To set preferences for Gnote, click the menu button in main window and select Preferences from the menu.
There are three categories of preferences, General, Hotkeys and Add-Ins.
The General tab lets you set preferences related to application behaviour and editing notes. There are a few checkboxes on this tab:
Use status icon
Enable this checkbox to show the Gnote status icon when running. In this mode Gnote will remain present even after all its windows are closed. When you click the status icon, a menu appears that gives you quick access to recently used notes and other windows.
Always open notes in new window
When checked, instead of replacing current window content, note is opened in the new window.
Spellcheck while typing
Enable this checkbox to underline misspellings in red and provide suggestions in the right click context menu.
The spellcheck option is only available if you have the GtkSpell package for your distribution installed.
Highlight WikiWords
Enable this checkbox to create links for phrases ThatLookLikeThis. Clicking on a link will create a new note with a title corresponding to the link text.
Enable auto-bulleted lists
When this preference is enabled, you can create bulleted lists by starting lines with a dash character -. Read more about Bulleted Lists.
Use custom font
Enable this checkbox to set a custom font to be used in your notes.
The Advanced button in the Synchronization tab of the Preferences dialog brings up another dialog for setting up conflict resolution.
This dialog lets you choose what to do when a conflict occurs. A conflict happens when a note has been modified both on the local machine and on another device. You can select one of these options:
Rename the existing note by appending "(old)" to its title and downloading the one from storage
Replace the existing note by the one from storage, losing all modifications
Ask about each conflicting note individually
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