Bug 114894

Summary: wish: New KOffice app to replace OneNote
Product: [Unmaintained] koffice Reporter: Jonas Finnemann Jensen <jopsen>
Component: generalAssignee: KOffice Bug Wranglers <koffice-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: cfeck, kde-2011.08
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: Persona: Santiago   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonas Finnemann Jensen 2005-10-22 20:46:40 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I've been looking for a note-taking application, instead of Microsoft OneNote. And then I realized that it is one of the thew things missing in Linux.

Well my point is that it would be very easy to make Kword into a note-taking application, that has more features then Microsoft OneNote...

All you have to do:
* Add a treeview to organise notes in.
* Make the app auto save
* Put the treeview where the "document structure" are
* Change icons and name
* Add it to Koffice

Then you would have a note-taking application like:
http://knowit.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
Only that you're version has all the features of Kword, that is more then Microsofts OneNote has... for an exsample you would have support for formulas...
Comment 1 Inge Wallin 2005-10-23 17:44:40 UTC
We are looking at introducing a mindmapping tool into KOffice.  This might be sort of what you are looking for.
Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2007-12-10 19:24:07 UTC
A mindmapping tool is not the same as an outliner. Knowit (and Onenote, I think) have their nodes organized in a tree structure. Mindmapping tools do not have this tree structure, at least, not from a UI perspective.

That said, Knowit is one of two tools (Kate is the other) that keep me addicted to KDE. I would love to see the app developed further, however, not perverted into a word processor.
Comment 3 Thomas Zander 2008-08-06 19:46:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32320 ***
Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2011-02-10 09:30:40 UTC
This bug is not a dupe of 32320. Bug 32320 requests an Outline mode in Kword, similar to that found in MS Word. This bug requests, among other things, a treeview for organising separate pages/documents/sections which have no linear continuity.

In my opinion this would be better implemented as a new Koffice / Calligra application and not as an addition to Kword. But it is a very valid request and such applications (similar to Basket or KnowIt) are very useful. Unfortunately, both Basket and KnowIt have been abandoned, and Basket even when it was maintained did not conform to the simple text-document paradigm.
Comment 5 Thomas Zander 2011-02-10 10:42:52 UTC
Sorry if the mark as duplicate was confusing; the bug was indeed not a pure duplicate but both bugs had requirements for the same components. Both usecases had to be taken into account when looking at a solution.
Comment 6 Sebastian Sauer 2011-02-11 23:21:59 UTC
Note that in Calligra we wrote and added Braindump ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114894 ) as OneNote-replacement. You can grab it from http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/Building_Calligra#Get_the_source_code_for_the_development_version .
Comment 7 Sebastian Sauer 2011-02-11 23:23:03 UTC
Ah, wrong link to Braindump. Next try: http://blog.cberger.net/2010/12/31/koffice-2-3-0-braindump-0-10-0/
Comment 8 Dotan Cohen 2011-02-15 12:50:33 UTC
Thanks, Braindump is very far from being what this RFE requests. Braindump, for one thing, lacks hierarchy.
Comment 9 Sebastian Sauer 2011-02-15 14:14:04 UTC
I see. I added bug 266377 against braindump to ask for a way to have hierachy. As usual thanks for the feedback Dotan :)
Comment 10 Christoph Feck 2015-02-06 13:11:37 UTC
Thank you for your bug report or feature suggestion.

The "KOffice" application suite is no longer maintained, and all tickets are now closed.

We recommend to switch to the "Calligra" application suite, which has replacements for all unmaintained KOffice applications:

- KWord was replaced with Calligra Words
- KPlato was replaced with Calligra Plan

For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra_Suite

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