In the next article we are going to take a look at VNote. This is an app for taking notes in Markdown, which is free and open source. It is available for Gnu / Linux, Windows, and macOS. VNote tries to be a powerful Markdown editor with note management, or a note-taking application with nice support for this markup language. It is released under the MIT license.
This program offers support for text notes without the need for a database. It supports HTML, PDF and PDF with images. It will also allow us to insert images into our notes directly from the clipboard. Some other useful features are full-text search, syntax highlighting, HiDPI support, themes, etc.
In this tool almost everything is configurable, from the background color to the font, through the Markdown style. VNote uses a plain text file to record all its settings, so that file can be copied to initialize a new VNote on another computer.
This program offers shortcuts for easy editing, including Vim mode, Captain mode and navigation mode, which will allow us to work without the mouse. It can consult the help of keyboard shortcuts in the help menu for more details.
VNote general features
- Offers a simple note management. All notes created are managed by configuration files that are stored as plain text files. We will be able to access our notes without VNote. For this, we can use external file synchronization services with which to synchronize our notes and import them on another machine.
- Universal input and full-text search. VNote has a powerful built-in full-text search with support for regular expressions and fuzzy search.
- VNote supports precise syntax highlighting for Markdown. Adjusting the style of the highlighting will allow us to keep track of our document easily.
- Allows insert images directly from clipboard. We will simply have to paste our image in the note, VNote will manage all the other things. The program stores the images in the same folder as the note. VNote will open a window to preview the image when we insert it.
- VNote supports a powerful preview , for images, diagrams and formulas in edit mode.
- We will have the possibility to use infinite levels of folders.
- supports HiDPI.
- Note attachments.
- Themes and dark mode.
- Rich and extensible export, such as HTML, PDF and PDF with images.
- Viewer interactive schematic in read and edit mode. VNote provides an easy-to-use schematic viewer for both edit and view modes.
These are some of the features of Vnote. You can learn more about all of them in the GitHub page of the project.
Download the VNote AppImage file
We will be able to use VNote in Ubuntu using the AppImage file that they offer us on their website. We will only have to download the VNote application to our system from the releases page From this project.
Once the download is finished we will have to right click on the downloaded .AppImage file and select "Properties”. Then we will have to go to the tab "Permissions"And in it mark the check that says"Allow to run the file as a program”To give the permission and to be able to execute the program. Another option for change required permission, it will be to use the following commands in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). First we are going to move to the folder in which we have saved the downloaded file:
cd Descargas
For the next command that we are going to execute, the downloaded file is 'VNote-2.8-x86_64.AppImage'. This may change as the version of the program changes. The command to execute in the same terminal will be the following:
sudo chmod +x VNote-2.8-x86_64.AppImage
After this, we can launch the program by executing in the same terminal:
sudo ./VNote-2.8-x86_64.AppImage
Another option to run the program is to double click on the downloaded file. With this we can begin to use this program in our system. If you like to write notes of Markdown to study, work or live, this tool will possibly like you.