Pamet

An infinite canvas for organizing information with text/images/links. Written using Qt for Python.

⚠ Still in alpha ⚠ - you'll probably encounter GUI bugs, but the data storage/saving is stable.

Installation

Via pip

Requires Python >3.10. If it's not available for your package manager(/app store) - you can use pyenv.

pip install pamet , start with pamet

From source

• Clone the Fusion and Pamet repos.

• Run pip install . (with the respective repo as current working dir).

  • If you want a development install run pip install -e . instead. Install Fusion first (otherwise it'll get pulled from PyPI). Also it would be best to do it in a virtual environment if you want to run the release version in parallel

• A Flatpak is in the works but I hit an issue there.

Usage

• Ctrl+shift+P for the command palette
• Double click to create a new note
• L to craete an arrow
• Click to select
• Long-press and drag to move selected notes/arrows
• Ctrl or shift to select multiple notes
• Ctrl+Shift to drag-select multiple notes
• Drag the lower right corner of a note to resize it
• Buttons 1,2,3,4 change the note color. 5 removes the background

• Selected notes get moved together and resized to the same size
• No manual saving is required

• Copy/paste/cut work as you'd expect
• Paste special with ctrl+shift+V (imports links and multiple notes) - will be improved

Testing

There are unit tests for some of the functionality and testing for the actions(=controller) which are not precise but are quite useful for visual verification (+are easy to generate).

Development state and future

Check some notes on the development so far

Currently the code documentation isn't updated, and typing annotations have to be completed in places.

Next goals in terms of features:

• Server for page sharing
• A minimal web app for viewing pages
• A minimal android app for viewing and limited input