NOTE provides a console note management tool.

NOTE is a small console program that allows you to manage notes similar to programs like "knotes" from the command line. It supports different database backends for storage, and includes a DBI-based MySQL module and another module that uses a binary file for storage and a DBM module.

Here are some key features of "NOTE":
· Several different database backends, mysql(DBI), dbm, binary(bin file), general and text (text files).
· Commandline interface using the standard perl module etopt::Long, which allows you tuse short or long command-line options.
· Interactive interface(pure ascii), the following functions are available in interactive mode: list, display, topic, delete, edit, help.
· Highly confiurable using a perlish configfile ~/.noterc. although it is configurable it is not required, note can run without a configfile using useful default presets.
· Colourized output is supported using ASCII Escape-Sequences.
· The user can customize the color for each item.
· Data can be stored in various different database backends, since all database access is excluded from the program itself in perl modules.
· Notes can be deleted, edited and you can search trough your notes.
· Notes can be categorized. Each category(topic) can contain multiple notes and even more sup-topics. There is nlimitation about sub topics.
· You can view all notes in a list and it is possible only tview notes under a certain topic.
· There is a tree-view, which allows you tget an overview of your topic-hierarchy.
· Notes can be encrypted using DES or IDEA algorythms and Crypt::CBC.
· You can dump the contents of your note database inta plain text file, which can later be imported. Imports can be appended or it can overwrite an existing database (-o).
· Note has scripting capabilities, you can create a new note by piping another commands output tnote, you can alsimport a notedump from stdin as well es duming tstdout instead a file. Additional, there is an option --raw available, which prints everything out completely without formatting.
· for better performance, note can cache the database for listings or searching.
· It can be installed without root-privileges.
· if Term::ReadLine (and Term::ReadLine::Gnu) is installed, history and auto-completion are supported in interactive mode.
· Last, a while aga user stated: "... it simply does, what it says ..."

Requirements:
· perl installed (5.004x)
· The module IO::Seekable and Fcntl
· DBI module and DBI::mysql
· The module DB_FILE
· Getopt::Long
· Term::ReadLine
· Config::General

What's New in This Release:
· FIXED: most config variables not related to drivers hadinvalid sentence in note, so the new ones of the new configwere ignored.
· FIXED: added version to NOTEDB::text.
· FIXED: fixed handling of NOTEDB::crypt_supported, now encryption works again.
· ADDED: NOTEDB::text now supports internal caching too.
· CHANGED: lock() sets the umask internally to 022, so that other users are able to read the lockfile.