Magic Folder for Linux

The Magic Folder is a program I first encountered while browsing for widgets for my sidebar when I first got Windows Vista (now, I know better than to use Vista or the sidebar). I never really got used to using it, but I loved the idea, and when I migrated to ubuntu, I wanted to find something similar. A bit of googling got me here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508955.

I’d like to thank grishenko2000 for writing that little bit of shell script. It works perfectly, and recently, I’ve found myself actually using it, despite its being practically paleolithic compared to what I had on Windows. I just hope someone takes the idea a bit further and makes it a proper program with preferences and such. I’ve submitted the idea to ubuntu Brainstorm, so please vote for it there: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10883/

It would be such a useful little program.