Thread: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
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conny is offline conny
2010-03-12 , 11:19
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#318
Originally Posted by sorodoros View Post
True, "usable" is certainly subjective.

I did try to open the Conboy notes in Tomboy, but nothing happened. Looks like there still needs to be a conversion of some sort?
The note needs not to be converted. Conboy and Tomboy share the same file format. What desktop OS are you using? You need to copy the .note files into a directory Tomboy knows about. The directories are listed here: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Directories
Also you should activate the "Note Directory Watcher" add-in in Tomboy. This plugin automatically loads new notes once they have been placed into the right directory.

Assuming Tomboy can read Conboy, (is it the only way to read/edit a Conboy file?) I would be very happy to use both if I could get it to work, and if there were a simple-non-terminal way for Tomboy to fetch a Conboy note off my n900, but it doesn't look like that is supported.
You can read and write the .note files comfortably using Tomboy, GNote or Conboy. Using one of those application you'll have a note editing user interface. The other way to edit them is by using a text editor. You'll then have to edit the raw XML, which is probably not what you want.

I still think that Conboy could export/copy a note to any directory as an editable file (XML, RTF, etc.) I guess consider that a feature request.
That's what I've said earlier. It's technically not a big problem to write such a converter and if someone sends me the code, I'm very happy to integrate it into Conboy.

Did you try the latest -devel version? It offers synchronization between Conboy <-> Ubuntu One <-> Tomboy. Maybe that's what you're looking for?

Or do you really just want an RTF, HTML representation of your note? What is your use case?
 

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