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Syncing Tomboy Notes with Dropbox 11 October, 2008

…It’s just easy as creating a Tomboy folder inside Dropbox’s Shares and do a local synchronization!

Posted in Dropbox, English, GNOME, Nessuna |

15 Replies

1. Jeff Waugh said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 14:29

   Oh, good call!

2. Jeff Waugh said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 14:30

   btw, check out my tango/gnome smilies plugin for WordPress.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tango-smilies/

3. Livio said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 14:32

   Nice idea .

   PS: Share your GTK theme, please :] .

4. Tom said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 15:06

   No closed source software for me. Thank you very much.

   Open source can do the same thing. It is not like Linux is missing network enabled file systems.

5. Cimi said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 18:50

   @2:
   Thanks jess, I’ve tried them but with this dark theme they look blurred

6. Craig said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 18:52

   I like the font rendering in your screenshot. Can you talk to what fonts, version of Freetype, patches etc, you are using to get this?

7. Cimi said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 18:55

   @6:
   It’s default Sans with subpixel and hinting low/slight. You can do it with gnome’s appearance applet

8. deno said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 20:05

   I’m using mount –bind to synchronize tomboy, that way you don’t have to click “Synchronize” manually.

9. B3N said:
   11 October, 2008 alle 20:55

   What theme are you using?

10. peder said:
    12 October, 2008 alle 17:29

    That, sir, is nice.

11. Rory McCann said:
    13 October, 2008 alle 1:03

    Nice theme! What is is?

12. Pascal Lim said:
    14 October, 2008 alle 3:16

    Really nice, hey cimmi what font/font-settings are you using? it’s gorgeous

13. stephen o'grady said:
    14 October, 2008 alle 22:26

    you can also just simlink from inside the Dropbox directory, to create a pointer from there to .tomboy. works here, anyway

14. Sandy said:
    15 October, 2008 alle 0:34

    @deno and @stephen o’grady: That won’t work if you use those instances of Tomboy simultaenously, as Tomboy doesn’t watch for changes to its note files. You could experience badness if you’re not careful.

15. Richard Venneman said:
    21 December, 2008 alle 19:56

    @Sandy:
    I’m currently using the symlink method for my Tasques which works well.
    With Tomboy I’ve been trying the Dropbox Synchronisation method as described above. However I’ve experienced badness when I synced today; almost all of my notes were lost. I had to restore the manifest.xml from Dropbox web UI.
    So can you tell me how to step-by-step sync Tomboy notes w/ Dropbox on two pc’s?

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