cherrytree – giuspen

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories.

Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe).

The user manual online html and downloadable ctb written by Ellie Borden (currently old and discontinued).

The following languages are supported (If you want to help translating to your language write me):

Arabic (TO BE UPDATED)
Armenian (Seda Stamboltsyan, up to date)
Bulgarian (Iliya Nikolaev, up to date)
Chinese Simplified (Wang Yu, up to date)
Chinese Traditional (Emer Chen, up to date)
Croatian (Filip Bakula, TO BE UPDATED)
Czech (Pavel Fric, up to date)
Dutch (up to date)
English (default)
French (Francis Gernet, up to date)
Finnish (Henri Kaustinen, TO BE UPDATED)
German (Matthias Hoffmann, up to date)
Greek (TO BE UPDATED)
Hindi India (TO BE UPDATED)
Hungarian (Stiener Norbert, up to date)
Italian (Vincenzo Reale, up to date)
Japanese (Piyo, TO BE UPDATED)
Kazakh (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
Kazakh (Latin) (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
Korean (Sean Lee, up to date)
Lithuanian (TO BE UPDATED)
Persian (Majid Abri, up to date)
Polish (Mariusz Gasperaniec, up to date)
Portuguese (Rui Santos, TO BE UPDATED)
Portuguese Brazil (Raysa Dutra, up to date)
Romanian (Tudor Sprinceana, up to date)
Russian (Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
Slovenian (Erik Lovrič, up to date)
Spanish (up to date)
Swedish (Åke Engelbrektson, up to date)
Turkish (Ferhat Aydin, up to date)
Ukrainian (Giuseppe Penone, up to date)

features

stable

testing

source

bug tracker

cherrytree

features :

rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
latex math equations rendering
embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog; an embedded terminal is available on linux and mac os
alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
spell check (using gspell)
intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
import from html file, import from folder of html files
import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) available only for storage as single file – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
tree nodes drag and drop
automatic link to web page if writing the URL
automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]

Download last stable version 1.0.1 (August 25th, 2023 – changelog) :

Source code (GPLv3+): cherrytree_1.0.1.tar.xz
with signature cherrytree_1.0.1.tar.xz.asc and key:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C7BF38CE0BD442C2369AA984049128A20CE0648D
gpg --verify PATH.tar.xz.asc
( NOTE: also available under github releases )

Ubuntu bionic 18.04 LTS / focal 20.04 LTS / jammy 22.04 LTS / kinetic 22.10 / lunar 23.04
giuspen PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:giuspen/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cherrytree

https://launchpad.net/~giuspen/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

Debian 12 cherrytree_1.0.1-2~Debian12_amd64.deb
Debian 11 cherrytree_1.0.1-2~Debian11_amd64.deb
Debian 10 cherrytree_1.0.1-2~Debian10_amd64.deb

Fedora 38 cherrytree-1.0.1~Fedora38_amd64.rpm
Fedora 37 cherrytree-1.0.1~Fedora37_amd64.rpm
Fedora 31+ see https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bcotton/cherrytree/

AppImage CherryTree-1.0.1-x86_64.AppImage (all in one file, after downloading make it executable and then run it from a terminal or just double click)

Flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.giuspen.cherrytree

Snap https://snapcraft.io/cherrytree

Mac OS X Installer (by @dehesselle) https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/cherrytree_macos/-/releases
or Homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cherrytree
or Mac Ports https://ports.macports.org/port/cherrytree

Microsoft windows installer: cherrytree_1.0.1.0_win64_setup.exe [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_setup.exe]

Microsoft windows portable archive: cherrytree_1.0.1.0_win64_portable.7z (look for mingw64/bin/cherrytree.exe; for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt) [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_win32_portable.7z]

sha256sum *
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818f72d7693d7f103b59f1a5540d42f42249e51ced3bdbbb62ad9171efc298a0 cherrytree_1.0.1.tar.xz
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e275adf6cbff0416f664c3be485f1bf5f938e3e40a74512093959021feb093f5 CherryTree-1.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
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1e6f3e3f452a9b30dec8de23234e2208b324537e144cf6ce6cf9e4fdf00bb817 cherrytree_1.0.1-2~Debian11_amd64.deb
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509ba52d7cf1880493c423828f30c68c9e1f65a513af625286e754ba7053ee25 cherrytree-1.0.1~Fedora38_amd64.rpm
2003006b0b6f295b14cd0608fc03d6a4c084d16307676ba6947a98d218c0c1f1 cherrytree-1.0.1~Fedora37_amd64.rpm

resides in applications–accessories–cherrytree

download testing version:

source code :

the source code is version controlled with git and hosted by github.
you can get a clone of the cherrytree git repository issuing the command:

git clone https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree.git
git submodule update --init