{"id":264,"date":"2011-02-22T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.ivystreetinc.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2011-02-22T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:31:14","slug":"portable-files-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Portable Files, Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this problem for quite a while.\u00a0 I use Zim as a personal wiki to keep all my notes for work and my projects (like an Agile book I am working on) and I like to version it.\u00a0 Also, I need to access the Zim notebooks from several places (like different computers) and on different platforms.\u00a0 As you can imagine, this has created a problem.\u00a0 In addition, I don&#8217;t want any of this information public &#8212; its my private notes.<\/p>\n<p>For a few years I toted around a USB stick.\u00a0\u00a0 I tried keeping it on my server space but it got tiresome copying\/pasting files.\u00a0 Usually, what would happen is that a company I was consulting for would have some security arrangement where they wouldn&#8217;t allow FTP, or SSH, or any access etc.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I settled on using True Crypt to store the directory of Zim files.\u00a0 It works on Mac, Windows, and Unix-Linux.\u00a0 True Crypt lefts me encrypt the entire directory and mount it as a drive.\u00a0 So, my security issues solved, I tried different solutions.\u00a0 One was storing the file in my BitBucket account until it got blocked at my current place.\u00a0 But . . . they allow DropBox.<\/p>\n<p>DropBox is totally what I was looking for but some places don&#8217;t allow it, my current place does.\u00a0 it auto-syncs my True Crypt file.\u00a0\u00a0 I use Darcs for my versioning (super lightweight) and am good to go.\u00a0 DropBox is also free for the first 2 gigs.\u00a0\u00a0 And, since you get local copies, you don&#8217;t have to worry about internet lockout in case you are in Northern Ontario writing a manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Here then are the requirements:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Works on all major OS&#8217;s (Mac\/Windows\/Unix-Linux).<\/li>\n<li>Versionable.<\/li>\n<li>Encrypted.<\/li>\n<li>Accessible from anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>Relative ease of use.<\/li>\n<li>Cheap (or free).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And here&#8217;s portable encrypted desktop wiki solution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wiki: Zim.<\/li>\n<li>Encryption: True Crypt.<\/li>\n<li>Versioning: Darcs<\/li>\n<li>Access from Anywhere: DropBox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep doing this until the next place (or current) chooses to cut me of from DropBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this problem for quite a while.\u00a0 I use Zim as a personal wiki to keep all my notes for work and my projects (like an Agile book I am working on) and I like to version it.\u00a0 Also, I need to access the Zim notebooks from several places (like different computers) and on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}