How to use sidekick on iphone?

[Robert]

I've selected my sites folder on my home folder for sidekick. (I also
tried adding a folder to my dropbox) I do also have mobileme. but I
have no clue how to see the sidekick information on my iphone or
ipad. How do I do that? The help page does not tell you. thx.

[Dennis Whiteman]

On Jun 9, 9:51 am, Robert wrote:
> How do I do that? The help page does not tell you.

You would need the URL of your computer, either the .local name or the
hostname, and your short username. So, if your computer is named
Robert's Computer, your account name is robert, and the folder
containing your Yojimbo data is located in your sites directory and
its name is yojimbo, the URL might be http://roberts-computer.local/~robert/yojimbo.
You can find the .local name under System Preferences > Sharing and it
is listed right under the computer name. This will only work on your
local network and more elaborate options are available.

As sort of a feature request, it would handy if the URL for accessing
the Sidekick files were located in Yojimbo's preferences or in another
useful location where end users could find it.

Dennis

[Steve Kalkwarf]

>> How do I do that? The help page does not tell you.
>
> You would need the URL of your computer, either the .local name or the
> hostname, and your short username. So, if your computer is named
> Robert's Computer, your account name is robert, and the folder
> containing your Yojimbo data is located in your sites directory and
> its name is yojimbo, the URL might be http://roberts-computer.local/~robert/yojimbo.
> You can find the .local name under System Preferences > Sharing and it
> is listed right under the computer name. This will only work on your
> local network and more elaborate options are available.

While the Sidekick data _is_ HTML, and it will work fine served up by a web server, that wasn't the primary design goal.

The intent was to make it possible to carry your Yojimbo data with you _on_the_device_, and NOT require a connection to the network.

For iPhone and iPad users, I expected people to use FileMagnet, AirSharing, or something like that to sync the entire Sidekick folder on to the device. Then open the Index.html file (each app I looked at has a different gesture for this step)

Android users would mount the phone like a disk, then sync the files to the storage card, using ChronoSync, Unison, or something like that. A bookmark to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/Yojimbo/Index.html makes it easy to browse.

Windows users could sync the Sidekick data onto a USB thumb drive (using the same tools as Android), plug that into the computer, and open the Index.html file with Firefox, Safari, etc.

As far as using an actual webserver, I thought a company or organization could "publish" their office manual by using Yojimbo to create the pages, and hosting the Sidekick folder on a machine hidden behind a firewall, visible only to people at the office.

One thing I really wanted to work was Dropbox. I expected to be able to sync Sidekick to my _private_ Dropbox space, and once logged in, browse from anywhere. Due to some design choices at Dropbox, this is not currently possible, as HMTL pages loaded from the private area do not load CSS or Javascript resources. I believe our support people are working with them to find a resolution to this shortcoming.

In any case, those are some of the usage models we tried to build for. Notice that "turn on web sharing, configure Back to My Mac, and cross fingers" was not on the list. :-)

Steve

[Robert]

Thanks. FileMagnet worked great. Hope you can get DropBox to work
too.

On Jun 9, 1:53 pm, Steve Kalkwarf <kalkw...@barebones.com> wrote:
> >> How do I do that? The help page does not tell you.
>
> > You would need the URL of your computer, either the .local name or the
> > hostname, and your short username. So, if your computer is named
> > Robert's Computer, your account name is robert, and the folder
> > containing your Yojimbo data is located in your sites directory and

> > its name is yojimbo, the URL might behttp://roberts-computer.local/~robert/yojimbo.

[Brian Brown-Cashdollar]

I have mobile me so it mostly works here's how I got it to work:

1. Turn on idisk syncing (it doesn't seem to save to the idisk without
syncing turned on)
2. Then go into Yojimbo and set the sidekick directory to somewhere in
your idisk (for example you could pick a subdirectory like documents -
but probably you don't want public ;)
3. Then on your desktop launch safari and go to:
http://idisk.me.com/username/subdirectory/Yojimbo/index.html
4. Save a bookmark in Safari
5. wait for Safari to sync with your iphone and open the link
6. you will be prompted for your mobileme login
7. Most items seem to be visible except I couldn't see my encrypted
notes.

Hope that helps.

[Scott Hughes]

Would love to have one of these if anyone knows of one?