It turns out I’m really good at putting information into Tomboy and really bad at reading it back out, or changing it.
I was going through old notes today, and besides the mass of phone numbers, promo codes, interesting URLs and backtraces was a ToDo list from around 2008: learn Telepathy.
Something to check off 
Yep! I have a similar Tomboy note collection
Telepathy Tubes look like one of the greatest networking technologies out there. Advancing past that and getting to use the rest of it would be nice too!
There’s now a node-gir, which suits my play style; just found out about it today, and I’m way happy about it.