Notebook Home Page

What's New?

4/10/2005: Notebook has a new home! Starting immediately, you can find Notebook at the new Notebook Wiki!

What's Old

What follows is the previous content of this page. See the Notebook Wiki for the latest information.

The current stable version is Notebook V2.0.3, released on 11 January 2004. The current development version is Notebook V2.1.0, released on 19 March 2005.

3/19/2005

Version 2.1.0 of Notebook is now available! This is a development release; it's also the version I currently use. Please report any problems you have to will@wjduquette.com, or on the Notebook Projectforum. Notebook 2.1.0 is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows and for Mac OS X (with X11); it's also available for most other platforms as a "starkit". See README.txt for installation instructions.

1/11/2004

Version 2.0.3 of Notebook is now available! This is the new stable release. Please report any problems you have to will@wjduquette.com, or on the Notebook Projectforum. Notebook 2.0.3 is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows and for Mac OS X (with X11); it's also available for most other platforms as a "starkit".

12/30/2003

Version 2.0.2 of Notebook is now available! This is a "beta" release, but there should be no catastrophic bugs. Please report any problems you have to will@wjduquette.com, or on the Notebook Projectforum. Notebook 2.0.2 is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows and for Mac OS X (with X11); it's also available for most other platforms as a "starkit"..

12/30/2003

Come visit the Notebook Projectforum! The Projectforum is an advanced Wiki dedicated to the Notebook application and its users; it's the best place to leave suggestions, post bug reports, and share your User Code.

12/30/2003

Version 2.0.1 of Notebook is now available! This is a "beta" release, but there should be no catastrophic bugs. Please report any problems you have to will@wjduquette.com, or on the Notebook Projectforum. Notebook 2.0.1 is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows and for Mac OS X (with X11); it's also available for most other platforms as a "starkit".

07/20/2003

Version 1.1 of Notebook is now available! This is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows and for Mac OS X (with X11). There are a few new features, and a couple of bug fixes.

06/28/2003

Version 1.0 of Notebook is now available! This is a starkit/tclkit based application, available as a stand-alone executable for MS Windows. Most of the changes are internal; however, there are a few new features.

08/23/2002

There is now a Notebook mailing list. See below.

08/22/2002

Uploaded the final release of Notebook 0.9. V0.9 adds better document handling, improved page editing, and allows you to extend Notebook with "safe" user code that can't easily corrupt the application; it also includes numerous internal improvements.

08/17/2002

Uploaded a pre-release beta of Notebook 0.9. See below.

07/29/2002

You can now see some screen shots of Notebook in action.

07/22/2002

Released a bug patch of notebook.tcl, fixing the initial start-up bug. See below.

07/20/2002

Release of Notebook 0.8. New features include better on-line help, user-selectable font and color preferences, and magic extensibility features.

07/13/2002

Initial creation of this page.

Notebook Overview

Notebook is a personal notebook application. It's for storing notes, to-do lists, daily logs, things you want to remember, neat ideas you might do something with some day, cute things your children said, bad jokes--all the kinds of things you would write down now if only you had a place to put them where you'd remember to look for them.

But Notebook is more than that. It's almost like a personal website. Whenever you enter notes into your Notebook, you effortlessly create hyperlinks to them, just like in a Web Page. The links allow you to find things again; and if they fail you there's a "search" box that will find every page containing the information you desire and an "Index" page that lists all the pages you create

If you've ever used a Wiki on the Web, Notebook is much like a personal Wiki. But it goes beyond that, because it's programmable. You can embed "Magic Buttons" in any page that do almost anything you can think of. And you can put "Embedded Macros" in any page to automatically include text into your pages.

Note: I'm not aware of any bugs, but it's likely that some are lurking; also, I have a list of projected enhancements that's a mile long. If you give Notebook a try, please don't be shy about letting me know about any problems you find, or enhancements you'd like.

Notebook Mailing List

If you have comments or questions about Notebook, or simply want to tell me that you've taken a look at it, you can always e-mail me at will@wjduquette.com. But if you're using Notebook on a regular basis, I hope you'll join the Notebook mailing list. It's a discussion forum for all things Notebook. You can join it by visiting the Notebook Mailing List page and signing up.

Once you're signed up, you can post messages to the list by sending them to notebook@lists.wjduquette.com. (The e-mail you get back from the list server will suggest you use notebook-wjduquette.com@lists.wjduquette.com, but the shorter form works just as well.

I hope to hear from you on-line!

Notebook Wiki

Note: Notebook Projectforum has been replaced by the Notebook Wiki as the best place to post suggestions and bug reports, and to share your User Code. Come contribute!

Notebook files and documentation

The documentation for Notebook is found in Notebook's on-line help.

• Look at some (rather old) Notebook Screen Shots.
• README.txt
• Current Development Version: Notebook V2.1.0
• Windows executable: notebook210.exe
• Mac OS X executable: notebook2.1.0 (requires X11)
• Starkit: notebook2.1.0.kit
• Source: notebook2.1.0.tar.gz
• Current Stable Version: Notebook V2.0.3:
• Windows executable: notebook203.exe
• Mac OS X executable: notebook2.0.3 (requires X11)
• Starkit: notebook2.0.3.kit
• Source: notebook2.0.3.tar.gz
• Previous Stable Version: Notebook V1.1:
• Windows executable: notebook11.exe
• Mac OS X executable: notebook1.1 (requires X11)
• Starkit: notebook1.1.kit
• Source: notebook1.1.tar.gz
• license.txt

Older Downloads

• Download Notebook 0.9: notebook09.zip
• Download Notebook 0.9: notebook0.9.tar.gz
• Download Notebook 0.8 bug patch: notebook.tcl. Drop this file in your Notebook installation directory in place of the original V0.8 file.
• Download Notebook 0.8: notebook08.zip
• Download Notebook 0.8: notebook0.8.tar.gz
• Download Notebook 0.7: notebook07.zip
• Download Notebook 0.7: notebook0.7.tar.gz

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions about Notebook, feel free to contact me at will@wjduquette.com--or join the Notebook Mailing List (see above), or visit the Notebook Projectforum website.