Today, I’m giving you a quick tour of the Tomboy Scope. Tomboy is a popular cross-platform note taking application, allowing you to: create link between notes, sync them online, use Wiki style formatting, etc. Pretty much what you would expect from a modern notes app.

This scope lets you find your notes in the Dash, with some extra features on top.

All your notes

notes is the main keyword to start the scope (you can also use “note”, “tomboy” and “memo”), its purpose is to list all your notes, starting with the most recently modified.

Full text search

It also gives you the ability to do full text searches in the notes content.

Previewing a note

A preview (click on a note) will show you the last edition date, the content of the note and will try to extract an image from it :

If you add an image URL in a note, the scope will use it for the preview.

My favourite part of that feature is that it also works with a website URL. It will use an image from there.

Edition

As you would expect, clicking Edit opens the note for edition.

That’s it for the Tomboy scope. If you are using Ubuntu 13.10 and have Tomboy installed, you don’t have to do anything to use it, it should work out of the box.