Tp-Note - Minimalistic note-taking

Save and edit your clipboard content as a note file

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Tp-Note is a note-taking-tool and a template system - freely available for Windows, MacOS and Linux - that consistently synchronizes the note’s meta-data with its filename. Tp-Note's main design goal is to convert some input text - usually provided by the system's clipboard - into a Markdown note file with a descriptive YAML header and a meaningful filename. Tp-Note collects various information about its environment and the clipboard and stores them in variables. New notes are created by filling these variables in predefined and customizable Tera-templates. TP-Note's default templates are written in Markdown and can be easily adapted to any other markup language if needed. After creating a new note, TP-Note launches the system's text editor and connects the default web browser to Tp- Note's internal Markdown/RestructuredText renderer and web server. The viewer detects note file changes and updates the rendition accordingly.

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Documentation

User documentation:

Developer documentation:

Source code

Repository:

Distribution

Tp-Note Microsoft Windows installer package

Tp-Note Debian/Ubuntu installer package

Various binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Tp-Note NetBSD

Other ressources

Installation

Depending on the availability of installer packages for your operating system, the installation process is more or less automated. For Windows users the fully automated installation package [tpnote-latest-x8664.msi] is available. For more information, please consult the Distribution section above and the [Installation section] in _Tp-Note's manual.

Upgrading

While upgrading Tp-Note, new features may cause a change in Tp-Notes's configuration file structure. In order not to lose the changes you made in this file, the installer does not replace it automatically with a new version. Instead, Tp-Note renames the old configuration file and prompts:

NOTE: unable to load, parse or write the configuration file
---
Reason:
        Bad TOML data: missing field `extension_default` at line 1 column 1!

Note: this error may occur after upgrading Tp-Note due
to some incompatible configuration file changes.

Tp-Note backs up the existing configuration
file and creates a new one with default values.

The configuration file backup is stored in the same directory as the newly created configuration file (cf. [Customization section] of Tp-Note's man-page).

Building

If the above precompiled binaries do not suite you, you can compile Tp-Note yourself.

  1. [Install Rust], e.g.

    ```sh curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

    sudo apt install build-essential
    ```

    A modern Linux desktop usually ships the required shared libraries. Here is a list extracted form a Debian binary:

    sh ldd target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/tpnote linux-vdso.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

  2. Download, compile and install Tp-Note:

    Building on Linux

    ```sh cargo install tpnote sudo cp ~/.cargo/bin/tpnote /usr/local/bin

    Copy icon

    sudo cp assets/tpnote.svg /usr/local/share/icons ```

    Unlike previous Linux versions (<= 1.19.13), Tp-Note displays errors and debug messages as notifications. This requires a Linux/BSD based desktop environment that follows the XDG specification, e.g. KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDC, Mate (and probably also most others).

    The use of notifications also removes former GTK dependencies. Anyway, if you prefer to see error messages on the console only, you can opt out notifications and message boxes. In this case all error messages are dumped on the console from where you started Tp-Note into stderr:

    sh cargo install --no-default-features \ --features read-clipboard,viewer,renderer,lang-detection tp-note sudo cp ~/.cargo/bin/tpnote /usr/local/bin

    Recommended Linux console and server version

    The full-featured version of Tp-Note depends on GUI libraries like Xlib that might not be available on a headless system. Either download the Musl version [x8664-unknown-linux-musl/release/tpnote] or compile _Tp-Note yourself without default features:

    sh cargo install --no-default-features --features renderer,lang-detection tp-note sudo cp ~/.cargo/bin/tpnote /usr/local/bin

    If Tp-Note's binary size if of concern, omit the lang-detection feature in the cargo invocation above. The lang-detection feature causes 95% of the final binary size because of its extensive language models.

    Building on Windows and macOS

    Build the full-featured version with:

    cargo install tpnote

    When building for Windows or macOS, it does not make sense to exclude the message-box feature, because - under Windows and macOS - it does not rely on the notification library. Instead, it uses direct OS-API calls for popping up alert boxes. As these calls have no footprint in binary size or speed, always keep the message-box feature compiled in.

    See also the user manual for a more detailed installation description.

Cross compilation

Debian makes it easy to cross-compile for foreign architectures. Here some examples:

This project follows [Semantic Versioning].

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