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A# JNotes

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Description:

JNotes is a free desktop application which is built for lookup (quick & frequent access) notes.
Now you can view your synced notes here: jnotes-web
Its perfect for day-to-day lookup notes at work:
Title: “shared drive location to success” Value: “\Some\impossible\to\remember\path” Content: “release the files when done!”

Or you can have a notebook for learning Dutch where you store something like word-meaning-setences:
Title: “snel” Value: “fast” Content: “JNotes is snel -> JNotes is fast”

As a developer I even have a notebook for my favourite GIT commands and a notebook for my favourite DB queries:
Title: “squash” Value: “git rebase -i HEAD~X” Content: “use fixup instead of squash”.

Purpose:

There are several applications to store Notes, but they are more like “title with body” or “content with multiple tags”. JNotes offers one of a kind: “title with value and with content”.
Usually I used to use OneNote and have a table with 3 columns to store this kind of data but I had the following issues:

  1. I have tons of pages in multiple sections of OneNote, and to access my frequent notes I had to switch from my working page to another page and it was always difficult to return to where I was.
  2. When sharing my screen my passwords were visible.
  3. It was difficult to share my notes with others or other devices, or simply export to xls.
    But most importantly I wished to build a customizable and dedicated notes application for lookup data.

Why JNotes:

JNotes Windows

Build and run (for Developers)

ensure JAVA_HOME points to Java verion >=11
mvn clean install  
java -jar JNotes.jar   
OR  
mvn clean javafx:run (For this, its good to have javafx sdk installed)

Shortcuts:

Ctrl+N - New note  
Ctrl+E - Edit note  
Ctrl+S - Save note changes. (also for in-line edits)  
Ctrl+D - Delete selected notes  
Ctrl+X - Export Notebook to file  
Ctrl+I - Import file to current Notebook  
Ctrl+F - Takes you to search field  
Ctrl+C - Copies the selected cell value  
Ctrl+Y - Sync settings (with Cloud)  
ESC    - Closes diaglogs/popups, clears search  
Ctrl+Q - Quit JNotes

Tech Details:

Features in progress

Developer: Joy Chakravarty

joy.chakravarty84@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joychak/

License:

Copyright (C) 2020  Joy Chakravarty [joy.chakravarty84@gmail.com]  

JNotes is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.  

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.  

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>