Jorts

Neither jeans nor shorts, just like jorts. A sticky notes app for elementary OS

🛣️ Roadmap

Jorts is a cute simple little notes app, and is planned to stay as a cute simple little notes app. In the works for next version:

• Squiggly mode
• Emoji button
• Zoom: ctrl+scroll to zoom
• Detect local path to files and folders and open in file explorer
• Do sometimes a backup of the stash
• try loading backup if main is corrupted
• More commandline options (reopen all, quit)
• Highlight text in different colors? Like a highlighter
• Add bold, italic, strikethrough...?
• Move widget definitions to blueprint files?

New features may sneak themselves. Feel free to check the project board

💝 Donations

Some of the code (and the aesthetic) was from original work by Lainsce because this is a fork of an older version of Notejot from a time before new additions broke NoteJot for elementary OS 8. Currently the real, official NoteJot is something different, more fully-featured and no longer focused on elementary OS. Some people liked the simplicity of the old version, and thus we created this fork of it.

If you want to thank the original creator:

Be a backer on Lainsce on Patreon

Currently actively trying to revive this project is me - Stella Support is always welcome and shows us that people want this work to continue.

Stella, current main dev:

🏗️ Building

Please make sure you have these dependencies first before building Jorts.

flatpak-builder
libgranite-7-dev
gtk+-4.0
libjson-glib-dev
libgee-0.8-dev
libjson-glib
meson
valac
gettext

As of the current date (16March2025), here are the package names to install:

sudo apt install libgranite-7-common libjson-glib-dev libgee-0.8-2 meson valac libvala-0.56-0 flatpak-builder gettext

Installation is as simple as installing the above, downloading and extracting the zip archive, changing to the new repo's directory, and run the following command:

flatpak-builder --force-clean --user --install-deps-from=appcenter --install builddir ./io.github.ellie_commons.jorts.yml

💾 Notes Storage

Notes are stored in ~/.var/app/io.github.ellie_commons.jorts/data

You can get it all by entering in a terminal:

cp ~/.var/app/io.github.ellie_commons.jorts/data ~/

"saved_state.json" contains all notes in JSON format. "backup_state.json" is a monthly backup of it.