Any iPhone synch that does NOT use a cloud service?

[Oogie]

Does anyone know of any way to synch Yojimbo notes to an iPhone in
some form that does not use or depend on any cloud or mobile me
service?

I do not have consistent wifi or 3g service and cannot put any data
out on a cloud platform for security reasons.

[cubic....@fastmail.fm]

Using Webjimbo on an iPhone is technically not using a cloud service -
you're just looking at your home machine - but is not really syncing
and doesn't work offline.

One could have an Applescript which synced back and forwards with
another application which *did* have a locally-syncing iPhone client,
but that would seem an awful lot of effort. For example, sync notes
from Yojimbo to Things on the desktop, sync Things from desktop to
iPhone, then back, then sync Things desktop to Yojimbo.

Exporting items and transferring them to one of the iPhone file
storage apps would work if you only wanted read-only access.

[Oogie]

What I'm really woudl like is a Yojimbo on iPhone. But since that
seems impossible I was hoping there was some way to use Yojimbo on my
mac but get all the data, fully editable, onto an iPhone as well,
perhaps on some other app. but it cannot use a cloud service for
storage. I know that there isn't a Yojimbo for iPhone and all
solutions for taking yojimbo data on the iPhone are based on cloud
services and apps.

[cubic....@fastmail.fm]

Webjimbo is not a "cloud" service. It's basically a remote login to
your home machine (over https) with a web interface - your Yojimbo
data are not uploaded to anywhere else as an intermediary.

You can edit items reasonably well - it's just that it does require a
net connection, since it's a web app hosted on your Yojimbo-holding
computer. This also means that performance is slower than it would be
with an iPhone Yojimbo client. But third parties don't hold any of you
data.

[Oogie]

But with no consistent data access it's basically unusable. I'm in a
rural area, we don't always even have cell service much less data. And
wifi hot spots are 75 miles away. I need to be able to synch when at
my desktop and carry the entire set of notes with me with no reference
to anything else until I get back when I can sync any changes.

I do need the notes fully editable on the handheld.

[Mike]

On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:52 am, Oogie wrote:

> Does anyone know of any way to synch Yojimbo notes to an iPhone in
> some form that does not use or depend on any cloud or mobile me
> service?

You might want to look at Mark/Space Missing Sync for iPhone <http://
www.markspace.com/iphone/mac/>. It will synchronise Yojimbo with the
free Markspace Fliq Notes iPhone app, using a direct wi-fi connection
to your local Mac. No cloud server involved. The sync process uses the
built-in Mac OS X Sync Services. It took Mark/Space a few iterations
to get working reliably. But it works well for me, syncing notes and
tasks from iCal into the Fliq Tasks app.

The Fliq Notes app, like the iPhone Notes app, is plain text only, so
is not a perfect match for the more diverse items in Yojimbo. Fliq
Notes does has a degree of organisation, namely it allows/preserves
categories, but I don't think it works with smart collections.

I tried out Yojimbo, but in the end went back to the Markspace Notes
application, which is also plain text (and images), because my
requirements were primarily to 2-way sync information to & from my
iPhone, rather than develop an all encompassing database of styled
text, PDFs, etc...

I have no connection to Mark/Space, except as a happy end user.

Hope that helps

Mike

[Oogie]

I tried missing sync a few revs ago. It so totally screwed up my Palm
that I quit. Finally tried again with the newer revs as that is the
only way I'm managing to sync to my current Treo. Missing sync is
buggy as all get out and hardly ever works properly from one sync to
another. I'm really leery of using them if I switch to an iPhone.
Ditto for an android phone. There really needs to be a good robust
sync system developed.