You might already know that I have a lot of lists on my computer. I may have mentioned once or twice that I have such lists. These lists are connected to a certain popular productivity system which isn't really about productivity and is a little bit like a cult.
I might have also mentioned that I've been longing for a "smart" phone, partly so I can have these lists with me at all times, to clutch at reflexively like some Popish talisman.
Now that I have a Palm Prē I have lists and a smart phone, and yet one does not know the other. I am at a loss as to how to get my lists — line-separated text files on my laptop — onto the Tasks application on the Palm. Even then, once they are on the Palm, I have no idea as to how to get them synchronized with something I can edit from my laptop.
Any ideas?
Thursday, November 26, 2009
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> These lists are connected to a certain popular
> productivity system which isn't really about
> productivity and is a little bit like a cult.
Sure, brother, just say the word: GTD. ;-) I'm no David Allen follower, anyway, I just own the book in both English and Italian languages. ;-P
> Any ideas?
Nope, I'm in a similar predicament. I've been using Thinking Rock for a few years now, but it's a big, hairy Java beast, no way to put that on my Nokia N800 (nor on a N900, I guess).
Jono-
I installed sshd on my Pre, and I rsync the entire filesystem to my laptop to back it up daily.
I haven't looked for the backing files of the task list, if they're cleartext and edit-able. If they are readable, then I think rsync+sshd+vi might solve this for you?
:-Dustin
Hey Dustin,
That sounds like a good idea. What command do you use to rsync, exactly? I get a lot of permission denied errors when I try.
A little poking around shows that the Tasks app is backed on to an sqlite3 database. As best as I can tell, the schema lives in /usr/lib/luna/PalmDatabase.db3 and the db itself in /var/luna/data/dbdata/PalmDatabase.db3. That last one wasn't rsynced when I tried with 'rsync -avPx'.
Looks like tables for a bunch of apps are in there.
Interestingly, the 'Task' table (com_palm_pim_Task) has a column called 'extraCrap'.
> Interestingly, the 'Task' table
> (com_palm_pim_Task) has a column called
> 'extraCrap'.
Thank you for helping me wake up with a good laugh :-)
mmm.. maybe somebody can port Bazaar to the Palm Prē :)
I have a similar problem with my G1 (also a thinkingrock user). Thinking about it, it should be possible to do the version control part from my laptop when my phone is mounted. TODO: find a text editor which can edit files in a branch on my phone.
I'm using (on the iphone and PC) a service/product called Evernote which allows you to edit notes on the phone, on the PC (windows software but works fine with wine) and on the web. I don't know if they have a Palm version, but it they do you should give it a try.
I'm using (on the iphone and PC) a service/product called Evernote which allows you to edit notes on the phone, on the PC (windows software but works fine with wine) and on the web. I don't know if they have a Palm version, but it they do you should give it a try.
palmpre2rdf
I started writing stuff to export those sqlite databases to RDF, such that the shared sql key ids become URIs that you could link to even more data sources.
I didn't care about todo at the time, but that might be easy to add.
I'm in the same cult. I don't know if the Palm Pre is a device that allows you to install whatever you want, but I'm in the same situation with my N800 and soon N900, plus my various laptops/desktops.
I started writing a couchdb-based GTD manager (currently command-line only, inspired on yagtd which I've used for the last two years). I plan to port it to the N900, which should be doable given there are couchdb packages.
Not entirely what you're looking for, but let me know if you are interested (or anyone else here, like tekNico)
@intellectronica, EverNote is on the Palm, but AFAICT it isn't a task list manager, it's more of a note gathering application. Am I missing something?
@drewpca, Cool! Although, I think I'm interested in getting stuff *into* Tasks, not out of it.
@thomasvs, I hadn't heard of yagtd, I'll have a quick play with it. May I suggest taking a look at GTG? Someone has a desktopcouch branch of that -- it might be worth combining efforts rather than making yet another GTD app.
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