I used to rely on BasKet notes on both Fedora and Redhat
After rebuilding a Desktop I discovered it was no longer available in the Fedora repositories. This may not be a new thing as I discovered I had also downloaded/saved the RPM file for it so must have manually installed in to use in the past, I would assume to avoid losing years worth of how-to notes I had saved. That application appears to no longer be in active development which is a shame.
This time I decided to move forward, and after a fair bit of searching I found that ‘CherryTree’ provided similar functionality and as an added bonus the documentation indicated it could import basket files. It uses SQLite for storage but unlike many other products that use that it provides a database compression/reclaim from within the application menu (addmitedly I have not tried to compress the database yet as it will be a good few months of entries before I have enough fragmentation to see if it does anything).
Anyway, the ‘CherryTree’ package is still supported in the Fedora repositories so it was a simple case of ‘dnf -y install cherrytree’ to make it available.
I uncompressed a baskets backup and used CherryTree to import the baskets data… it worked. So I can move on using a currently supported application with loss of years of notes. Its functionality for day-to-day use is also very similar, so a good match as a replacement application.
