Ok. What is the absolute best way to share notebooks via someone else?

[potential1]

I have a friend that lives in another state, and I love OneNote 2007
(notepad was banished after I started using this), but it would help
so much if we could work on the same notebooks and stuff.

http://enroll.freesharepoint.com/uddi/freesharepoint/index.asp

^^ I understand that site has been recommended, but I almost always
use images with my notebook. I pay about 15 bucks a month for
excellent hosting, it's just that OneNote can run on WebDAV
(grrrrrrrrrrr why) and my hoster understandably won't alter the httpd
config files. So I am looking for any other solution that can be
recommended. The cheaper the better. If I have to I will probably go
with the 20 buck one, but it just doesn't seem like that good of a
deal, especially when I have a full fledged hoster for less than 15
bucks a month, but I need to pay 20 just to host OneNote.

Any suggestions are helpful, any suggestion at all. Thanks.

 

[jmsync]

I've checked these boards many times in the past looking for an
answer to this 'Onenote sharing via online server' question. Yesterday
I stumbled across an answer that would seem to offer WebDav hosting
for a few cents to a few dimes per month (depending on the size of
your Onenote files).

Jungle Disk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) works as a front-end to
Amazon's S3 online storage which in turn works with Webdav. I set
up JD first as a cheap remote backup strategy for all my data files,
but quickly discovered this also works to keep my Onenote notebooks
synced across machines.

The way it works is this: Jungle Disk creates a mapped folder (J
pointing to the Amazon S3 online storage space which is hosted on a
WebDav server. I just instructed Onenote to move my existing
notebooks to this new location (Notebook properties, change location
and point to the mapped drive). When I'm offline Onenote keeps
changes in a locally cached folder but whenever I connect to the web
it automatically syncs the changes to the remote location -- and from
there syncs to any other machines pointing to the same location..

Jungle disk is free for now (while it remains in Beta) and Amazon S3
charges only variable costs of about 0.15 cents per gigabyte stored
per month plus about 0.10/0.18 cents per gigabyte moved up or down
(and it should only be the incremental synced bytes that are moved
during each sync). Billing is through my usual Amazon account. All
data is encrypted. I figure from here forward, I should pay not much
more than $0.20 per month for keeping my onenote notebooks synced
(I'll report back next if it's much more!),

Jungle Disk does not yet support public shared folders (or shared
'buckets' in their parlance) although they say its a feature they are
looking into. Therefore this works mainly for people who want to
share Onenote folders across several machines where each machine must
log into the same S3 account. JD does allow you to map several S3
accounts at the same time however so what I am doing is to have one
place for my personal notebooks and another account where family
members share the secret key to allow onenote sharing (and separately,
JD keeps their important files backed up).


J

 

[jmsync]

I'm sorry to report that this solution is in fact NOT working very
well on two machines as it seemed to at first. Changes I make on one
machine don't always seem to show up on the other machine, and its
been frustrating. The creator of the Jungle Disk program has reported
"compatibility issues with OneNote 2007 due to the way it uses
WebDAV." So for now, save yourself some trouble.

I got carried away in the excitement of seeing it work at first, and
should have tested it for a few days before reporting success to this
group. If anyone else knows of a cheap way to share onenote via
online disk service, please let me know!

Jon