cherrytree

cherrytree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories.

Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe).

The user manual online html and downloadable ctb written by Ellie Borden (currently old and discontinued).

The following languages are supported (If you want to help translating to your language write me):

  • Arabic (Abdulrahman Karajeh, up to date)
  • Armenian (Seda Stamboltsyan, up to date)
  • Bulgarian (Iliya Nikolaev, up to date)
  • Chinese Simplified (Wang Yu, up to date)
  • Chinese Traditional (Emer Chen, up to date)
  • Croatian (Filip Bakula, up to date)
  • Czech (Pavel Fric, up to date)
  • Dutch (up to date)
  • English (default)
  • French (Francis Gernet, up to date)
  • Finnish (Henri Kaustinen, TO BE UPDATED)
  • German (Matthias Hoffmann, up to date)
  • Greek (TO BE UPDATED)
  • Hindi India (TO BE UPDATED)
  • Hungarian (Stiener Norbert, TO BE UPDATED)
  • Italian (Vincenzo Reale, up to date)
  • Japanese (Piyo, up to date)
  • Kazakh (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
  • Kazakh (Latin) (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
  • Korean (Sean Lee, up to date)
  • Lithuanian (up to date)
  • Persian (Majid Abri, up to date)
  • Polish (Mariusz Gasperaniec, up to date)
  • Portuguese (Rui Santos, up to date)
  • Portuguese Brazil (Raysa Dutra, up to date)
  • Romanian (Tudor Sprinceana, up to date)
  • Russian (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
  • Slovenian (Erik Lovrič, up to date)
  • Spanish (up to date)
  • Swedish (Åke Engelbrektson, up to date)
  • Turkish (Ferhat Aydin, up to date)
  • Ukrainian (Giuseppe Penone, up to date)
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help features :

  • rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
  • syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
  • images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
  • latex math equations rendering
  • embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
  • multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
  • simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
  • codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
  • execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog; an embedded terminal is available on linux and mac os
  • alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
  • hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
  • spell check (using gspell)
  • intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
  • cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
  • copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
  • print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
  • find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
  • replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
  • iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
  • import from html file, import from folder of html files
  • import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
  • import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
  • export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) available only for storage as single file – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
  • tree nodes drag and drop
  • automatic link to web page if writing the URL
  • automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]



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downloadDownload last stable version 1.1.1 (March 27th, 2024 – changelog) :

tar.gz archive Source code (GPLv3+): cherrytree_1.1.1.tar.xz
with signature cherrytree_1.1.1.tar.xz.asc and key:
terminal gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C7BF38CE0BD442C2369AA984049128A20CE0648D
terminal gpg --verify PATH.tar.xz.asc
( NOTE: also available under github releases )

linuxubuntu package Ubuntu bionic 18.04 LTS / focal 20.04 LTS / jammy 22.04 LTS / mantic 23.10
giuspen PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:giuspen/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cherrytree

https://launchpad.net/~giuspen/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

linuxdebian packageDebian 12 cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian12_amd64.deb
Debian 11 cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian11_amd64.deb
Debian 10 cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian10_amd64.deb

linuxrpm package Fedora 39 cherrytree-1.1.1~Fedora39_amd64.rpm
Fedora 38 cherrytree-1.1.1~Fedora38_amd64.rpm
Fedora 31+ see https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bcotton/cherrytree/

linuxappimage package AppImage CherryTree-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage (all in one file, after downloading make it executable and then run it from a terminal or just double click)

linuxflatpak package Flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.giuspen.cherrytree

linuxsnap package Snap https://snapcraft.io/cherrytree

mac os homebrew Mac OS X Installer (by @dehesselle) https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/cherrytree_macos/-/releases
or Homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cherrytree
or Mac Ports https://ports.macports.org/port/cherrytree

7z archive Microsoft windows installer: cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_setup.exe [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_setup.exe]

7z archive Microsoft windows portable archive: cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_portable.7z (look for mingw64/bin/cherrytree.exe; for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt) [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_win32_portable.7z]

terminal sha256sum *
05c1252dd46769565700df1146e78d66c6ef60362599ea4f0b5abbd2b7304035 cherrytree_1.1.1.tar.xz
6c6f45f2d53c6349d259cb0dab50eed69b3c15b6e90f44fcf3b3d7838c571e99 cherrytree_1.1.1.tar.xz.asc
8a80e69bbadaca0c5f8071450ec80747bf809e6bc330214409c590aae0d164e9 cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_setup.exe
cd7621492ae16936d022c9ede430d4dbd69ab7949f771b7265fd951e5ec8ce1b cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_setup_nolatex.exe
07f6f49591d807fcb48585634fd770baa3afc054f400460e3f025f2b0a317974 cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_portable.7z
c8a122eaec004ae152364b3414a2f01c70683b332e93140fcbb397e3e3909134 cherrytree_1.1.1.0_win64_portable_nolatex.7z
f534ac2a8606affcfaf1dd198d8350d0049d6f4ace0585c6245f7cd3e421946f CherryTree-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage
fdf63372c44b8fb842e61f598b5bb2fe620630c8806e6606adbde45b03c03000 cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian12_amd64.deb
56abda6efda11566a7422bc0f969ba519edb428b47d7147ddab350870ce05ee9 cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian11_amd64.deb
8332a5d93fd13e4aea370cac8314c05a658f835dbedea36abb789f61a6c845eb cherrytree_1.1.1-2~Debian10_amd64.deb
9d8598bbb4a89ab92a35461344fe5a2475ccebb71bdd42027af5a1a6fe397a90 cherrytree-1.1.1~Fedora39_amd64.rpm
1c6737b411795ce7c8a30811a8d864fd4e672ec7e9211270a25aa845cd8d8779 cherrytree-1.1.1~Fedora38_amd64.rpm

gnome resides in applications–accessories–cherrytree



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downloaddownload testing version:

(v1.1.1 pre-release)
linuxappimage packageAppImage CherryTree-1.1.0+10-x86_64.AppImage (all in one file, after downloading make it executable and then run it from a terminal or just double click)

7z archive Microsoft windows portable archive: cherrytree_1.1.0.0+10_win64_portable.7z (look for mingw64/bin/cherrytree.exe; for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt)



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plugins  source code :

the source code is version controlled with git and hosted by github.
you can get a clone of the cherrytree git repository issuing the command:

terminal git clone https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree.git
terminal git submodule update --init

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