Other Tomboy Stuff: On Blogging, Synchronization of Notes

So I was using Tomboy the other day when I realized how weird it was. All of a sudden it was not posting to my blog and it just quit each time I tried to post a particular note. I tried so hard to figure out what the culprit was. It was “>” (or the greater than symbol) I used that character to draw an arrow of sorts on my blog entry.

Apparently it won’t post a note with that character. I am not sure why. I am not sure what is a good work around if you do need to post a blog entry with that character.  Maybe it didn’t post because it was something used in HTML?  I should probably read up on bug reports to find out if other characters will make posting to a blog problematic.  In any case, just avoid it so you won’t experience what I did.

Another thing is that you can’t post links with link text to other articles through Tomboy. You will end up posting with the entire URL showing. So using this as a blogging client works best if you will work mainly with text.

Another nifty thing you could do with Tomboy: Synchronize your notes with another computer via Dropbox

tomboy and dropbox

I know I’ve blogged about Dropbox before because it’s one of the nicest things I’ve encountered in the past year. If you haven’t tried Dropbox yet, maybe the fact that you could synchronize your Tomboy notes on Dropbox will help you appreciate it more?

starrynote.com’s guide to using Tomboy with Dropbox will teach you how easy and awesome it is to do that. Of course it requires you to have a Dropbox account as well as Tomboy installed on your computer.

If you know of other ways to use Tomboy, maybe you could comment and share them here. Or trackback to this blog entry. Thanks and have great time using Tomboy.