refdb implements a few backends to output extended notes. You can select them with the -t option of the getnote command.
The screen backend provides the output most suitable for viewing notes in a terminal. Send the output through a pager for best results. Use the -s NL or -s ALL options to display all objects the note is linked to.
The information returned by this backend is encoded as a HTML document. Otherwise the same applies as said for the scrn backend. See above for some hints about formatting the output with a CSS file.
The output is the same as for the html backend but the output is formatted as an XHTML document according to the XHTML V1.0 Transitional DTD.