If You Often Need To Write Short Notes Down…
Posted by Tanasije Gjorgoski on April 14, 2009
Yesterday I uploaded an early beta of my new toy application called SidekickNotes.
The idea behind the application is this. You are on your computer, and you want to write something down fast, and then return to your work. You move the cursor to the right edge of the screen and a simple combined note browser/note editor pops up, allowing you to start writting immediately. Just move away, and you are back again to whatever you were working. (For now it works just with in one monitor configuration)
SikekickNotes is an open source app.
If anybody wants to check it out you can download it here (UPDATE:Changed the default hosting to google code). For now it works just on Windows, and it requires java installed (it should notify you if you don’t have java installed). Just unpack the rar file somewhere, and start the exe. It should run (you should see a console window first) - move the cursor to the right edge, and wait for a moment, and the window should appear. Move away and it should disappear.
The current version of the app. includes
- basic editing capabilities (like undo/redo, font style, size)
- basic spellcheck abilities
- searching , with snippets being shown in the results. You can specify complex search queries using “?” and “*” as joker signs for one or multiple letters. “+” and “-” before a word mean that the word must be and must not be in the word. “~” means sounds like (E.g. “term~”), but when used after quotes, it means in vicinity of, e.g. “term1 term2″~10 means term1 should be within 10 words of term2
- simple math evaluation. You can write some math expression in the editor, and then press Ctrl+Enter, and you will get the result in the editor.
- incremental search within note. Use ctrl+f, and start typing. Then use up and down buttons to find other occurences of the text.
Anyway, check it out… Some people might find this useful. I do. Actually I use it so much, that when the old version that I made 10 years ago stopped working on Vista, I sit to wrote a new “more advenced” version right away. And if you have some ideas/requests, write them down (either here, or on sourceforge.
EDIT: And some screenshots:
And another:
