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+===== gjots2(1) - a simple jotter for linux/X11 =====
-===== **gjots2**(1) - a simple jotter for X11/gtk-gnome =====
-What is it?
 **gjots2**(1) is a simple jotter application for your desktop - an outline processor.
+{{ gjots2_shot.png }}
 You can use **gjots2**(1) to organise your jottings into a tree structure, adding thoughts and miscellany as you go. You can get it to spit out HTML, XML, postscript, pdf, man etc etc (see the online manual for an example of the HTML conversion).
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 I use it for all my notes on Unix, my personal bits and pieces, recipes and even PINs and passwords. I also use it to write DOCBOOK XML documents.
-**gjots2**(1) supports the use of ccrypt(1), gpg(1) and openssl(1) to encrypt and decrypt files. Just make sure the encryption packages that you want to use are installed as they are not all a standard part of all Linux distributions.
+**gjots2**(1) supports the use of **ccrypt**(1), **gpg**(1) and **openssl**(1) to encrypt and decrypt files. Just make sure the encryption packages that you want to use are installed as they are not all a standard part of all Linux distributions.
-**gjots2**(1) is written under the GNU Copyleft GPL so please note the terms and conditions under the license section of the manual. Broadly speaking the program is free of charge and free of restrictions on what you can do with it, except restrict it - in other words, it's liberated or 'libre' as well as free as in free beer, but that's much less important.
+**gjots2**(1) is licensed under the GNU Copyleft GPL so please note the terms and conditions under the license section of the manual. Broadly speaking the program is free of charge and free of restrictions on what you can do with it, except you can't restrict it - in other words, it's liberated or 'libre' as well as free as in free beer, but that's much less important.
-Since version 2.0.0, **gjots2**(1) is implemented in Python and pygtk for GTK-2.
+Version 1.0.0 was implemented in **c** and glade (in 2002!)
-Since verions 3.0.0, **gjots2**(1) is implemented in Python and PyGObject
+Since version 2.0.0, **gjots2**(1) is implemented in Python and pygtk.
+Since version 3.0.0, **gjots2**(1) is implemented in Python and PyGObject
-Internationalisation and Localisation
+==== Internationalisation and Localisation ====
-French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Norwegian, Spanish, Slovenian and German versions are complete (but all need maintenance). Volunteers?
+French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Norwegian, Spanish, Slovenian and German versions are complete - but all need maintenance - volunteers?
-Translators interested in localising **gjots2**(1) for languages other than English are invited to contact the author.
+Translators interested in localising **gjots2**(1) for languages other than English are invited to contact the author at [[ bob dot hepple at gmail dot com ]].
 Anyone for Japanese?
+==== Source code & packages ====
+**gjots2**(1) is hosted by [[ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gjots2|SourceForge]] which manages the bug reports, enhancement requests, etc. The latest SVN source is available with this:
+  svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/gjots2/code/trunk/gjots
+The latest tarballs:
+{{ gjots2-2.4.4.tgz?linkonly }}
+{{ gjots2-3.0.1.tgz?linkonly }}
+The latest packages for RPM-based systems:
+For Fedora-21+ and Centos-7+: {{ gjots2-3.0.1-1.noarch.rpm?linkonly }}
+For up to Fedora-21 and Centos-6: {{ gjots2-2.4.4-1.noarch.rpm?linkonly }}
+==== What's new ====
+Version 3.0.1 (14th Nov 2015) is a feature release update.
+  * port to Gtk+3 / PyGObject - requires Fedora-21 or Centos-7
+  * fix external editor function
+  * derive tempfile from original filename
+  * promote item in combox to pole position on re-use
+  * improve alarm - use GObject.timeout_add
+  * when the file is changed underneath us, move the new version aside
+Full [[ GjotsChangelog | changelog ]]