Zim is a graphical text editor and organizer with wiki-like features such as linking to other pages in a notebook. Zim stores data in plain text for simplicity and transparency. Among other uses, zim can be effective for brainstorming, note-taking, and making task lists. Zim can optionally use pyxdg and xdg-utils (http://portland.freedesktop.org/download/) for additional freedesktop.org standard support By default, zim enables the version control plugin, which can optionally use bzr.