CherryTree 0.39.3

CherryTree is designed and delivered as a hierarchical note taking solution that allows you to create, store and organize any number of notes in an easy to navigate structure. When it comes to taking notes there is a huge number of computer programs to choose from. On one side of a performance chart you have simple, basic text editors with a save function, on the other you find more complex tools that are feature-packed, tailored for more advanced users, and at the middle, between proper for novice users and professionals, you have CherryTree.

Practical and easy to use

CherryTree is both simple and complex at the same time. It’s simple because it displays a more than comprehensive user interface which makes it accessible to just about anyone who wants to use it. As far as complex goes, that refers to what’s behind the graphical user interface as the list of what you can do with the application is quite long.

Using this note editor you benefit from an advanced text editor, syntax highlighting, along with table, codebox and image insertion, alignment functions for all types of content, exporting to various formats and much more.

A wide range of handy features

CherryTree enables you to do more than just insert text and save it for later use. Each note, or node as it is referred in this case, can be customized to a large extent in a variety of ways. Besides being able to choose the font and its size, you can also highlight specific portions of it, change alignment, toggle subscript and superscript, add bullets, insert images, files, timestamps, etc.

In a lot of ways it’s more advanced than a good deal of text editors out today and that becomes a certainty when you have to consider that CherryTree makes it possible to import n/otes from formats that are created using other similar applications and can export content to PDF, HTML and simple TXT files.

On a closing note

With the above to consider and a lot more to discover about what else CherryTree can do, it’s safe to say that if you’re looking for a sturdy and reliable note manager, then you can certainly give this one a try.

Features

rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, subscript, superscript, monospace)
syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
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
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 pygtkspellcheck and pyenchant)
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/…lose cherrytree
tree nodes drag and drop
automatic link to web page if writing the URL
automatic link to node if writing node name either with no spaces and camelcase or surrounded by [[node name]]