Are there any alternatives to Microsoft Office Visio for Ubuntu?
Ubuntu – n alternative to Microsoft Office Visio
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It's coming to LibreOffice now. Expect it in v3.5.
Zim
Zim is a similar note taking application with wiki like features. Zim supports rich text formatting, links between notes and to external resources, inline images and even LaTeX equations. It has a familiar 'notebook' layout with tabs.
Here is a quick screenshot demonstrating some of the features:
Zim is extendible using plugins - such as the LaTeX plugin. There are lots more. Here is the list of default plugins (you may need to install dependencies of some):
- Calendar
- Create Note (from command line for keyboard shortcuts etc.)
- Diagram Editor (using graphviz)
- Equation Editor (using LaTeX)
- GNU R Plot Editor
- Insert Screenshot (using scrot)
- Insert Symbol
- Link Map (using graphviz)
- Spell Checker
- Task List
- Tray Icon (actually an application indicator)
- Version Control (using bzr - this should make synchronisation and back up really easy)
The only feature it seems to be missing is Ubuntu One synchronisation like with Tomboy, however, if you use the default Notes directory (~/Notes), you can synchronise this over Ubuntu One, as your notes as held in files in this folder.
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I especially like yEd.
DIA is unusable in comparison. I still wonder how I managed to document my Bachelor's Thesis using it. Try aligning objects in DIA, try creating any diagram so that it doesn't look like it was done in 3 minutes.