CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories. The project home page is giuspen.net/cherrytree.

Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe).

Cherrytree main window with text

Features

Rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
Syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
Images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
Latex math equations rendering
Embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
Multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
Simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
Codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
Execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog; an embedded terminal is available on linux and mac os
Alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
Hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
Spell check (using gspell)
Intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
Cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
Copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
Print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
Export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
Export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
Toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
Find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
Replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
Iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
Import from html file, import from folder of html files
Import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
Import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
Export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
Password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) available only for storage as single file – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary -folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
Tree nodes drag and drop
Automatic link to web page if writing the URL
Automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]