NAME

       tomboy-ng - manage a collection of notes using a simple markup

SYNOPSIS

       tomboy-ng   [-h]   [-g]   [--gnome3]  [--debug-sync]  [--debug-index]  [--debug-log=LOGFILE]  [--lang=CC]
       [--config-dir=PATH_to_DIR] [-o PATH_to_NOTE] [--open-note=PATH_to_NOTE] [PATH_to_NOTE]

DESCRIPTION

       tomboy-ng is a rewrite of the much loved Tomboy Notes. It runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS.  It  is  file
       compatible  with  Tomdroid  and  GNote  (>=v0.30).  Tomboy-ng  notes support Bold, Italic, Strikethrough,
       Highlight and Underline in four sizes. It will sync notes with other systems  using  Tomboy's  File  Sync
       model and to remote servers using sshfs.

       tomboy-ng  has  built  in  systems to take snapshots of your notes for safe keeping, to import and export
       notes in different formats,  spell  checking  means  to  group  your  notes  into  "notebooks"  for  easy
       management.

       Many  users  will  want  to  have  tomboy-ng  start  at logon time and leave it running indefinitly. When
       running, it will put an Icon in the System Tray and you can interact with it via that Icon. However, some
       Gnome 3 based Linux distros cannot display the System Tray Icon, on such limited systems,  add  tomboy-ng
       to  your  dock  as  a  favourite  and  clicking  that will either start tomboy-ng or activate an existing
       instance.

       On Windows and Mac tomboy-ng uses native libraries, on Linux,  tomboy-ng  comes  in  both  GTK2  and  Qt5
       version and most systems have almost all the necessary libraries pre installed.

       While  options below are familiar to Linux users, Mac and Windows users may like to look at some examples
       further down to see how to use them.

OPTIONS

       -h     Print some help and exit.

       --debug-sync
              Generate a lot of logging  information  on  the  console  during  a  sync  process.  Intended  for
              debugging.

       --debug-index
              Generate  a  lot of logging information on the console while indexing the notes repo. Intended for
              debugging.

       --debug-log=LOGFILE
              Direct debug info to a file, this is necessary to see that output on Windows and Mac and sometimes
              useful on Linux. LOGFILE is a filename and a (writable) path to that filename. See  section  below
              on debugging.

       --lang=CC
              Tomboy-ng  normally  picks  up  its  language  from  the  OS and does an auto switch. However, its
              possible to force a language at startup using the two letter language code, ie es for spanish,  nl
              for dutch.

       -c, --config-dir=PATH_to_DIR
              Create  or  use  an  alternative  config.  That  config could, for example, specify an alternative
              location to store notes and sync against a different file sync repository.

       -o, --open-note=PATH_to_NOTE
              Open a note in single note mode. In this mode, a separate process runs, it does not have access to
              the normal notes location, nor sync but can read, display and write back to a stand alone note. If
              the note name does not exist, a new note is created. If the note name specifies a plain text  file
              or  a  rtf  file, the contents of that file will be imported into a new note and that note will be
              named as specified on the command line but with an extension of ".note".  In this mode,  the  note
              remains  in  its  existing  location,  it  is not moved to the tomboy-ng notes location, it is not
              synced, nor searched by tomboy-ng in its normal mode. Note that the switch (-o or --open-note)  is
              optional, "tomboy-ng some.note" will works as well.

Further Help

       tomboy-ng  comes  bundled with several read only notes that provide help on topics such as keyboard short
       cuts, setting up a sync system, using the built in calculator and keeping your notes safe.

       The project's wiki also has extensive information available.  https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng

DEBUGGING

       tomboy-ng accepts a couple of debug switches as noted above. They will write  detailed  progress  reports
       relating  to  their  section of the application to the console. However, Windows and Mac do not, for this
       purpose, have a console. But can be told to capture this log info to a file using  another  command  line
       switch  or  by  setting  an env variable that specifies a file name. Please ensure you have permission to
       write to the location specified.

       tomboy-ng  --debug-log=%userprofile%\debug.txt  --debug-sync

       set tomboy-ng_debuglog=c:\%userprofile%\debug.txt

       Mac users can do something similar :

       open /Applications/tomboy-ng.app --args     "--debug-log=$HOME/tomboy-ng.log"  "--debug-sync"

       Linux users who need a debug logfile can also :

       tomboy-ng --debug-sync --debug-log=$HOME/tomboy-ng.log

       Windows users should do something like this -

       Rightclick the startbutton and select "run".  In the field, enter  this  command  line  exactly  as  show
       (including the inverted commas) -

       "C:\Program Files\tomboy-ng\tomboy-ng.exe" --debug-index --debug-log=%userprofile%\Desktop\tomboy-log.txt

       Press  enter,  tomboy-ng  should start up normally. Close it. A file called tomboy-log.txt will have been
       created on your desktop.

       If you intend to post such a log file to (eg) the Tomboy help system, do please check through it first to
       ensure there is nothing there you don't want the world to see.

SEE ALSO

       https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng

       There you will find several wiki pages going into far more detail than here.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to the Tomboy mailing list (tomboy-list@beatniksoftware.com) or  via  Github  see
       above.

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