How to setup WebDAV syncing with VoodooPad

VoodooPad 4 now has the ability to sync data between computers with the use of Apple's http://www.apple.com/mobileme/ or any other WebDAV server. Unlike most applications that sync your data, VoodooPad syncs on a per document basis, so you can sync documents from multiple sources. This can be nice for syncing one document from your work computer to your home computer, and have another document sync between co-workers in the office.

While this flexibility makes great things possible, it also makes setting up a document for syncing a little bit more work.

Setting up your document for a first sync:

The first thing you want to do is choose the Synchronization Setup… menu item under the File menu. it will bring up a sheet that looks like this:

1. Check the "Synchronize this document" button to turn on syncing. If you ever want to turn it off, just uncheck this button.
2. If you have a MobileMe account with Apple, the "Use MobileMe" button will be enabled and you can press it to autofill some of the fields.
3. Enter your username and password, if they aren't already entered.
4. If you'd like a website accesible version of your document published in the same location, click the "Create a public iPhone compatible website with sync" button, and enter the WebDAV" url for the directory. That's it. Click the OK button, and VoodooPad"" will perform it's first sync.

Pairing a Second Document for Syncing:

1. Fill out all the fields just like we did before for setting up synchronization.
2. Click the "Search" button when everything is filled out. What we're doing is looking for the document we want to sync with. If everything goes ok, the drop down menu will display a list of documents you can sync with. Select the document you want to sync to, and press the OK button.

And that's it. If you'd like to change the frequency of synchronizations, open up the Preferences and under the "Advanced" options you'll see a pull down button to make synchronizations more or less frequent.

3rd Party WebDAV Servers

Besides MobileMe, VoodooPad can also sync to other WebDAV servers.  Just about any Apache 2 server with WebDAV turned on will work, along with DreamHost (http://dreamhost.com/) and Bluehost (http://www.bluehost.com/).

How to setup your own WebDAV Server on Mac OS X

Manas Tungare has a really great tutorial on how to setup a WebDAV server with Mac OS X. While it's geared towards using it with OmniFocus, the same principles apply for VoodooPad.  Check it out here.

Creating a password protected site with MobileMe

You can password protect your iPhone site using MobileMe, by removing the "Sites" directory from the URL.  For example, if your url is:

https://idisk.me.com/ccgus/Web/Sites/TestDocument/

remove the "Sites/" portion so you end up with this:

https://idisk.me.com/ccgus/Web/TestDocument/

and then the URL for your starting page will be:

https://idisk.me.com/ccgus/Web/TestDocument/index.html

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