I was looking for a platform-independent replacement for OneNote. KeepNote was my choice, and it does its job pretty well. Thank you.

My idea was to put the main notebook under the DropBox folder so it would be synched automagically. Unfortunately, every ten seconds or so, a temporary file is created and subsequently replaces a file in the notebook. The DropBox client is notified by this change, even if it is a "no-change", i.e., the file's contents don't change.

I tweaked the SafeFile class (in safefile.py) to achieve the following behaviour:

• Create temporary files in the system's temp directory instead of the file's directory.
• Only move the file to its destination if the contents differ. If nothing has changed, simply discard the temporary file.

My tweak is clearly not much of a neat design.I would love to implement it in a better way, but I think that I would need some advice on design, given that I am relatively new to Python.

(By the way, does the code employ some kind of logging facility?)

I think this may be important to fold into the code.

This code not ready for integration yet. Probably, one would first check file sizes before comparing file contents.

Isn't the real issue that KeepNote keeps writing to files when nothing is happening?

I just installed it for the first time, made a new notebook in my Dropbox folder, and created a single notebook with a single note in it. I then left the app alone, but it keeps writing to temp files and to the index.sqlite file (at least--maybe others too).

Why is it writing to files when no data is being changed?

I have a strategy for preventing unneeded writes to path-to-your-notebook/notebook.nbk.

As for the index.sqlite file you can choose to keep the index in a second location outside of dropbox, see: "Edit > Preferences > Notebook Options > your-notebook > Alternative index location".

Ok...but why is the index being written to constantly, even when no data has changed? That's wasteful of CPU, wakes up the disk unnecessarily, reduces battery life, etc.

Issue 294 has been merged into this issue.

After setting up a new machine, I have noticed that the patch hasn't been included in the code yet. Pity. I have attached a better version, now comparing file sizes and using two new private methods to clarify the code's intentions.

I agree with alphadel... on that writes to the sqlite database should be reduced anyway.

I just installed the latest version and the issue is still there - this is really the only thing that keeps me from using KeepNote, could anyone please fix this?

seem preference offer a alternative index location , but still no effect 0.7.8 still have this problem.

I have been looking for a replacement for keynote and thought I would give keepnote a try. But keeping my notes in dropbox is a necessity and the traffic this thing generates is enormous. index.sqlite gets changed and unknown nodes created and deleted every few seconds and all these changes are uploaded and downloaded to all of my computers all around town even when keepnote is minimized! Unfortunately this makes the package unusable for my situation.

Since this problem was reported more than four years ago and has remained unaddressed in all that time, I guess there is little point even voting for it to be fixed.

@john.win...@gmail.com As above, use "Alternative index location". Annoying, but this solves it adequately for me.