I personally have difficulty with GUIs and with how every one of them seems to approach the same problem differenlty. Mastered point-and-click is not as useful as the CLI because it's generally less direct. (e.g. you slide your mouse up there on the menu, click to open it, slide down, click to choose the option, click on a field in the newly opened window, type in the new value, slide down and click on the OK button. whereas with CLI you type in your command and pass in your arguments for the new values, and you're done)
I love Tomboy for how simple it is and how you can sync notes with ssh and other methods. However, I personally don't like how note management is achieved. It is very easy for newcommers, but lets no room for power users to get faster / better.
So, I've built a CLI interface to Tomboy. I called it Scout (after being advised to change name from Tomtom -- which was a slang synonym for Tomboy. Scout comes from the character from "To kill a mockingbird". She's that tomboy girl that likes to pick up a fight with other students when they make fun of her father).
Everything is done through the D-Bus API exposed by Tomboy. Luckily, Gnote (a port of Tomboy to C++ that became an entirely separate project) exposes the same API functions; this means Scout supports Gnote, too!
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