Sync Tomboy Notes with UbuntuOne
For those who use Ubuntu’s inclusion of Tomboy notes, the easiest way to synchronize and share your notes automatically with all your Ubuntu computers is by using your Ubuntu One account rather than WebDAV or SSH. Ubuntu One is a Dropbox type of service by Canonical.
To do this go to Tomboy’s Preferences; in the Synchronization tab, set the sync Service to “Local Folder”. In the “Folder Path” place the path to a sub-folder in your Ubuntu One/My Files directory. The Ubuntu One directory is located in your Home directory. I created a folder in My Files directory and called it Tomboy. Now hit “Save” to synchronize all your Tomboy Notes.
Now each time you create a new note, synchronize it via Tools -> Synchronize.
Also try out Tomfox; the Firefox add-on that adds “Create Tomboy Note”option to Firefox’s right click menu. This extension has not yet been updated for Firefox 3.5.
Starting in Karmic (Tomboy 1.0), this process will be a lot more simple:
You will simply do the following:
- Edit –> Preferences –> Synchronization tab
- For Service select “Tomboy Web”
- Set the Server text input field to https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/
- Click on the Connect to Server button
- Your browser should open a login page for UbuntuOne if you need to create an account.
- Then you can just hit Save on the Synchronization tab
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