Day in, day out…

I have been using Tomboy Notes on my Linux machines for more than a couple of years now. Needless to say, I often wished that notes on the other computer were also accessible to be on the one I am working on, at that moment. I was aware that it has a Synchronization option - using WebDAV. But, a few times I tried it, I was not successful at getting that to work.

Few days back, I had some success using non-Mozilla server with Weave. In the process, I got a WebDAV account at mydisk.se. Now that I had a WebDAV account, I thought I’d give Tomboy Synchronization another shot.

I built Tomboy from the latest svn source. This was easy, thanks to very clear instructions on the Tomboy Wiki.

  % cd /my/source/directory
  % svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tomboy/trunk tomboy
  % cd tomboy
  % ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/apps/tomboy \
                 --disable-scrollkeeper
  % make
  % make install

On the first synchronization attempt, I got an error indicating that fuse/wdfs was not installed. To fulfill this dependency, I did the following:

  % cd /my/source/directory
  % wget http://noedler.de/projekte/wdfs/wdfs-1.4.2.tar.gz
  % tar xzvf wdfs-1.4.2.tar.gz
  % cd wdfs-1.4.2
  % ./configure
  % make
  % sudo make install

To get wdfs installed, I had to install the glib2.0 development modules:

  % sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

With this, I was all set for the first sync. However, due to a bug, that was not quite possible. But since I had the source, and bug report has the fix, I tried it out. I built Tomboy again, with the suggested fix. It worked! I have that build available in the downloads section for trying out.

A little work, and now my Linux machines have access to all my notes and stickies! I haven’t found a Mac app that has WebDAV synchronization of notes. If there is one, I’d love to try it out. The stickies utility in Mac OS X could really use some synchronization feature - not via .me.

I use Google Notebook a lot too. So some of the Ideas for new plugins sound interesting!