Thanks for the port! Some first thoughts... Not important, but I used the maemo2 .deb and don't have an icon in App Mgr (i.e., in Extras) as I think you intended.
The Search All Notes function doesn't work for me, neither from the Menu nor from the Toolbar Icon. A dialog window pops up very briefly and disappears without giving me a chance to ask for anything.
I don't know much about this, but I would think that the file structure is such that even upstream we're not likely to get Import or Export. Every note is its own folder and the outline tree corresponds to folders within folders. I don't know how most apps like this work, but I've imagined something like a single file, or a small set number of files, with a database structure. Those strike me as easier to put it into comma-delimited form or some other form conducive to data import and export. If I'm right on this, then I don't think we're going to see any synchronization with online personal information managers, either.
On the Windows version, I can Search All Notes, but the Find in Page function doesn't work.
So while the app seems like it has a lot of potential, I'm reluctant to depend on it without any ability to import and export; and lacking the Search All Notes in maemo and the Find in Page in Windows makes it not something I'd be willing yet to put my notes into. If you want me to play with it more, though, I'd be happy to as a sort of beta-tester for your port.
If you, Brent, were the creator of this little app, believe it or not, I'd have the sort of confidence in it that businesses have traditionally put in Microsoft! By which I mean, Microsoft had a habit of introducing crappy products but businesses adopted them anyway on the principle that eventually Microsoft would make them work. For me, Outlook is the prime example of that, since businesses deserted good PIMs for Outlook quite early on, even though it was universally recognized that the early Outlook releases sucked. You've done such a dynamite job on Quick Clip, that I'd believe that KeepNotes would get really good. But since you're only porting it, I'm not sure it will ever be really great on maemo.
You know, also, KeepNotes is actually very similar to khertan's (Benoit Hervier's) mNotes, which he developed from the ground up for maemo. mNotes is a little simpler, which I prefer. Unfortunately, it appears that khertan (Benoit) has abandoned development. I don't know if mNotes is written in Python, but maybe you could take it over from him if it is a Python program and he's no longer interested. That post above shows at least what I think needs to be done with it. Or, to beat an old drum, I bet it would be relatively easy for you to make something like QuickDex in Python and have it able to import and export (which would make Un27Pee, and me and uncounted others*, happy). *I used to have an album called Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits, and on the back it exclaimed: "50 Phil Ochs Fans Can’t Be Wrong!"