HOWTO: Syncing Tomboy with an iPod

I take all of my notes with Tomboy, a simple note-taking application for GNOME.  However, I'm not always at my computer when I want to look at my notes.  That's why I hacked together this little script, which converts Tomboy notes into iPod Notes.  It's listed below the cut



It assume that your iPod is mounted at /media/ipod, and it puts all the notes into a subdirectory called tomboy.

#!/usr/bin/env python







from xml.dom.minidom import parse







import os, os.path, sys















def fixTitle(title):







    bad = '"'







    for c in bad:







        title = title.replace(bad, '')







    return title















def getTextFromChildren(node):







    return ''.join([getTextFrom(n) for n in node.childNodes])















def getTextFrom(node):







    if node.nodeType == 3:







        return node.data







    elif node.nodeName == 'link:internal':







        link = fixTitle(node.firstChild.data)







        return '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (link, link)







    elif node.nodeName == 'italic':







        return '/%s/' % getTextFromChildren(node)







    elif node.nodeName == 'bold':







        return '*%s*' % getTextFromChildren(node)







    elif node.nodeName == 'underline':







        return '_%s_' % getTextFromChildren(node)







    elif node.nodeName == 'highlight':







        return '[[[%s]]]' % getTextFromChildren(node)







    else:







        return getTextFromChildren(node)















def parseNote(f):







    dom = parse(f)







    de = dom.documentElement







    assert de.nodeName == 'note'







    title = fixTitle(de.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.data)







    texts = de.getElementsByTagName('text')[0].getElementsByTagName('note-content')[0].childNodes







    text = ''.join([getTextFrom(node) for node in texts]).split('\n\n',1)[1]







    return (title, text)















def splitNote(title,text):







    parts = []







    number = 0







    while len(text) > 3900:







        number = len(parts)







        first = text[:3900]







        lastSpace = first.rfind(' ')







        newText = '%s\n<a href="%s%i">&gt;</a>' % (text[:lastSpace], title, number+1)







        text = text[lastSpace:].lstrip()







        parts.append(['%s%i' % (title, number), newText])







    parts.append(['%s%i' % (title, number+1), text])







    parts[0][0] = title







    return parts















tomboyDir = os.path.expanduser('~/.tomboy')







ipodDir = '/media/ipod/Notes/'















if not os.path.exists(ipodDir):







    sys.exit(1)















os.system('rm -rf %s/tomboy' % ipodDir)







os.mkdir(os.path.join(ipodDir, 'tomboy'))















files = os.listdir(tomboyDir)







for f in files:







    if not f.endswith('.note'):







        continue







    title, text = parseNote(file(os.path.join(tomboyDir, f)))







    parts = splitNote(title, text)







    for name, value in parts:







        #print 'Writing %s...' % name







        fullPath = os.path.join(ipodDir,'tomboy',name)







        file(fullPath, 'w').write(value.encode('latin1', 'xmlcharrefreplace'))