Re: Volunteering to write a sync to Everrnote

> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Cain Hopwood <cain@...> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I'm a heavy Evernote user and would like to see a proper Linux client.
>> Hunting around I found Tomboy, and your plug in architecture seems
>> like it would lend itself nicely to writing a connector to the
>> Evernote API. And I see that it's a task that on your roadmap as well.
>
> Very cool!  Just so you know, Evernote support isn't actually on our
> roadmap [0], but it is a frequently requested feature by some of our
> users [1][2], so I'm glad somebody has stepped up to start working on
> it!
>
>> Finally I thought I'd announce what I'm doing so that if someone here
>> happened to be already working on the same thing we could join forces.
>> There's no point duplicating effort. Also, if the group has some
>> fundamental philosophical objection to what I'm doing that would be
>> nice to know before I invest a lot of time in the project.
>
> We are all for interoperability between Tomboy and other note-taking
> apps/services.  You may run into problems if Evernote and Tomboy lack
> some of the same features, but that's expected.  If you want to work
> on adding Evernote features into the core of Tomboy, it's best to
> probably collaborate on that.  But hopefully you'll find that you can
> do a lot from a simple add-in.  :-)
>
>> I shouldn't need much help. But if I do, am I correct in assuming this
>> is the place to post technical questions?
>
> Yup.  We also hang out in IRC, in the #tomboy channel on GIMPNet.
>
> Good luck, have fun, and let us know if you need any help.
>
> Sandy
>
> [0] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas?highlight=%28evernote%29
> [2] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PluginList?highlight=%28evernote%29
>