fumarole is a note-taking software application that runs inside of your web browser. it is open source, and heavily influenced by TiddlyWiki and OneNote. It is meant to be cross-platform, store massive amounts of data, be fast, used by a single person, and used locally (not over the Internet).
features
- WYSIWYG rich-text editing
- embedding of pictures, videos, and PDFs
- auto-saving of notes
- tags for notes
- tabs for notes
- fulltext search
- asynchronous loading/saving of data to keep the browser responsive
screenshot
Not what you need?
Fear not, alternatives abound:
- stickies (good for small desktop tasks)
- zoho notebook (good for drawing on the web collaboratively)
- Evernote (good for searching text inside pictures taken on your iPhone)
- remember the milk (good for tasks)
- OneNote (Windows-only, great for tablet PCs)
- TiddlyWiki (great for in-browser text notes)
- Circus Ponies NoteBook
- Yojimbo
- Journler
- and Mori (all alternatives to OneNote on the Mac).
Thank yous
Finally, a big thank you to all the folks behind jQuery, Google Gears, and Firebug, without whom this project would not have been possible.
Grab the latest release here, and unzip it to somewhere in your home folder. Then, open up your web browser and navigate to the index.html page in that folder. The software will likely prompt you to download Google Gears, and once that's done, you should be good to go. Please note that fumarole has currently only been tested on Firefox 3.
Vote
Vote on features you'd like to see implemented in fumarole here.
Bugs?
Report them here.
Questions?
Hit up the mailing list, or look at the FAQ below
F.A.Q.
- Q: I opened my fumarole index.html in another browser, and none of my data is there! Where'd it go?
A: The data is stored in a Google Gears database, which is specific to each browser. So pick a browser, and stick with it.