yank 0.2.0 by Michael Hußmann <m.hussmann@home.ins.de> INTRODUCTION ------------ A long time ago I used to write down my notes on paper and stored them in folders which worked pretty well. After getting used to computing notekeeping took place in files which were organized in directories and could be grepped in order to find the stored information. Yank is my attempt to improve this by using a program to operate on notes (add, edit, delete, search, sort etc.) and have some convenience (it is possible to perform these actions with the standard unix tools and it works well but I had some time on my hands and wanted to play with gnome). NEWS ---- News about yank can be found in the file 'NEWS' and on the yank homepage [1]. FEATURES -------- - note organization in a tree structure - 3 different types of notes - sortable todolist - drag & drop support - searching for regular expressions or substrings - saves xml (with optional compression) - basic plugin system REQUIREMENTS ------------ Yank uses gnome for the user interface and therefore it requires everything a normal gnome program requires. Gnome can be found on [2]. Yank also needs at least libxml-1.8.0 [3] to compile. Gnome-print is not required but used if a version >= 0.24 is found during compilation. INSTALLATION ------------ The standard installation files for programs using autoconf come with this distribution which covers nearly everything. On most systems building and installing will look like this (I skip the process of extracting and using cd since you've obviously done it if you're reading this text): $ ./configure && make [..] $ su root # make install [..] # exit UPGRADING FROM EARLIER VERSIONS ------------------------------- UPGRADING FROM VERSIONS BEFORE 0.2.0 ------------------------------------ The internal representation of dates (number of days since 01.01.1970) has been changed to the standard time_t (number of seconds since start of epoch) which requires minor changes in the used file-format. Old files can be converted by using: $ ./utils/yankconv-0.1.5-0.2.0 < old.file > new.file You can blame me for being lasy because there's no automatic detection of that in yank but remember that you're using alpha quality software. :) UPGRADING FROM VERSIONS BEFORE 0.1.0 ------------------------------------ Yank versions before 0.1.0 did not use correct XML which has hopefully changed now. Yank will automatically detect files from old versions and read them but will change withspaces in notes which is not very nice. I wrote a pretty dirty perl-script which will convert your old files. The script reads yank-files from standard input and writes to the standard output so converting will look like this: $ ./utils/yankconv-0.0.2-0.1.0 < old.file > new.file LICENSE ------- yank - yet another NoteKeeper Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Michael Hußmann <m.hussmann@home.ins.de> This program 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 2 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. References used in the text --------------------------- [1] http://home.ins.de/~m.hussmann/software/yank/index.html http://yank.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.gnome.org/ [3] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libxml/
