neat little program

[eddie]

I found this little program in the repos called ZIM. Kind of nice I think I will use it instead of gnote.

[akuma624]

real men use vim ....

[doublejoon]

real men use vim ....

Real men use whatever they want to use

[Gomer_X]

I just run apache and a wiki. Does a pretty good job of storing random notes, it's easy to use and I can access it anywhere on the network.

Admittedly configuring apache and a wiki is difficult for some people but for me it's one of the first things I do after I install X. I'm not sure how anyone lives without apache.

[eddie]

There are a ton of web apps for biz and personal use so you do not have to install them on a local machine. On non-copyrighted sites, I find myself borrowing code more and more for utilities such as different kinds of calculators to make web pages for our server, With a web server you do not have to remember what program is installed on what machine. Even bookmarks and the like are on the server. Even of the server is shut down, you can always do a remote wake up if you need to (hardware permitting).

Back to the subject. Doing an "apt-cache search console" and you will find a boatload of command line apps that can be used either on a low end machine or on a server where you are using command line access. Examples: We run firefly on our server and sometimes the tags could be better on the mp3 files. I just started using eyeD3 to edit mp3 tags while accessing the server via the command line. Linc suggested mutt on his website which now going to be a staple on my traveling p1 laptop. I am beginning to prefer using bash and php-cli over python. There is no end to the goodies.

[akuma624]

Gomer_X >>

You are not alone in the use of a wiki for notes and having a web server run this for you. In the RoR community - the program "instiki" is well known and does exactly what you mentioned ... I'm not for sure but I think it was coded by the "inventor" of the Rails framework ...

more info here: http://www.instiki.org/show/HomePage

[eddie]

Does it require rails and or a lot of extra software? Someone recommended habari to me as an alternative.

[akuma624]

unfortunately, yes ... instiki would require you to down load all of ruby and the corresponding rails framework.

cool thing is that you "own" this web based app ... unlike the g-universe that most people are now using ... seems like the cloud is going to own everything some day ...