Using Tomboy as a Blogging Client
July 5, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under How To
We know Tomboy is this awesome sticky notes application which basically also acts like a wiki. We also know that we could organize lots of notes through ‘notebooks’ but I just learned recently that you could actually use it as a blogging client. Surprised? Good. Now let me show you how.
Download and installation
Download and install the Tomboy Blogposter plugin written by Robin Sonefors. For those on Ubuntu, you will find it in the repositories. Else, download the tarball or get it from Github.
Image credit: Clair Ching, 2009.
What to do next
- Activate the plugin. Run Tomboy and from the “Search all notes” dialog, go to the Edit menu and select “Preferences.”
- In the “Preferences” dialog, select the “Add-ins” tab and you will see “Post note to your blog” listed under “Tools.” Click the “Enable” button while it is highlighted.
- After enabling the blogging plugin, you have to add the URLs of your blog/s. There are various URLs depending on the blogging platform you are using.
- WordPress – <blog_url>/wp-app.php/posts ; make sure that the option for Atom Publishing must be enabled.
- Blogger – View the source of your Blogger blog. Then check the address in the <link> tag that has the rel attribute set to service.post. Therefore, it follows the template http://www.blogger.com/feeds//posts/default.
- LiveJournal – http://www.livejournal.com/interface/atomapi/<username>/post
- Start writing a new note. When you’re done, go to the “Tools” menu of that note then select the option to post it on the blog URL you’ve saved.
It’s really awesome when you finally get to try it. The note’s title is automatically the title of your blog entry. From there it will be easy for you to just upload any note you want to share with anyone.
Have fun!
