zim - a desktop wiki for Ubuntu Linux
Posted by admin on August 14th, 2008 
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Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. This tool is intended to keep track of TODO lists or serve as a personal scratch book.
Install zim in ubuntu
sudo aptitude install zim
This will complete the zim installation.
Using Zim
If you want to open zim Go to Applications—>Accessories—>Zim Desktop Wiki
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to click on add
Now you need to enter the name and directory to store your pages
You need to select your page click on open
Here you need to enter your content and save
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August 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
How does this compare to using Tomboy Notes (on Ubuntu/Gtk) ?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
IMHO it is much better than tomboy, it has more features, such as linking to images, better formating tools, integration with calendar, and a few more.
I started using it as note taking application, instead of tomboy because I’ve decided to remove all mono apps from my computer.
One thing I do miss in Zim that tomboy has is the ability to minimize it to the Notification Area and the ability to use it as a panel applet.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Actually, you can make Zim to minimize to Notification Area. You just need to enable TrayIcon plugin from the (Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins) and restart it. Also you can can add Zim as a starter applet to panel or make it start as deamon, just needs a little bit of work.
Compared to Tomboy, besides Zim supports images in notes, it also have an built-in Equation Editor with a TeX-like syntax and exporting to html.
One more thing, new 0.26 version is coming with bazzar version control in addition to SVN. So versioning will be much more easier for every one.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am
I don’t know which version of Ubuntu you are using, but Hardy has no “Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins”. It also doesn’t have a System -> Preferences -> Plugins. You can, however add applications to the panel by right-clicking on the panel, then selecting Add-To-Panel, Application Launcher, then picking Zim (or whatever) from the launch menu folder you have it in.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I would rather (and in fact I have) install Mediawiki to be used only on localhost to act as a repository for all my scattered thoughts and notes.
Greetings,
Mikko
August 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
And the later (0.25) version from Debian installs just fine…. (Ubuntu has 0.23)
Thanks for this…
@Ben2K - once a notebook isopened the plugins are accessible through the Edit -> Preferences menus
ryts
August 26th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
If you are looking for another note-taking app similar to Zim and Tomboy, you may want to check out TakeNote http://rasm.ods.org/takenote. It’s younger in development but has a few differences in how to display notes (treeview, listview) that might be useful.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
TiddlyWiki rules. Easy to use, functionally rich, handy for carrying around on a USB stick. No install required. Cross platform.