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Conboy for N9(50) - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
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Hi All,
I've attached the first alpha version of Conboy for MeeGo Harmattan. It should run on the Nokia N9 and N950. It's probably full of bugs and missing features. Still, feedback and contributions are very welcome. There is currently still no sync or import. Instead you have to copy your Tomboy (or Conboy) notes into /home/user/.conboy/ Have fun! Conny |
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Is sync coming? Sync in general is still very poorly supported on the N9 - for general data (as opposed to emails and calendars) there simply isn't any way of doing it yet.
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why don't you upload some screenshots to give us a better idea of your app?
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Also to get a general idea hava a look at that page which describes the Maemo5 version. http://conboy.garage.maemo.org/ |
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Here's what it looks like when you fire it up: http://i39.tinypic.com/1zykhg0.png Works in landscape too: http://i44.tinypic.com/so73fc.png Press the little '+' at bottom left to start entering a note: http://i44.tinypic.com/j7x0k9.png The tabs at the top left get you the bullets. The 'T' to the right gets you some font choices: http://i42.tinypic.com/s1s3zn.png Note the little issue here, at least using the Swype keyboard, of there not being quite enough room, so the bottom gets cut off a bit. You can pull that font menu up though to increase the hit area for the bottom buttons. I am not sure what the button on the top extreme right ('ab') is for; pressing it revealed that it can be set on or off, but I don't know what the effect is (it wasn't immediately apparent). I also noticed a slight flakiness in getting the keyboard to display; sometimes I had to move the cursor around a bit to get it to come up. Also in the 10 minutes I used the application it crashed and quit on me once. This is an alpha release though, so I expect these glitches will get fixed. In this edit screen if you get the keyboard out of the way it reveals the menu button at the bottom right; pressing this gets you: http://i40.tinypic.com/30i9v6r.png What sharing options will there be when this is finished? Back at the main screen, the menu button on the bottom right gets you this list of options: http://i39.tinypic.com/ix58yg.png I'd be interested to know what we'll see under 'Settings' and how 'Synchronization' works. Finally, I tried the search option, but while searching in note titles gets you results, apparently searching within notes is not (yet) supported: http://i41.tinypic.com/97ilc7.png Will this feature be coming? All in all, I'd say this is looking really, really promising. Simple, slick, straightforward, with the functionality you need, and consistent with the overall UI paradigms of the N9/Harmattan. Wish all apps could be like this! |
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I've just compiled a new version. Major new feature in this version is note linking. You can create a link by selecting text and then pressing the button in the middle of the top bar. Also while you type it will automatically create links to already existing notes.
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Don't hesitate to give feedback. My current TODO list can be found here: https://gitorious.org/conboy2/conboy2/blobs/master/TODO |
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Thanks for this excellent app! Have been using it since N900.
I'd however like to bring up a major bug that makes the application almost useless in horizontal orientation. When the text length increases, the active row with cursor falls behind the virtual keyboard (normal vkb, not swype). When you scroll the visible area down so that you can see the active row and start to write again, it falls behind the vkb again. For this reason you actually have to write 'blind' all the time. So the automatic scrolling needs some refinement. A copy/paste function would also be VERY useful. Maybe this is coming with PR1.2 where universal copy/paste will be implemented? |
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Thanks for the bug report. You're right it's not working correctly in landscape mode. I've only tried landscape mode using the hardware keyboard. I'll do some more testing with the VKB and try to come up with a solution.
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