Archive for April, 2007

Gnome Hack Idea: FreeMind, Tomboy and EDS

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I take notes in meetings using FreeMind. Every time I identify a task I mark the node down using an icon and after the meeting I follow up creating the necessary tasks in Evolution. I would like to be able to link my mindmaps to tasks in Evolution. Hopefully it can be done using FreeMind, or perhaps we need to invest in Psycho or something similar tighter to the Gnome desktop. If we decide not to use FreeMind, the tool of choice should use FreeMind’s XML schema to ensure interoperability with folks running other desktops.

Sometimes there is a node in the mindmap I would like to expand into a Tomboy desktop wiki page. Right now, I have to create the node on Tomboy and write down a reference in the mindmap with the URL to the wiki page.

Sometimes I am writing in Tomboy and I identify tasks required to follow up the note. I would like to create a wiki link to the task in EDS.

And of course, I would like to see my tasks in EDS, and be able to link back to FreeMind and Tomboy.

Microsoft Office has a similar feature.

How do we do that for the Gnome world?

Silence

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I have been very much silent on my blog for the last 6 weeks. The reason has been me changing jobs to become Yahoo’s Chief Architect of International Engineering. The first weeks at work have been absolutely thrilling and I am highly delighted to be working in such an amazingly skilled and enthusiastic team. I really look forward at the challenge ahead. Unfortunately being able to take on this challenge requires absolute dedication, and my ability to blog will be somehow more limited than in the past.
So if you are a usual reader, please bear with me for a little longer: posts will be coming back in no time.