1.0.3.1 for KDE3, but a port is in the works for KDE4 too.
"Firefox profiles allows you to create multiple personas to use when starting Firefox. If you have Firefox, then you’ve already been using Firefox profiles, you just didn’t know it. Most people will probably only need the default profile and will never create others, but for web developers this is a must. So what do you do? It’s easy..."
"Prism 0.9 has finally been released. [...] The big news for this release is Prism for Firefox, a full blown Prism and a Firefox extension all in one. This means that you can now easily “make” web applications directly from Firefox. In addition, Prism now uses Firefox as its runtime, so you don’t need to download the XULRunner runtime..."
As someone who writes for a living, I tend to take a lot of notes. For a while, used an application called Tomboy for that purpose. It was a nifty little app, but it ran a bit slowly for my tastes. I heard about Gnote, which is a rewrite of Tomboy in C++. Of course, I decided to give it a try.
Ubiquity is a very popular Firefox extension that adds a flexible natural language command line to Firefox, and is developed by the folks at Mozilla. It's now out in a more useful new version, with a sleeker look, a more stable core, and the ability to create good looking skins.
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Popular Firefox extension Tab Mix Plus has finally released an update supporting Firefox 3, meaning that the tabbed browsing enhancements you'd come to know and love with TMP in Firefox 2 are now ready for your updated Firefox install
