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ConnectedText with mobile support? (Windows/iOS/Web)
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Posted by Prion
Apr 17, 2015 at 06:14 AM
TrunkNotes is *excellent* but if you are primarily working on your computer accessing and editing your wiki on your mobile device adds some unwanted friction. For years I have been encouraging the developer to finally publish the promised OS X version, with little success so far but it is still in the cards.
Chris Murtland wrote:
Check out Trunk Notes. It’s a native wiki for iOS that syncs its
>Markdown files to Dropbox and also has a clever way to access the wiki
>via a web browser on a PC (or Mac).
Posted by Prion
Apr 17, 2015 at 01:30 PM
One more if I may. Connecting to TrunkNotes via Wifi sharing depends on the presence of a Wifi that OS X as well iOS device can connect to, which is not possible everywhere. Under Yosemite one cannot set up an ad hoc Wifi network, at least not one with any kind of security.
An option here is using Type2Phone, an OS X utility that talks to your iOS device connecting via Bluetooth. This can be set up locally and provides some security.
HTH
Prion
Posted by steveylang
Apr 17, 2015 at 11:47 PM
I got really excited reading this thread, until I discovered the same thing reading the details. You can move data back and forth, but it’s nothing resembling effortless synchronization.
There’s no actual Mac client, only a way to backup and restore data. So if you have a lot of notes, I imagine navigating and finding information on the Mac side would be difficult.
Prion wrote:
TrunkNotes is *excellent* but if you are primarily working on your
>computer accessing and editing your wiki on your mobile device adds some
>unwanted friction. For years I have been encouraging the developer to
>finally publish the promised OS X version, with little success so far
>but it is still in the cards.
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>
>
>Chris Murtland wrote:
>Check out Trunk Notes. It’s a native wiki for iOS that syncs its
>>Markdown files to Dropbox and also has a clever way to access the wiki
>>via a web browser on a PC (or Mac).
Posted by zoe
Apr 18, 2015 at 11:52 AM
Yes and unfortunately I do not use MacOS at all at the moment. Plus I’m not on wi-fi on the work computer because everything is on a pretty high-security hard wired intranet. Back to the drawing board…
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 18, 2015 at 12:45 PM
zoe wrote:
Is there anything that has the power and flexibility of ConnectedText
>(image support, extremely robust markup options) but which I can access
>and/or update from my mobile device?
If you wanted to stick with CT, I think there are two different uses/issues here: 1) real-time access to CT database (to consult/modify it), and 2) capture new info to be added to CT (which can be done later on).
In the absence of a CT cloud app to do this (which has been requested on the CT forum: see http://connectedtext.com/forum/index.php/topic,3057.msg14129.html#msg14129), I see two options to do this, given your requirements.
As I mentioned before, 1) could be addressed by leaving your Win machine with CT on permanently and use another device with a remote access app to dial into the PC. Not sure if this can be done conveniently on an iPhone. I use my Chromebook + CRD for this, which is a lot more to carry.
To address 2), there seem to be a few options. You could use an iOS app for capturing notes and images, and then transfer them to CT when you get back home. I used to use the WorkFlowy app for this on iOS (you could keep your CT templates in it for different types of notes).
Alternatively, you could use a plain text editor app that saves/edits to Dropbox. Then in CT you could create a topic called “Dropbox folder” and add
[[$FILE:C:\Users\
\*.*]]
to it, so this would display the files saved in that Dropbox folder, to remind you that you need to process them and bring them into CT. This topic then could be pinned in your Home page, or as a bookmark, or in a CT outline (and so on), to remind you to check it regularly.
On Android, I’d suggest Google Keep. I keep a couple of CT templates in it, and so it’s fairly quick to create new notes with CT’s markup in it. I have shortcuts to Google Keep in all my bookmark toolbars, so I can be reminded to check it and access it with one click.