Goat Notes

Description

Goat Notes is a feature-rich markdown note-taking app. It supports multiple tabs, calendar view for notes, folder structure, self-hosted syncing service, and much more.

Goat Notes was created for a course, CS 398, at the University of Waterloo. Our meeting minutes are stored here.

The authors of Goat Notes are Team 209: Jusdeep Dhaliwal, Jeffery Li, Abhay Sharma, and Philips Xu.

Our wiki contains installation instructions, usage instructions, meeting minutes and information on our releases.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the installer from the repository
2. Click on the installer to install the Goat Notes.

Usage Instructions

Keyboard Shortcuts

Note: On Mac OS, use the Cmd key instead of Ctrl key.

• General
  • New Note - Ctrl-N
  • Switch to calendar navigation view - Ctrl-Shift-C
  • Switch to note navigation view - Ctrl-Shift-E
  • Switch to search navigation view - Ctrl-Shift-F
  • Delete note/folder selected in navigation view - Delete
  • Rename note/folder selected in navigation view - Enter
• Tabs
  • Close tab - Ctrl-W
  • Go to next tab - Ctrl-Tab
  • Go to previous tab - Ctrl-Shift-Tab
• Editor
  • Bold - Ctrl-B
  • Italics - Ctrl-I
  • Undo - Ctrl-Z

Calendar

To use the calendar view, first we need to set a date using the date picker in the note editor toolbar. After doing this, we can click on the date the note is tagged with in the calendar view to see a list of all the notes tagged with that date.

Sync Service

• Ensure that you have the sync service running.
• Click File > Push Notes to push your local notes and folders to the remote sync service.
• Click File > Pull Notes to overwrite your local notes with the remotes stored on the remote sync service.

Screenshots

The calendar view for keeping due dates and to-do lists in order.

The search view for searching through your notes.

Acknowledgements

We have listed our acknowledgements in our wiki.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.