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- Rhinote -

Rhinote is a simple Python/Tkinter script which provides virtual "sticky-notes" on your desktop. It's handy for jotting down quick notes or holding copied text that you plan to paste elsewhere later. Text can be cut, copied, and pasted; and notes can be saved (as plain text) and viewed and/or edited later, in Rhinote or any other text-editing application. While many such applications exist for virtually all computing platforms, Rhinote is extremely simple, lightweight, and "keyboard-friendly."

Free and Open Source software licensed under the GNU General Public License, Rhinote should run on any computer that has Python 2.3 or later and its Tkinter module installed. It has been successfully run on various distributions of Linux, as well as Windows 98SE, ME, and XP. If the official Python build for Windows works with Vista, then Rhinote should as well (though it has not been tested; I would appreciate feedback).

If you don't have Python installed, you can download it from www.python.org.
Rhinote requires Python in order to run.

Rhinote's documentation (also included in the download packages).

Downloads
The latest version of Rhinote is 0.7.1. Either archive format provides both the Linux and Windows versions:


ALSO: KiyuKo, creator of the software that powers my weblog, thought highly enough of Rhinote to graciously create and maintain a Debian Linux package (it is also known to work with Ubuntu Dapper Drake [6.06]):


AND, as of version 0.7, Rhinote is available from the official Ubuntu repositories:

Rhinote 0.7 for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)
Rhinote 0.7 for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)
Rhinote 0.7 for Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)

(It's also available via Synaptic/Adept/apt-get -- make sure you have the "universe" repository enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list)

An Alternative: If you like the general idea of Rhinote but would prefer something in more of a GTK vein, check out KiyuKo's Gina. The author describes it as a 90% feature-complete clone of Rhinote, and you may prefer its relative widget standardization versus Rhinote.