[Owncloud] notes synchronization

[Florian Hülsmann]

Hey,

Some time ago I wanted to do this (synchronization with GNOME Tomboy) 
and started working on an app called "townboy" (owncloud + tomboy ^^). 
But Tomboy Sync uses OAuth for managing its clients and I then had a 
discussion with MTGap on IRC, who told me he was gonna work on an OAuth 
API that even other apps could use (correct me if I'm wrong!!), which 
totally made sense to me =) I think I'll start over making townboy as 
soon as we have such an API, but here are some important references I 
used: https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Synchronization/REST/1.0

On the other hand an "official" ownCloud notes app that can then be 
extended for support with many protocols and clients is the best 
solution. In fact the "Tasks" app is intended to provide this, but I'd 
love to have some design gurus (like Jan ;)) make it more user friendly <.<

Cheers, Florian

Am 23.07.2012 19:45, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> On 23.07.2012 19:25, rrh wrote:
> Hiho,
>
>> I’m very thrilled with the development of OwnCloud. It grows mature
>> every day.
>> I would like to ask for a feature that many of us would  find
>> interesting and
>> handy. Feature that can be a part of one’s GTD system.
>>
>> As you may know, synchronization of own notes, or access to own notes
>> across
>> machines is more and more popular. Perhaps many of you heard of
>> Evernote. Yes,
>> the same which has not a native client for LInux. :)
>>
>> Because sooner or later we get TODO lists feature in OwnCloud (as
>> Bartek told
>> me), I think that a natural step would be to add notes sync.
>>
>> Unfortunately KDE users lack such an app. Gnome/Ubuntu users have
>> Tomboy IIRC.
>> We had Basket which I used to use and which is no longer maintained.
>> And we
>> have KJots which is a part of Kontact.
> In KDE PIM we also have knotes for sticky notes.
> And there is one very interesting app called znotes [1]. That has the
> benefit that we could offer it also for Win and MacOS easily and thus
> have the next good argument to convince users on these platforms.
>
> For both it should be easy to implement syncing to ownCloud. BUT: I
> think it only makes sense if we also have good mobile clients. There are
> tons out there. Since we have influence on the desktop clients above we
> could implement a format that a good GTD client on Android or iOS
> understands. Yet I failed so far to find something that is free and well
> documented etc.
>
> If somebody comes up with a good suggestion and cares for the server
> side, I volunteer to do the desktop part.... somewhen ;-) OR even better
> do my best to help somebody else doing it.
>
> regards,
> Klaas
>
> [1] http://znotes.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> OwnCloud has many features – it even has built-in PDF viewer. But the
>> feature
>> more users would use on a daily basis is, in my humble opinion, a note
>> taking
>> app that one could use on-line or sync with other apps.
>>
>> Is it possible? Is it difficult to implement it in API? What do you
>> think of it?
>>
>> Please share your thoughts.
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>> Wojciech ‘rrh’ Ryrych
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