How to sync Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox text documents with Hazel
Update: None of this works. Download Notational Velocity.
Dropbox is optional. You don’t need it, it just provides another means of accessing your text notes.
- Get Hazel
- Get Notational Velocity
- Get Simplenote
- Get SimplenoteSync
- Run the command sudo perl -MCPAN -e “install Crypt::SSLeay” in the Terminal, and just accept the defaults. Make a .simplenotesync file in your home directory following the instructions on the SimplenoteSync page.
- Set the default note location in Notational Velocity to be someplace in your Dropbox directory, and have it use text files instead of a database.
- Set up a Hazel rule as follows: If any of the following conditions are met: Date Last Modified is in the last 1 minute Do the following: Run shell script SimplenoteSync.pl. Call it “Sync Changes”.
- Set up another rule as follows: If all of the following conditions are met: Name is donotdeleteforsyncpurposes and Date Last Matched is not in the last 10 minutes Do the following: Run shell script SimplenoteSync.pl.
- Create a file in Notational Velocity called “donotdeleteforsyncpurposes”.
Every 10 minutes, or whenever a file is changed locally, Hazel will run the sync script. You can change this 10 minute delay as you like; Simplenote told me that every few minutes is fine.
This will work until there’s a desktop app that uses Simplenote’s API. I’m not responsible if your data is eaten by a cloud. Send feedback to jtth@jtth.net
Posted 11 months ago 2 notes
