Procyon is a free and open source note keeping or note taking application for Linux, macOS and Windows. It supports plain text and markdown for notes. You can view your current notes in preview mode. It is still in early stage and you can use it as a your simple to user personal note taking app. It is using single SQLite database to store your notes. It you want to sync function, then you need to use Dropbox or Google Drive to sync your notes. It also comes with syntax highlighting and custom highlighter for your notes.
Install Procyon app on Ubuntu
You can install Procyon note keeping app using its portable AppImage file format on Ubuntu. Download the latest version of Procyon in appimage file format via the above download link and save it on your Downloads folder.
Note: For me the downloaded path is “Downloads” folder and file name is “procyon-0.11.0-linux-x64.AppImage“. You can change the below command based on your download path and file name.
Open the terminal app (Ctrl+Alt+T) and navigate to your Procyon download location via this command.
cd Downloads
Then run the below to change the file permission of the downloaded file.
sudo chmod +x ~ procyon-0.11.0-linux-x64.AppImage
Then type your Ubuntu user password. Then type the below command in your terminal app and press the enter key. It will start the Procyon note keeping app on your Linux system.
sudo ./procyon-0.11.0-linux-x64.AppImage
