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When we talk about rich text writing and note-taking software, you probably think of EverNote, OneNote, etc. Although there are many such programs available today, most of them are designed for ordinary users, not many for technical people. Because they don’t have a lot of features that technicians (especially programmers) need. At this point, you can try CherryTree.
CherryTree is an excellent free and open-source hierarchical note-taking software for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms (written with Python), developed by Giuseppe Penone and Evgenii Gurianov from United Kindom. It is very professional and powerful, and is considered one of the best note-taking tools for programmers, as well as an open-source alternative to many commercial note-taking programs.
CherryTree has a concise user interface, supports unlimited levels and classifications, supports rich text editing, code highlighting and image processing, supports multi-level titles, embedded images, embedded tables, embedded code boxes, supports a variety of programming languages, stores data using SQLite or XML, supports password protection, supports import/export data from NoteCase, KeepNote, Knowit, Tomboy, TuxCards, Treepad, Leo and other note-taking software, can create internal links to other notes, and more.
// Key Features //
- rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
- syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
- images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
- latex math equations rendering
- embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
- multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
- simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
- codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
- execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog
- alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
- hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
- spell check (using gspell)
- intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
- cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
- copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
- print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
- find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
- replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
- iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
- import from html file, import from folder of html files
- import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
- import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
- export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
- tree nodes drag and drop
- automatic link to web page if writing the URL
- automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]
// Prompts //
- Cherrytree supports multiple languages, but the compatibility is bad. When saving a file, do not contain non-English characters in the path and file name. Otherwise, an error may be displayed indicating that the file cannot be found and the file cannot be opened.
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