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Hey I've recently been using a super-handy web service called Simplenote (ref: http://simplenoteapp.com/ ) to be able to write notes on my PC or phone collectively and add to / edit them from anywhere, and figured there should be an app or desktop widget that handles this, as opening up the web browser every time I want to write a five-second note seems rather clunky.

...and then I discovered the iPhones already have an app for it (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOvGKqlUUIA ) and got really jealous. If someone could look into making a simple widget for this, or something similar, it'd be so handy for a lot of people

Have you seen http://www.evernote.com ?

And theres a nice native app in the repos http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qvernote/

You're in luck, I'm in the final stages of finishing mine :-)

It's already functional, I'm just trying to perfect the error-handlling for the online sync, where a number of things can go wrong.

If you want to help me test I can include you in the private beta :-)

It's not packaged yet but as it's a PyQt app it's fairly easy to get going if you're not afraid of xterm and a couple of simple commands...

And yes, Evernote has its uses, especially for rich content, but for quick, plain-text note taking nothing beats Simplenote. I use it as a clipboard between my PCs and N900 all the time.

Hmm... seems the original poster was in such a hurry that he ran out to buy himself an iPhone ? :-)

There's one born every minute...

I'd be keen to beta test your app - I'm not afraid of xterm

Good boy - okay then, I'll whip something together for you :-)

Did you try conboy ? It s sync with Tomboy on linux, win and MaxOSX via ubuntu one webservices.

Did you try conboy ? It s sync with Tomboy on linux, win and MaxOSX via ubuntu one webservices.

Conboy is much, much lighter than Evernote, but still somewhat heavier than Simplenote (plain text vs. XML). And there seemed to be a lot of sync problems at first. Simplenote is easier to hack

Okay jedi, if you're still around here's something for you. I fixed a couple of bugs along the way :-)

I put the .tgz inside a .zip else I couldn't upload it here...

Just unpack it somewhere on your N900, look at the README and tell me how it goes...

May the force be with ya :-)

snxm.zip