Gnote

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Open-source desktop note-taking application

title: "Gnote" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["free-note-taking-software", "gnome-applications", "note-taking-software-that-uses-gtk", "personal-wikis"] description: "Open-source desktop note-taking application" topic_path: "general/free-note-taking-software" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnote" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Open-source desktop note-taking application ::

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Field	Value
title	Gnote
screenshot	Gnote 3.10.3.png
caption	Gnote 3.13 under Ubuntu MATE
developer	Aurimas Černius
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview version
latest preview date
operating system	Linux
programming language	C++
genre	Notetaking application
license	GPL-3.0-or-later
website
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Gnote is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application written for Linux, cloned by Hubert Figuière from Tomboy.{{cite web |url = http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2009/07/27/680-why-i-did-write-gnote |title= Why I did write Gnote? |date= July 27, 2009 |access-date= September 4, 2009 |first = Hubert |last = Figuière

History and uses

Gnote was created as a clone of Tomboy written in C++, to remove the dependency on Mono. Its release caused a minor controversy when the creator was accused of having an anti-Mono agenda. This prompted him to explain that Gnote was written as an exercise in porting Mono applications and that it provides a note-taking application for environments that are unable to fit the Mono framework. The program is included in Fedora,{{cite web |url = https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gnote |title = Fedora Package Database -- gnote |access-date = September 6, 2009 |archive-date = August 19, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230819210436/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gnote |url-status = dead |url = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes#GNOME_2.28 |title = Fedora 12 Alpha release notes |date = August 27, 2009 |access-date = September 6, 2009

Some Linux-compatible hardware platforms are not officially supported by Mono, and thus cannot run Tomboy or other Mono software. On these platforms and any other, Gnote can be used as a drop-in replacement for Tomboy.

Since version 3.5, Gnote has used GNOME version numbering scheme.

Features

Some of the editing features supported by Gnote include:

Link to other notes
Style text (bold, italic, strikeout, highlight)
Change font size
Create bulleted lists
Undo and redo

Plugins

Gnote supports plugins that add functionality:

Print individual notes
Sticky Notes importer
Export single notes to HTML
Bugzilla links
Fixed width text
Tomboy importer
Backlinks, to see which notes link to the current note
Underline text
Insert timestamp
Table of content

References

"Gnote 3.5.0 changelog".

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