Archive for May 2009
I’ve been an avid fan of Tomboy Notes for quite some time. Tomboy is one of a handful of applications I consider vital to my productivity on par with email or IM. The one deficiency I’ve found with Tomboy is that it is not as easy to sync or share notes as it could be. I had been thinking of marrying my passion for iFolder with Tomboy, however a new solution has appeared on the horizon that I’ll be throwing my support behind, Snowy. Snowy is a new open source project that supports syncing and sharing Tomboy notes via a web application. The plan, as I understand it, is that there will soon be a service that provides this functionality. Let’s all hope so and get involved to make this badly needed service a reality!
I have to admit that I’m a bit of a collaboration and community junkie and as such follow some obscure topics. One topic I’ve had on my radar for quite some time is Flock Theory. Flock theory tries to describe the self-organizing and emergent aspects of human behavior. Succinctly put, behavior in some cases is not a property of any individual person (or bird), but rather emerges as a property of a group or social network (flock). This concept can be used to describe aspects of both collaborative teams and open source communities. I’m don’t want to analyze the merits of the theory but I do want to introduce its concepts which I think have implications for team/community productivity and possibility even individual information relevance. (more…)
I fully appreciate the need that the “Save” button fulfilled thirty years ago when disk and cpu resources where hard to come by, but today ….. please. My documents should be saved as I type them and not require me to manually press Ctrl -S or “Save”. I don’t understand why an application can crash and I lose my work or why when I shutdown and forget to save something its gone. Why does the “Save” button still exist?
Tomboy Notes does a fantastic job with “Save”. Why can’t other applications? In fact, I’ll say it… I Love Tomboy Notes:-) Of course it has its warts, the outline tool is not very sophisticated and sharing notes is not as easy as it should be but overall I’d say it is one of my favorite (more…)
