Evernote sync

[Shai Inbal]

Hi there,
I'm a great fan of tomboy on my ubuntu netbook, but also of evernote  
on my iphone and my work windows pc. As for now, it seems that there's  
no intention of porting evernote for linux, but there's been some  
discussions about a syncing plugin in the tomboy team. It's even in  
the roadmap at the website!

I wanted to ask about the progress of making the evernote sync plugin.  
Who is working on this? How can i help? I'm not much of a programmer,  
but i can beta test & report bugs.

Cheers,

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[Sandy Armstrong]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Shai Inbal <shai.calcalist@...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm a great fan of tomboy on my ubuntu netbook, but also of evernote on my
> iphone and my work windows pc. As for now, it seems that there's no
> intention of porting evernote for linux, but there's been some discussions
> about a syncing plugin in the tomboy team. It's even in the roadmap at the
> website!

The Tomboy team is not working on Evernote sync, and it is not on our
roadmap, which you can check out here:

http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap

It has been suggested as a useful feature on the PlaceForNewIdeas
page, but nobody has shared any actual code, as far as I am aware.

> I wanted to ask about the progress of making the evernote sync plugin. Who
> is working on this? How can i help? I'm not much of a programmer, but i can
> beta test & report bugs.

Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
finding/paying somebody to write code).  Otherwise, I suggest staying
subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
start such a project.

Sorry I don't have better news for you.  On the plus side, Tomboy is
available for Windows.  If it becomes available for iPhone I'm sure
that would be announced here as well.

Sandy
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[Alberto Fornasier]

2009/10/27 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
> Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
> time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
> finding/paying somebody to write code).  Otherwise, I suggest staying
> subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
> start such a project.

I'm interested in some form of sync with Evernote too. I use Tomboy
both on my netbook and my work laptop. Having them sync'd through the
cloud would allow me to access them from my mobile (Android based
smartphone in case you're interested) easily.
even though this idea sounds great, I was wondering how exactly a
plugin or other kind of software implementing this feature should
work.
Sending note files as they are, with tags and all kind of metadata,
probably isn't a good idea: tuu much stuff that gets in the way when
you try to read the note through web/desktop app/mobile app. Some kind
of editing must be done before sending the content to Evernote (using
the HTML export feature maybe?).
Even if we/you can manage to export the notes in a readable format,
how would the plugin know which note it has to update when you start
the sync? Some exploration of the capabilities of Evernote's desktop
app (closed source and Windows only, though it runs fine in wine) may
do the trick here, if there's some way to access its database
directly. Syncing through it could even be simple and wouldn't be too
restricting, because everyone using Evernote probably has the desktop
app installed on every pc where he/she has Tomboy.
I'll try and browse the docs of the app. Has anyone started
researching on this subject?
Do you have any idea about how this feature should work?

> Sorry I don't have better news for you.  On the plus side, Tomboy is
> available for Windows.  If it becomes available for iPhone I'm sure
> that would be announced here as well.

Yes, Tomboy on Windows runs fine. Some kind of Android
port/app/whatever would be nice too ;)
Jokes aside, and sorry for the partial thread hijacking: does anyone
here know whether there's some kind of application around to read/sync
tomboy notes on an Android device?

Bye
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[Cornelius Hald]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:28 +0100, Alberto Fornasier wrote:
> Yes, Tomboy on Windows runs fine. Some kind of Android
> port/app/whatever would be nice too ;)
> Jokes aside, and sorry for the partial thread hijacking: does anyone
> here know whether there's some kind of application around to read/sync
> tomboy notes on an Android device?

Have a look at Tomdroid. The author is also on this list.
https://launchpad.net/tomdroid

Cheers!
Conny


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[Sandy Armstrong]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alberto Fornasier <gimli@...> wrote:

> 2009/10/27 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
>> Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
>> time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
>> finding/paying somebody to write code).  Otherwise, I suggest staying
>> subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
>> start such a project.
>
> I'm interested in some form of sync with Evernote too. I use Tomboy
> both on my netbook and my work laptop. Having them sync'd through the
> cloud would allow me to access them from my mobile (Android based
> smartphone in case you're interested) easily.

In this case, what we are pushing for is to use a Tomboy-specific
online service for syncing your notes, and then to use Tomdroid on
your Android device.  This is still work-in-progress, but I hope it
will all be ready by the time Tomboy 1.2 is released in March.

Right now you can use Canonical's proprietary Ubuntu One service to
sync your notes to the cloud, and soon we will be releasing Tomboy
Online, which is just a hosted instance of our AGPL Snowy software.
This means that anyone with the desire to host their own personal
Tomboy Online could do so.  Other online services like Midgard are
also compatible with Tomboy's web synchronization.

With both of these services, you should be able to browse your notes
from any web browser on any device.  But there is a branch of Tomdroid
which supports synchronization with these services, and hopefully that
will be merged for release soon.

As for the rest of your post, I really don't know anything about
Evernote, and can't really help.  But other people on this list have
expressed interest in syncing with Evernote, so maybe there are some
people out there who already have ideas on how to implement
Tomboy<->Evernote sync.

Sandy
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