Notebooks for iPhone Answers

Andrew Notepad

App should provide feedback when syncing

Andrew Notepad, September 22, 2011 22:48

Set up iPhone. Added a notebook and some notes. Synced with DropBox.
-> It copied the notebook and notes to my DropBox folder
Set up iPad. Synced with DropBox
-> nothing happened!
Added a notebook with the same name on the iPad as the one on the iPhone
-> nothing happened!
Started filing a bug report, then double-checked iPad
-> notepad contents had been copied across.

There’s no indication that syncing is happening or will happen.

Also, it’s not obvious that you have to manually add a notebook on the other device to get it to read the notebook from DropBox.

(Apart from that, the app looks promising so far.)

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Alfons Schmid, September 30, 2011 09:46

Hi Andrew,

one explanation why the changes did not immediately appear on your iPad could be that Dropbox was not "ready". It may sometimes take a few moments after a sync until all items are available for the next sync.

A few other details:

With Autosyc, Notebooks syncs when you open a book (NB checks for changes in that book on DB) and ten seconds after your latest change in a book. In both cases, the spinning network indicator shows that a sync is in progress.

With manual sync, you should always get feedback which items are up-/downloaded.

If you want to see exactly which items are imported and exported, you could create a note with the title "Dropbox Log" at the top level of Notebooks. After sync, this note contains a list of all synced items.

I hope that helps.
Best,
Alfons

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Andrew Notepad, October 02, 2011 20:36

Okay, I’m just pointing out that

a) It’s not clear that you have to manually add a notebook with the same name on the other device in order to get it to sync over Dropbox. (It may be obvious to you, but I assumed that once I set up Dropbox syncing, all of my notebooks would be synced automatically.) So it would be good to have this in the documentation. Also:

b) Dropbox may take a few minutes to sync, which is fine, but it would be nice to get an indication/explanation of this in the app. For example, in the Dropbox desktop app, the Dropbox icon animates to indicate that it is syncing. I thought it hadn’t worked.





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