Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

[QUOTE=etuoyo;645380]There's probably something wrong with the markup causing Conboy to not recognise it properly.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

[QUOTE=etuoyo;645380]Like Pelago wrote, probably structure of the note is corrupted. You could try to fix it using a text editor, then copy it back to /home/user/.conboy and it should be recognized. Look a the structure of a working note to see how it should look like. Or, if you don't have very personal stuff in that note, send it to me via PM and I see what I can do. Of course, copy and paste would work as well ;)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

[QUOTE=conny;646531]Thanks. I just edited it with the note app and then pasted it back into Conboy as a new note. At least now I know all is not lost when I have a random shut down whilst using Conboy

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

It is probably around here somewhere in this thread, but I am on a slow connection so I'll just put a howto on what I did.

You need:

PC:
Ubuntu 9.04 or higher
Tomboy

Tablet:
Maemo 4 OS 2008 or Maemo 5
Conboy

Cloud:
Ubuntu one Account

1) Subscribe to Ubuntu one. Briefly, ubuntu one is a cloud based file storage like dropbox and others. It has the added benefit of being syncing tomboy notes and making them available on the ubuntu one site.

Follow the instructions here that are appropriate for your system. On 9.10 and up the ubutnu one application part is preinstalled. If on 9.04 you can install per the instructions above.

2) Grab Tomboy:
3) Grab conboy from the repositories if you do not have it installed.

4) Backup your notes directory! If you are starting fresh no worries but every once I've seen reports of people loosing notes here and there. If you have a bunch of notes directory on your tablet or on our pc back those up. The notes are in:

/home/user/.conboy/ on the tablet
and
~/.local/share/tomboy/ for the latest tomboy on the ubuntu box

just do a
and a
5) Sync tomboy:
There are instructions for this in the help section under syncing. Essentially go to preferences and use 'tomboy web' as the service provider put in:
https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/ for the server and connect. You will get an authorization screen from ubuntu one. Once you enter your user name and password you are good to go with tomboy.

6) Sync conboy:
goto to the settings and enter
Enter in http://one.ubuntu.com/notes/ in the address bar (on the n800 version its the text field to the left of the authenticate button).
Hit the authenticate and a browser will open and allow you to enter your username and password for ubuntu one.

Now your notes should be synced! Its helpful to note that your notes are also kept at https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/ . You can review or add notes by dropping that into a browser and logging in. Then those notes will appear on your pc and tabler when you sync them. Hope this helps!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

delighted to have notes syncing with conboy/tomboy.

Only issue i have (and i realise it early days) is that notebooks sync as 'blah blah Template'.

Other than that i'm delighted.

Thanks Conny

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Okay I think I am coming towards the end of my interest in the N900. Too much of a frusrating experience so far and now my device is only charging from PC. Considering if I put on any IM accounts I have to charge 3 times a day this is far from ideal.

The only thing causing me to continue to hold on to my N900 is Conboy as I really cannot manage without its usefulness an awesomeness. However, no point keeping a brick which is only useful as a note taking device.

So does anyone know if there is any app on android that comes even remotely close to the awesomeness of Conboy?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Glad you like it :) Just a warning: There are also issues, if you delete notes.

I hope to find some time for coding soon again. At the moment it's a bit of a mess. New job, new flat, no proper internet connection, problems with the SDK, etc.... But there is hope (hopefully) ;)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I only have to charge every 2nd day, but yea, the N900 isn't perfect. Anyways, I'm really happy about your high opinion on Conboy - always nice to read it :) Did you look into Tomdroid? It's Tomboy for Android. Not sure how far they are, but the last time I checked they were talking about synchronization as well. I hope you'll find something that suits your needs!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

speaking of sync... something happened to the one.ubuntu server this morning (broken), and when I sync'd with Conboy it crashed repeatedly. Now that one.ubuntu is back up I cannot sync at all: I get this error:
"json_get_note_list() returned NULL"

Is there some XTerm code I can run to reset the Conboy cache, or some other fix?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Try to redo the authentication process from Conboy. Delete the URL, enter it again, click "Authenticate" and follow the usual steps. That should reset all local sync information.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I did actually do that before without any success, but I just did it again also without success. I sync with two other computers and they sync normally. Should I de-authorize them as well? Or is there a more direct way to reset Conboy?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Same problem and same errors for me.

Reauthenticate doesn't fix the problem, i got also many errors these days using tomboy sync on win and linux (one.ubuntu servers are still beta :) )

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Not good and I can't test it at the moment... You might try the following in xterm:
That should reset the sync stuff, but probably it won't work as the same happens if you re-authorize. If that doesn't work, I'll have to find out what they changed :(

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

You are right, the xterm code did nothing. I also tried uninstalling/reinstalling Conboy and that did not work either.

For better or worse, I have become dependent on Conboy, so any time you can find to fix this would be greatly appreciated. The good news is that Conboy/one.ubuntu/Tomboy sync has run flawlessly until now.

