jewzaam/bbsync

Bash script to sync content from a boogie board sync to linux and knit things together nicely, including optional text search keywoards.

bbsync's Issues

Script doesn't delete from sync device

I didn't want to initially automatically delete from the sync device. Maybe prompt user if they want all documents deleted after the script is run with a default of NO.

bbview: add page number in footer

Requires sejda-console installed in specific directory

Currently hard coded to ~/Downloads/sejda-console-1.0.0.M9/bin/sejda-console
Fix it!

Document installation

Generic documentation on how to run the tool at least. Better with specific steps targeting specific platforms. Users I know are running Linux and OSX (which I know nothing about).

Array index out of bounds when starting bbsync if nothing new to tag

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Generated pdf names are not great

Everything is called "output.pdf". Better to use the parent directory name with pdf extension.

Installation is manual

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Hard coded paths!

Path to source (mounted device) and staging (local) directories are hard coded. Currently based on my system's setup, so it's even worse because absolute paths are used.

Fix by pulling this into config file, probably ~/.bbsync, and set some reasonable defaults on initial startup.

Get keyword pdf creation to use same dimensions as sync

The last page with keywords is right now much bigger than the other pages. Would be nice to have consistency.

Don't always create merged pdf's!

Not a big deal for me right now, but long term it will be a pain if all merged pdfs are regenerated every time. Need to make this smarter and only generate the ones it has to.

Open sync tool when device is mounted

Got to learn about udev stuff... basically, if the device is attached have it kick off the sync tool.

Ability to incorporate other sources

Historically I have taken notes in text files and thought the sync would make that go away. I realized today that in some cases when I'm preparing for a meeting in the future it may be best to continue that practice. Therefore it would be nice to have a way to identify additional sources for notes. Because of how the bbsync script stages stuff in a directory it may be as simple as putting the notes in the target directory (project, date, etc based) and incorporate the text as-is. Re-running bbsync would also pull in any updates added as part of a meeting, if that's done. I usually have who is going, what I want to talk about, and notes from the actual meeting. Having the notes captured in a page on sync would be fine though correlating it with the text file may be a problem.

If using + option in script, creates notes multiple times

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