One of the greatest Linux applications I have ever used is Tomboy. It is a simple note taking application that sits in your toolbar and provides quick note creation, searching, basic formatting and linking between notes. It is perfect for the kind of note taking I do on the fly while sitting at my computer.

Long have I searched for a worthy equivalent for Mac OSX without much luck. For a time I used WikityWidget on the Dashboard. The only thing I didn't like about WikityWidget was that you couldn't resize the window to allow for more note room.

However on random forum the other day a saw a reference to a OSX application called Sidenote. It hangs out on the side of you desktop and allows you to mouseover and quickly create and jot down notes. It does support some formatting and you can save them externally. It also allows you to drag images and files into the note (I have tried images and pdfs). However it trails Tomboy in that there is no searching or linking between notes.

Overall I really like Sidenote and have been using it like crazy over the past few days. It will definitely be added to my Mac application toolbox. I want to thank Pierre Chantel for taking the time write and then give away such an excellent application.

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