As a precaution I copied/uploaded the notes that did not sync from Conboy to my EverNote account so that I can get them into Tomboy and then sync to the sync-able computers - but it looks like Conboy sync is gone. :(

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I'll look into it, but I doubt it'll be before the weekend - sorry :/

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

sync is working for me right now.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

There might be an update in extras-devel soon. but that is only a test build because of optification problems. No new features or sync changes. So don't get high hopes ;)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Glad I am not the only one, though both my Win and Mac Tomboys are still syncing normally. For me it is only Conboy.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Still waiting for PR 1.2? Got 2 minutes time to spare? It would be great if you guys could vote for the following two bugs. They seriously hinder Conboy development and I'm getting tired of waiting. Maybe some more votes will help...

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6263
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

Thanks :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Voted for both. Hope that helps.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I voted for both as well.
Trying to install it (via apt-get), I got an error message that said a package could not be authenticated, doing an "apt-get update" solved the problem and now I am very happy with conboy.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

There have been two updates, latest at 0.6.3.9 - since they do not seem to address the sync issues, I assume they are for something else?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Jup, as I said earlier, those are test builds as there have been some patches included by other people and we need to make sure that everything still builds on the maemo infrastructure. Also some tests have been done regarding those bugs posted earlier.

There will probably be more test builds during the next days. If I find time to actually implement real functionality (read sync), I´ll let you know right here :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Got it. Thx.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

FYI, I was just able to update/sync Conboy successfully, even though the same error occurred. Specifically, *to* Conboy only was updated. When I tried to sync new data *from* Conboy it crashed, and no changes to the server occurred.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

yea, that crash is a result of the u1 servers not working. I have to check that error condition. The main problem now is that u1 returns a 500 server error. I hope they will fix that soon, otherwise I can't do developement over the weekend :(

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Here is what the U1 web site is currently saying:
I've added a check, so the next version won't crash in that case and instead displays a dialog.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Great app. I'm enjoying it greatly -- particularly now that I have sync working with Ubuntu One and my Win7 box. But I have one puzzlement...

Under "Settings" there is a checkbox option labeled "XML Storage Backend". I've never seen anyone mention it here. I have looked at the raw data files and seen that they are XML or at least XML-like. So what would happen if I unchecked that box? It doesn't seem to make sense that the XML files would disappear or go unused. (Where would the data be then?)

And since it _is_ an option, what's the use case for UNselecting "XML Storage Backend"?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

The u1 servers appear to be up and running this morning. I was able to sync all my Tomboys.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Yea, that's a bit confusing and I should probably do something about it. If you install more plug-ins (there is currently only conboy-midgard) it will make more sense, because then you can choose which plug-ins should be activated. If, however, you only have the default plug-in (which is the XML backend) it dosn't make sens to deactivate it. If you deactivate it, Conboy is simply useless :)
I should probably implement, that if there is only one plug-in, then the selection should not be shown at all. I'll see what I can do.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

If you're reworking this part, maybe rather than having the plugins listed directly in the Settings dialogue, there could be a "Plugins" button in the Settings dialogue which brings up a separate dialogue listing the plugins.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

@ Conny

Just FYI: I can consistently sync *to* Conboy from 1u. I still get the NULL error, but it syncs correctly. I cannot sync *from* Conboy to 1u. Any changes to any note are removed/disappears and the error message appears.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

That´s probably because we first fetch new stuff from the server, then push our local changes to the server. The second step seems to fail.

My guess is, that you have a local note, that U1 does not like. To investigate this, you could start Conboy from xterm, then run the sync and post the output you get in xterm here or send it via PM.

Another thing you could try (after the above) is, to quite Conboy, delete all notes from /home/user/.conboy/, restart Conboy, reauth and sync.

This should give you a clean copy of all notes on the server and sync should (TM) work again for you. However you will loose changes that you might have in your local notes.

Thanks for testing :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I went for broke and jumped into xterm, deleted all the notes, reauth'd and sync'd... and success! Perfect sync both directions. Thanks for the support :D

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

My Story: Got bored with Windows XP crashing all the time and installed Linux Mint.

Decided to use Tomboy instead of Evernote (as I knew that it would be compatible with Conboy on my N900 and the new Sync feature looked good). It was already installed on my Linux desktop (plus the latest version of Evernote does not work with WINE).

Installed the new (alpha) version of Conboy on my N900, installed Tomboy for Windows on my work PC.

They all sync fabulously! I can't thank you enough. The ability to sync and have my notes and to do lists anywhere I am makes this a bit of a killer app.

I think it now must be my favourite app on my phone. It actually helps my life instead of just helping me to fill time when I'm bored.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks guys, I'm always very happy to hear your success stories :)

Still, I really have to warn you. Make backups and don't rely on the sync feature just yet. There are still known (and unknown) issues. I'm working on it, but I'm personally still not using sync with my "production" notes.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks again and warning noted! I'll back up my notes asap just in case.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Hey conny, and news on supporting Share plugins (evernote)?

I've seen it mentioned throughout this thread!

Thanks for the great app btw :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

No, nothing new. Shouldn't be hard, but my priorities are still with U1 sync. If you find someone who is good with XSLT and has a couple of spare hours, please tell me.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Okay, I'll keep my eye out, although I doubt I will!

Can't wait until this is integrated - I honestly use Evernote daily, and it would make my life a helluvalot easier than using email to get notes in their system!