What Is BasKet Note Pads?

BasKet Note Pads is a multi-purpose note-taking application for KDE. It is designed to capture many kinds of notes — styled text, images, links, email addresses, files, application launchers, colors, and screen grabs — and organize them in a hierarchy of "baskets" by topic or project. It suits people who want a single place to collect research, project data, and to-do lists, and who value quick capture from a background system-tray icon. The site presents version 2.11 Beta as the current download and also lists an unstable development version, 2.49a.

What you can do with it

The site describes these core uses:

• Take notes quickly — click and type; notes support styled text and more.
• Collect any data — paste images, links, email addresses, files, application launchers, and colors; grab a screen zone or pick a color from the screen.
• Organize in baskets — arrange notes in a hierarchy by topic or project, group notes, and collapse non-important groups. Notes can be auto-laid out in columns or placed manually.
• Tag notes — attach tags such as "Important," "Idea," or "Work." Tags change note appearance, and multi-state tags can create checkboxes for to-do lists, progress bars, and priority meters.
• Retrieve notes — find notes by word or tag as you type.
• Capture from anywhere — the app runs minimized in the system tray; you can add notes with one click or a keyboard shortcut, or drop items onto the tray icon.

How your data is handled

According to the site, notes are saved automatically as soon as you modify them, so manual saving is unnecessary. You can back up and restore your entire basket collection, and you can protect some or all data with a password.

Version and download notes

The site also links to "Basket on Launchpad" and notes that source code moved to Gitorious for the 2.0 line. A "Stay Tuned" heading appears on the page, and the site mentions subscribing, but no pricing or account requirements are stated.

Who it fits

BasKet fits a desktop workflow where notes of mixed types need to live together and be found fast — for example, gathering research links, screenshots, and files for one project in a single basket while keeping a tagged to-do list alongside. If you need cross-platform sync or web access, the site provides no evidence of those features; its described model is a local KDE application with tray-based capture and password protection.