Tomboy notes
October 3, 2008 at 5:32 pm
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Currently I am using a tool called Tomboy to store notes and other information. Tomboy allows you to store notes with wiki linking and formatting. There are also plugins that allow you to add sketches to notes, set reminders and add the current time and date to a note.
It is also possible to export notes in various different formats and, thanks to the d-bus interface, possible to interact with Tomboy programmatically. In short Tomboy is an excellent tool for Linux users — and hopefully soon for windows users.
About Tomboy
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.
Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems?
Time for Tomboy. We bet you’ll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.
Tomboy is currently in pre-release development, but you can still try it out. Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.
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Omnifocus for iPhone/iPod Touch
September 25, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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Omnifocus for iPhone
I have recently started using Omnifocus on my iPod Touch in order better manage my tasks. What follows is a short review of the application - what it does well, where it could be improved and my general impressions of it.
Firstly, from the Omnifocus site itself to give you an idea of what the application does, and what it is designed for.
“OmniFocus for the iPhone brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of actions by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, tasks for home, and any other lists you need.
Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list.
Capture tasks anywhere, anytime with OmniFocus: you can enter text, take a picture, or even make a quick voice recording.
Synchronize OmniFocus with your Mac using the OS X version available separately from omnigroup.com/omnifocus.”
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Using the Wordpress iTouch client
July 26, 2008 at 3:52 pm
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iPod Touch
I have recently downloaded the Wordpress client for the iTouch and iPhone and started playing about with it.
First impressions are that it is very straightforward to set up your blog for use with it. I was running a slightly out of date version of wordpress, which the application warned me about. A quick upgrade to the latest version and we were good to go.
Writing on the iTouch is not the most pleasant experience, but the Wordpress client is easy to use in spite of this, providing a means to compose offline and update when safely back within range of a wifi network. Interestingly it has everything working that you can do through the web version, with the exception of being able to add pictures to a post. I’m going to try it for a bit longer before passing any judgement, but it seems a very promising app, with the added bonus of being zero cost.
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Another week
February 9, 2007 at 9:57 pm
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Hopefully during the next week I should have time to work on several open source projects for a few days. Trouble is… where is the best place to begin? There are so many good projects out there, covering a wide variety of applications, tools and other things, that it is hard to know where to contribute to make a difference.
What I would be interested in, however, is something that makes organising (yes, this is British English after all 
information, and retrieving it easier. Unfortunately, there are a number of projects out there, that whilst good, have no intention of moving into the arena I’m interested in. Several of these applications are Tomboy, Labyrinth to name two in particular. Where I would like to see the two of these projects going is in the direction that neither seems to be taking, namely that of allowing information to be structured in a way that mirrors the brain. I would like to see Tomboy develop a viewing layer on top of the xml data that allows data to be viewed in more than one way, perhaps through the use of xslt and plugins designed to be used with this. It would need two way transformation, as well as the ability to edit in any form. I think this is a pretty tall order. However, the program is not currently structured to allow this.
The above is not a criticism as such of Tomboy, for it is far far better than any desktop tool I’ve seen before, but rather an indication of the direction I’d like to see it take. Unfortunately, if you look at the website, it seems to be merely replicating the functionality of a wiki on the desktop, albeit very elegantly. Having said the above, it is a tool I use daily, and is miles ahead of any windows program that attempts to do a similar job.
Labyrinth, which someone has mentioned as a possible link in to tomboy is again another very useful tool, although not yet as mature as Tomboy. When I say mature I mean its practicality in using the tool everyday is not quite as good as Tomboy, although it is still a pretty useful thing.
I particularly like the idea of a labyrinth style display onto files and folders, showing how they are related in a non-hierarchical manner, such as libraries used by this program, source files for it, and header files and so forth.
I hope to write sometime about Beagle, which is a tool I love and hate at the same time. This relationship will become more clear when I have formulated the post.
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Somebody help this guy
January 17, 2006 at 5:46 pm
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...A Project to use Microsoft’s ActiveSync to syncronise Pocket Outlook Mail and Contacts with Mozilla’s Thunderbird E-Mail Client. If you would like to help out contact me. Especially on how to use the Sourceforge CVS under XP Pro.
Full details can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tb-sync/
It doesn’t seem to be in a very advanced state. Perhaps someone could help him out with using the sourceforge cvs under Windows XP.
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Playing with Xinha
December 9, 2005 at 10:08 pm
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...It seems like absolutely ages since I last posted here, and it may well be. I seem to have been busy working and trying to get Christmas sorted. I’ve also been playing about with xinha, after seeing the excellent xinha4wp plugin for wordpress. I am about to release some code which will be open source, based off the Wakka Wiki source code, and released to the general public. But first I need to tidy up the code.
I expect that this will be met with a deafening wall of silence, as pretty much no one is reading this, but at least it gives me something to do.
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