Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. previewed on linux.com I haven't tried it but it looks cool. provided link to it's homepage on sourceforge.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143177 ***
whoops had a server error...(bugzilla end) didn't realise the original made it through. it said changes not submitted so I submitted again...