Notebook V2.2.0 Rises From The Dead

Last updated on: October 29, 2014 at 8:00 am by willduquette

Notebook V2.2.0 Rises From The Dead 2014-10-28T23:33:13-05:00 willduquette

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Many years ago (in 2005) I released a piece of software called Notebook v2.1.3. I’d been working on it for four or five years by that time. As to what it did…I assume everyone reading this knows what a Wiki is? Notebook was a kind of personal wiki, for use on your desktop or laptop computer. Or, if this helps, think of it as a precursor to something like EverNote, only without the cloud. We didn’t have clouds in those days; we had to make our own rain.

I went on to trying something rather more ambitious with Notebook v3, but it never came to fruition, and eventually I abandoned it. Recently, though, I’ve been needing a project other than Quill to test Quill with; and I thought it would be fun to revive Notebook v2.1.3 and try to bring it up to speed. Tcl/Tk has grown and evolved quite a lot since then, and I’ve almost ten years more experience programming in it than I had then; and I’m somewhat curious to see what a Notebook v4.0 might look like, especially bearing in mind that I’ve no particular need to make it backward compatible.

The first fruits of this effort can be found on the Notebook release page at GitHub. I’m calling it Notebook 2.2.0, and after a few hours work it appears to be running adequately. I don’t say there aren’t bugs, but I’ve been able to do a fair amount with it without running into any.

If you’re interested, there are builds of Notebook for Windows, 32 and 64-bit Linux, and OSX. Note that on OSX you’ll probably have to invoke it from the Terminal window; Quill doesn’t build “.app” applications yet. If you find any problems, you can write them up on the Notebook issue tracker at GitHub.

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