Sean Palmer has released some source code for two note-taking programs. Note-taking is one of those holy grail-type ideas for many coders. We all jot lots of things down and want to come up with an easy way of keeping track of these things.
I know that I've started at least three programs which were going to help me with all of my pieces of paper lying on my desk. I currently use roughly 3x5 notepads to write things down. The larger pads were too big and anything smaller would be basically a Post-It note.
My ideal system would allow me to write from anywhere on my computer and also be able to look for things anywhere. The problem with Stickies is that it's on the Desktop so if you have lots of windows open, you can't really get to it. One idea would be to write the app such that it was a Service which would make it available from the Apple Menu anywhere. Of course, then I get into the fact that I want something which can be run from the command-line instead of having to start up another application.
As you can see, I haven't come up with a solution which works for me yet. Don't worry though, I'm sure I'll start working on at least one more idea for taking notes before the end of the year.
Posted by Josh at September 26, 2003 11:55 PM | TrackBack