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SAngeli

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Monday, July 11th 2005, 10:12pm

Knotes and Kontact

Hi,

I realized that knotes, in system tray, has the same notes as kontact displays. As a matter of fact, whatever I make change on knotes from system tray, it appears automatically in kontact.
Is this possible/correct? If so, how to configure both so that notes will then be synked with my palm pilot?
Then, because I have migrated PC, how to export my notes?. I was able to move my Mail folder so far.

Lastly, is it possibile to learn all paths for each component of kontact?

Thank you,
Spiro

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Tuesday, July 19th 2005, 2:48pm

RE: Knotes and Kontact

I am afraid you are out of luck because, at least as of now, Knotes is horribly broken. Do not try and save important information in Knotes because, based on my expereince, you will probably experience data loss. Based on my research in the matter knotes will not sync with your palm. The best you can do for notes is to use the memo file conduit in Kpilot. This will save the notes on your palm to text files on your PC. However, I have found creating notes as text files and syncing them to the palm to be problematic. The problem seems to be that the PC wants a file name and the palm does not know what to do with the file name. It works from the palm to the pc because the software uses some of the text of the note to create a file name.

The long and the short of this issue is: don't use Knotes for anything and exepect your data to remain intact. Especially don't try to sync.

If you really need solid replication of notes run JPilot. It does everything you expect it to without a problem except it does not integrate with your email. That's the reason I sync with Kontact, I don't really need notes and I like having a single address book (JPilot is kind of ugly too).

For the record my experience comes running Simply Mepis 3.3 upgraded with KDE 3.4.1 from the Alioth repository and syncing with a Treo 650. Your mileage may vary.

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Wednesday, July 20th 2005, 7:46am

Hi rshol,

thank you for replying to my question.

I have noticed that kontact is not so 100% stable. I was using evolution and decided to focus on kontact. I hope I did not make any mistake in my choice.

As for conduit, can you confirm my that in your openion and experience jpilot is much better than kpilot? If so, I guess I should un-configure my kpilot and then install jpilot and configure it with kontact. I assume it is quite simple to do so, right?
But, as far as I know, I did not experience any issue with kpilot, so far.
What version of KDE are you working with? I currently have 3.4.1 and it seems quite stable, better than 3.1

Also, I wish to ask you few questions:
1) where can I find plug-ins for kontacts?
2) is there a way to get the bar that selects the emails, in the email list to stick always to the top ontop to the most recent email? I get crazy when I enter a folder and I have the bar and the selected mail in the wrong position and I have to go all the way to the top to see new mail.

Thank you very much for your assistance,
Spiro

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Wednesday, July 20th 2005, 7:32pm

I have found that Kontact works reliably for calendar, to do lists, and address book using the conduits provided by KPilot. I use Kontact exclusively and am quite happy with it except for the awfulness which is Knotes. The only reason to consider using Jpilot is if you must have notes and do not require a single address book. If you do not require note sycning functions (i.e. you take notes on the palm but do not sync them to the PC or do not use the notes function at all), then go with Kontact. It is well integrated with the KDE desktop (you can use the Korganizer alarm daemon etc) and it is attractive (Jpilot suffers from a bad case of the uglies).

I have not made extensive use of Jpilot, but it seems to work and seems to be very stable.