I've been looking at emacs orgmode lately, and thinking that it'd something great to sync up to SimpleNote (I love the iPhone app). With an API, this all becomes doable...

I do wish there were a decent notes App on Ubuntu that synced. (Is Tomboy even worth trying?)

I love zim wiki too and since I don't need my phone in the loop I sync it between my laptop and my desktop with git.

How about zim wiki + Dropbox?

http://zim-wiki.org/

Thanks for the pointer to Zim, it looks quite interesting. Could actually make for a pretty good journal tool. Very clean data format.

Now if I could only use Vim bindings in there :)

Emacs gets support via GTK ... sigh, I guess I'll have to learn emacs after all.

I just started using Notational Velocity for OS X and I think Simplenote is going to make a good mobile counterpart. Looking forward to using it.

Hey guys, happy you're liking Simplenote. There are some kinks in this update but we're working on them. Let us know if you have any feedback.

Two things I need desperately from SimpleNote:

1. not only allow tag each note, but also allow users add customized metadata field. Like {'tag': ['todo', 'work'], 'alarm': '2010-08-25 00:00:00.000'}

The creation date and revision records are readonly metadata.

2. Scriptable event system based on metadata. Like fire an alarm at 2010-08-25 00:00:00.000, or send email to someone as soon as a note is 1000 words long.

SimpleNote is one of the few iPhone apps I simply cannot live without.

I'm in the same boat. The thing that makes SimpleNote indispensable for me is that it syncs with Notational Velocity. So much better than the default Notes app and its awful syncing.