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Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder.

I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.)

Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more valuable for me across my Ubuntu machines and makes a re-install much more pleasurable. I no longer need to spend the hour or so I used to setting up my software the way I like it... it just works.

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles...

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles... [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

If you don't have a problem with commercial software, you'll probably find Evernote [1] a great improvement on Tomboy.

[1] http://evernote.com

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder. I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.) Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more…

I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles... [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

If you don't have a problem with commercial software, you'll probably find Evernote [1] a great improvement on Tomboy. [1] http://evernote.com

Evernote has one of the least-intuitive, most-bloated UIs I've ever seen.

I was a fan of Wunderlist, but it seems that the product is no longer updated.

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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post #5

This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder. I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.) Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more…

I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.

Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles... [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

Is Tomboy still a C# bridgehead or has it been rewritten?

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder. I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.) Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more…

Couldn't you just store your config files in Dropbox and make symlinks? For example, my .vimrc is a symlink to Dropbox/.vimrc

Re: Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles... [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

Is Tomboy still a C# bridgehead or has it been rewritten?

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