I finally got around to releasing my script I use for toting my private WordPress notebook around on my iPod. It’s essentially a PHP page that creates a static HTML page with a load of JavaScript to selectively hide and show posts as they’re searched for.

This is my method for getting the resulting file onto my iPod. I’ve included it here in case it’s useful to someone.

Things you will need

• A jailbroken iPod/iPhone
• MobileTerminal (from Cydia)
• wget (from Cydia)
• file:// Schema in Safari (from Cydia)

Setting up the alias

Open MobileTerminal and type the following:

iPod:~ mobile$ nano .bashrc

This will either open your existing .bashrc file or create one for you in Nano.

The following command will create an alias that makes a backup of your previously downloaded export page and then downloads the latest version.

alias wp='cd; mv export.html export~.html; wget http://www.domain.com/pathtopage --output-document=export.html'

Note that if your blog is behind a password you will need to add --http-user=name and --http-password=pass to the wget part of the alias.

Now close the file by typing CTRL-O.

To make sure your .bashrc file loads when you start up your iPod you now need to create a .profile. Type the following:

iPod:~ mobile$ nano .profile

Then add the following to that file:

source $HOME/.bashrc

Close the file by typing CTRL-O.

Now any time you want to download your WP data just load up MobileTerminal and type wp. To load your offline page in Safari you need go to the URL file:///var/mobile/export.html.

I love Remember the Milk. I’ve been using it for about two months now, both for work and personal lists. RTM have recently released an iPhone/iPod app to integrate with their web app. It syncs your data for use offline and unlike Appigo’s Todo (which also syncs with RTM) it supports tags. True you do need to have a pro RTM account but at $25 per year it won’t break the bank. It’s certainly less than buying the awful, slow and crash-prone OmniFocus for iPhone along with either the desktop version of OmniFocus or MobileMe account you’ll need to sync it to. Oh and did I mention that it will eat your data?