Tombo

Tombo is the original Microsoft Windows (Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile) note program.

http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/ redirects to http://tombo.osdn.jp/En/

Problems

• As of 2023 with Windows 10, keyboard navigation doesn't work the way it used to
  • Tree navigation using keys, e.g. start to type name of directory/folder does NOT work with Windows 7 on wards (used to work with Windows 98, 2000, XP)
  • Editing/Viewing text, win10; selection for copy/paste; ctrl-shift cursor key in Tombo does NOT work

Limitations

• In Tombo file encoding utf-8 does NOT work for anything outside of Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), i.e. emoji
• limitations, original version will not launch external applications for encrypted chi files (note, feature present in https://github.com/clach04/tombo/releases/tag/2.0b5_external_apps_chi)
• max file size is small, potentially leading to silent corruption. NOTE differences/complications (64Kb)
  • Tombo 1.17 can load files greater than ~30Kb in size, but will silently truncated when saving or copy/pasting into a new note.
  • Tombo 2.0 beta 5 appears to be able to save text files above 100Kb
• only one instance of Tombo can be ran at the same time, i.e. limited to single directory of notes (can not run two instances of Tombo with a different note directory) - ptig does not have this limitation, it can both support multiple note/directory paths and also multiple instances can be ran at the same time.

Software Links

Tombo

For Windows (runs under Linux in WINE), WindowsCE, PocketPC, and WindowsMobile.

Incremental search with control over encrypted search or not.

• http://tombo.osdn.jp/En/ (http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/ redirects)
  • https://osdn.net/projects/tombo/scm/
  • https://osdn.net/cvs/view/tombo/
  • Forks and mirrors
    • https://github.com/clach04/tombo_cvs - old code, 2002-2006. Contains branches for older versions
    • https://github.com/clach04/tombo - latest, with some minor new features ahead of upstream - missing CVS history, 2009+

kumagusu

Offers full search results rather than incremental. Always searches encryptes notes whether you want that or not.

• https://osdn.net/projects/kumagusu/ - by tarshi
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gr.java_conf.kumagusu
  • https://github.com/clach04/kumagusu_mirror

Can not paste more than 128Kb https://github.com/aashishksahu/SafeSpace/issues/86

mininoteviewer

Implements incremental search, like original Tombo

Under recent Android versions requires multiple clicks to bring up search and edit (due to lack of context menus post android 3?)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20171221160557/http://hatapy.web.fc2.com/mininoteviewer.html (was http://hatapy.web.fc2.com/mininoteviewer.html) - by hatalab
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gr.java_conf.hatalab.mnv
  • https://github.com/clach04/mininoteviewer_mirror

Tombo Edit

• Tombo Edit - by Michael Efimov
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/tomboedit/
  • https://github.com/clach04/tombo_edit_mirrorfork

TomboCrypt

• TomboCrypt - by Michael Efimov
  • https://osdn.net/projects/tombo/releases/p1532 simple command line utility - 32-bit binaries for Microsoft Windows and Linux
  • https://osdn.net/projects/tombo/scm/git/Tombo/tree/master/contrib/TomboCrypt/ - source code in git can be built with gcc -static -DTOMBO -oTomboCrypt *.cpp *.c -lstdc++
  • https://osdn.net/cvs/view/tombo/Tombo/contrib/TomboCrypt/ - source code in CVS

chi_io

https://pypi.org/project/chi-io/

• https://github.com/clach04/chi_io/ - Pure Python read/write encryption/decryption of encrypted Tombo chi files

PyTombo

Partial web and gtk UI. Offers excellent search via web interface including full text search (FTS) support. Also supports no -local files, notes can be in sftp, zip file, ftp server, etc. replaced https://git.sr.ht/~clach04/wxtombo which crashes newer versions of wx.

• https://hg.sr.ht/~clach04/pytombo