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No obscure HTML tags to learn. I can literally just type. I find it dramatically increases the speed at which I can write and organise whatever it is I’m waffling on about. I’m a fan of markdown, the popular text-to-html markup language. This command will prompt you to add the relevant repos and runtimes needed to use the app, so do pay attention to the output.

Boostnote review linux install#

Since Ubuntu doesn’t handle one-click Flatpak buttons (sigh) you will need to install it the old fashioned way (this is assuming you have Flatpak installed): flatpak install -from This version comes with all the dependencies it needs packaged up neatly inside - no fuss, no faff! Notes Up is available to install a Flatpak app through Flathub.

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You can download Notes Up 1.3 for 64-bit Ubuntu. Then you can download and install Notes Up either using the PPA above (if you’re on 16.04) or, if you’re on 17.10, by downloading and installing the PPA package manually. So, instead, and this also works on Ubuntu 17.10, you’ll first need to download libgranite4, libgranite-common and contractor separately, and install them.

Boostnote review linux update#

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/notes-up sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install -up There is an official Notes Up PPA that packages the app for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (only) - but the PPA does not not contain the libgranite dependencies (yay, fragmentation) the app needs to run. Like what you see? Well, here’s where things get a little **annoying**. Install Notes Up Markdown Editor on Ubuntu Notes Up also lacks any extra bells and whistles that writers would find useful, like a word/character count a live, real-time preview and the ability to tag or group notes in a more flexible way (e.g, using tags). It’s useful …If you want to make a PDF. But a ‘ save note as…’ option would do wonders, as would support for opening markdown files (.md) using the app. , poor padding of the sidebar, notes lists, and header bar icons no delineation between sections under some themes, and so on.Īdwaita suited the app best, as did Arc Darker (pictured in this post) - but should I really have to switch GTK theme to make the app usable?īut the biggest missive is that the app will only export/save notes as a PDF. Even Gedit can go full-screen with zero distractions.Īnd despite being a native Linux app designed for Linux users using Linux desktops the app looks terrible with most GTK themes, e.g.

Boostnote review linux full#

‘In many ways Notes Up is worse for markdown than a regular text editor’įor example, there’s no immersive writing canvas (see Typora for that), and it lacks any kind of “distraction free” or full screen environment.

Sadly there are a couple of glaring gaps in the Notes Up feature set that, in many ways, make it worse for markdown than a regular text editor.

Create and organise notes using notebooks.

“Preview” and “Write” would be a much more descriptive labels. At first glance I thought ‘view’ and ‘edit’ were regular menu items. You can get an instant preview of how your document is looking by by pressing the ‘view’ text label in the header bar. The text editor portion has a formatting toolbar (though many with odd icon choices) letting you select text to apply text formatting (e.g., bold, italic) or insert lists, pictures and links. And on the right of the window is the text editor itself.

Next to it is a column listing any notes you’ve added to the selected notebook. The left-hand sidebar displays a list of ‘notebooks’. Like Bear, Notes Up uses a multi-panel layout. It has a clean, straight-forward interface, a couple of nice features (including a revealable markdown cheat sheet), and is easy to install as a Flatpak app from Flathub.Īt first glance the layout reminded me of a popular markdown editor for macOS called “ Bear“: Notes Up is a Markdown editor for Linux desktop.