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Scout

Scout is a CLI for the note taking applications Tomboy notes and Gnote. It is written in Python and uses the dbus-python library to communicate with the applications.

If only one of the two supported note-taking application is installed, Scout will automatically use it. In the case that both applications are installed on the same machine, configuration can be used to specify which one should be used.

Current¹ version includes ability to list, display and delete notes and to search for text inside the notes. It is also possible to extract the note-taking application’s version number.

To install Scout from source, simply download a tarball or clone the git repository and run the following command inside the code directory:

sudo python setup.py install

To install using packages, see the packages page for details.

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