Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note-taking software

Posted by Carrot
Sep 7, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Thanks everyone for your replies and suggestions.

Our idea is to make the application as open source as possible, in order to attract the trust and confidence of users.

Do you believe there is a need for this type of software? A market? An opportunity for us to do something good, make something good? (and not go broke :)

Our technical team (which I am not part of) will carefully examine OneNote and try to figure out if its features are difficult to implement. I used it intensively several years ago and liked it very much prior to my switch to Linux.

I am very impressed with InfoQube as well. (despite finding it quite difficult to learn) Do you think it would be better to go with:

- a more simple OneNote style application (I assume the way it stores data makes it accessible to the user is simpler than the InfoQube/ ECCO model,

- an Surfulator/ InfoQube/ ECCO model in which information items are database objects and can be organized both on a hierarchical tree and independently through tags. Users have a lot of flexibility regarding structuring their information.

Again, all suggestions will be appreciated. We don’t really have a very strong commercial/ profit motive in making this software- we want to make a full featured open-source note-taker for Linux (as our main goal but also cross-platform) just don’t want to go broke doing it.