Hey! Not that “tomboy”. Errrr… Tomboy is a famous desktop note-taking application for Linux. It’s very useful application on your desktop. Tomboy doesn’t support integration with Google Notebook yet. This is a how to install tomboy2googlenotebook addins in ubuntu/debian.

1. You’ll need subversion client and mono c# compiler. In terminal, type
sudo apt-get install subversion mono-gmcs

2. Addin’s folder & checkout tomboy2googlenotebook source code
cd ~/.tomboy/addins
svn checkout http://tomboy2googlenotebook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ .

3. Go to your google notebook. Clicking on Sharing Options at the top right, and selecting “Yes” to “Publish this Notebook”. Look for a 20 digit number in your URL. That’s your user id. Memorize it or copy and paste it somewhere.

4. Create a gconf file
sudo touch /apps/tomboy/google_notebook_<your_user_id>

5. Run make
make

6. And you’re almost done.
sudo cp GoogleNoteBookSync.dll /usr/lib/tomboy/addins

7. Restart tomboy, activate Google Notebook addins. And yeah! You can now sync you google notebook with tomboy with “Tools > Sync With Google Notebook”.