TAFKAS!

Ever wish you had an easy way to take notes on the web sites you visit? I sure did. That's why I wrote TAFKAS.

What is it?

TAFKAS* is a web productivity application that works together with Netscape Navigator/Communicator on Unix platforms. It provides a convenient interface for taking notes on the web sites you visit. It allows you to save and retrieve files in a native format (using Python's 'pickle' or 'cPickle' module), or to export to HTML.

The current release is a prototype. This means that, while most of the major features are implemented, it has some serious bugs that I am aware of, and probably others I am unaware of. I am making it available to the public mainly in order to obtain some constructive criticism on the concept.

Here's what it looks like:

Requirements

Unix or Unix-like OS

Netscape browser

Python with Tkinter (required) and tkFont (optional but highly recommended)

Tcl/Tk

So far it has been tested only on Linux (Red Hat 5.2) with Python 1.5.2, Tcl/Tk 8.0, and Netscape Communicator 4.61. It probably requires Python 1.5 or later, and Tcl/Tk 8.0 or later. Different flavors of Unix, Linux distributions, or earlier/later versions of Netscape should not be a problem.

Download

Unix: surfnotes-proto.tar.gz [19 kB]