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Simplenote Yojimbo Sync v0.3(1)

ordinal — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:25:17 +0000

As the previous post suggest I’ve uploaded a new version of SNYS, 0.3. This has some more extensive logging options as some people are still having issues, but for those who aren’t, this version stays running and repeats the sync once per hour. You might wish to have it run on startup if you are that way inclined; I am.

Download from the dedicated page as usual.

Edit: Please can you post (a) the version of OS X you are using and (b) the version of Yojimbo you are using, when reporting a bug? I have a feeling that there may be some subtle Applescript differences involved here, and even if there aren’t, I’d like to eliminate that possibility.

Applescript and regular actions

ordinal — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:28:07 +0000

I was wondering how I could have Simplenote Yojimbo Sync (henceforth, SNYS) running regularly, and thinking of all sorts of methods involving launchd, but actually it seems very simple to do with Applescript, which is where I should have looked in the first place.

From p76 of the Applescript Language Guide:

Stay-open script applications can perform periodic actions, even in the background, as long as the script application is running.

What I need therefore is an idle handler.

If a stay-open script application includes an idle handler, AppleScript sends the script application periodic idle commands—by default, every 30 seconds—allowing it to perform background tasks when it is not performing other actions.

So, I will put one of those in and it will run the sync periodically and everything will be happy. That should be straightforward.

Simplenote Yojimbo Sync v0.11

ordinal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:03 +0000

This is the first version of my syncing script between Simplenote and Yojimbo. (Well, v0.1 was the first, and was pretty much the same just without Growl support, but this is the first public version.)

If you would care to try it out, I would be delighted – please leave any comments, bug reports etc on this post. (Even just “works as expected” would be appreciated.)

Documentation and download

(see main project page)

Edit: Of course, Sod’s Law, there was an installation bug in the initial version. I’ve now fixed this.