michael, spy and others: I’ve found tomboy to rock for quickly letting me jot notes, keep tabs on what I’ve got next on my plate, etc. When a topic needs further detail, it’s a quick highlight, click “Link” and I’ve got a new note linked to from my main “gentoo work” note on which I can note more details about the given task.
To give you a little taste, here’s the two notes which recently have seen the most light of day.
Having note-taking be so quick, easy to search and bring up (tomboy runs as either a gnome panel applet, or as a notification area icon) lets me stop worrying about what tool i’m using to keep notes, and just focus on the content of the notes themselves.
You can emerge the slightly older tomboy-0.2.2 on stable x86 right now, I’m going to be marking tomboy-0.3.1 stable soon, pending resolution of one or two more bugs.