[tomboy-list] Volunteering to write a sync to Everrnote

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Cain Hopwood <cain at epage.com.au> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I'm a heavy Evernote user and would like to see a proper Linux client.
> Hunting around I found Tomboy, and your plug in architecture seems
> like it would lend itself nicely to writing a connector to the
> Evernote API. And I see that it's a task that on your roadmap as well.

Very cool!  Just so you know, Evernote support isn't actually on our
roadmap [0], but it is a frequently requested feature by some of our
users [1][2], so I'm glad somebody has stepped up to start working on
it!

> Finally I thought I'd announce what I'm doing so that if someone here
> happened to be already working on the same thing we could join forces.
> There's no point duplicating effort. Also, if the group has some
> fundamental philosophical objection to what I'm doing that would be
> nice to know before I invest a lot of time in the project.

We are all for interoperability between Tomboy and other note-taking
apps/services.  You may run into problems if Evernote and Tomboy lack
some of the same features, but that's expected.  If you want to work
on adding Evernote features into the core of Tomboy, it's best to
probably collaborate on that.  But hopefully you'll find that you can
do a lot from a simple add-in.  :-)

> I shouldn't need much help. But if I do, am I correct in assuming this
> is the place to post technical questions?

Yup.  We also hang out in IRC, in the #tomboy channel on GIMPNet.

Good luck, have fun, and let us know if you need any help.

Sandy

[0] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas?highlight=%28evernote%29
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PluginList?highlight=%28evernote%29