tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng

How does one migrate notes from Tomboy into tomboy-ng?

jtcmedia opened this issue · 4 comments

jtcmedia commented

I've looked through the issues and wiki and can't find any information on how I can migrate my notes from Tomboy into tomboy-ng. The Tomboy notes are stored as XML. I looked at TomboyTools but it only imports markdown or plain text. Tomboy can only export HTML.

jtcmedia commented

Was simpler than I thought. In case anyone else wonders, you can simply copy your notes under %AppData%\Tomboy\notes to %AppData%\tomboy-ng\notes

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davidbannon commented

Well solved JTC.
I have wondered if I should have a button that does automatically the copy you just did ? Maybe ....
In fact, you can just point tomboy-ng to your Tomboy dir if you wish. tomboy-ng does not care where your notes are as long as it can find them.

Davo

jtcmedia commented

I don't know if a button is necessary @davidbannon but a comment about migration in the docs would help. I had falsely assumed tomboy-ng stored notes in a different format just because TomboyTools doesn't do XML.

davidbannon commented

OK, have added a sentence to the main wiki page.

TomboyTools is a more specialized, case by case thing, its used by a small number of people who have specific workflow needs.

Thanks for your feedback !

Davo