Hello,
I upgraded my Arch box today and was surprised to see that the knotes package is missing. It seems that knotes has been archived, which would mean it won’t be developed anymore. So Arch packagers dropped it. It was available in 24.05.0, no longer in 24.08.0. knotes does not build either with Arch’s last PKGBUILD.
I’ve got many such notes! Can someone advise a nice solution to recover them cleanly? Is there any other KDE note taking app?
Thank you.
Found kjots available. It works on the same previous notes. It’s not sticky notes but… nothing is lost.
The recommended replacement for KNotes is Marknote - KDE-Anwendungen It supports import of notes from KNote and KJots
Thanks for the links. Marknotes seems nice, though some knotes are wrongly imported. No big deal, I can handle that.
Thanks, I wondered myself.
But how do I add a Note Widget to the Desktop like I have done with Knotes?
I just have reserved a little place on my least used monitor to quick take a short note and occasionally change its contend if necessary.
Now with Marknote (but the old Knotes 24.05 still installed) I still see only the Knotes, or like it is called in German “Haftnotzen”, Widget nothing to achieve the same thing with Marknote.
Hi, Marknote maintainer here, do you have some examples of badly imported notes?
You can add a ‘Sticky note’ from the many widgets available for the desktop or for a panel (not sure of the right wording, roughly translating). It survives a session logout/login.
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Thanks.
The German “Haftnotiz” translates literary to “Sticky note” but that has the KNotes icon (and if I type “Haftnotiz” in the Startmenu only “KNotes - Haftnotizen” pops up). I did not find any other “Sticky note” Widget so far. Maybe I have to uninstall KNotes because Widget name conflicts? But with KNotes no longer available that would mean to loose that feature completely if that is not the case.
Tinkering around I managed so far to put the thing called Notebook (that contains the Marknote Notes) on the Desktop, that behaves like a drawer/directory.
Or to put a “Note.md” from said Notebook on the Desktop that behaves like a Textfile (opens in Kate). Nothing where I can directly type my Note into it and read without having to open anything like my current, presumably KNotes, “Sticky note” Widget behaves.
No.
You should go through the process to add a widget to the desktop. A right click on the desktop ( or on the taskbar to add a widget there) should give you a menu entry to go in ‘Edit’ mode. A long list of widgets would appear, typing ‘Note’ in French selects the widget that you can drag on the desktop. It’s the standard way to place any available widget on the desktop.
Please check this screen recording (could not add it inline here).
Okay, I just jumped into the cold water, uninstalled KNotes (restarted everything) and the “Haftnotiz” Widget is still here. Looks like they shared the application Icon and the same Name (in German translation) only for fun and to confuse me.
Thanks.
Thank you for informing us users. Actually, I didn’t realise that ATNotes had disappeared from the system tray, even though I have a lot of notes with KNotes (hidden). For a couple of years now, I had to close KNotes and reopen it to show the saved notes. Otherwise, it would load no notes (despite they are there).
But no wonder it disappears. I have opened several threads about problems (like the one mentioned above) and important improvements, but they have NEVER been answered or taken into account.
I was a user of ATNotes (which still works) for Windows and one of the best things it had was the ability to send notes between users who used the application and had it open. Since I switched to Linux years ago, KNotes was the only one that supported (with difficulties) sending notes between users. But the begged-for improvements never came and the bugs were never fixed, so thanks for reporting on Marknotes.
I’ll take a look at it, although I doubt it will support note sending and I’ll have to resort to using the ATNotes program with Wine.