Cross-post from: https://lemmy.world/post/9282945

I’d like to sync my markdown notes between devices (laptop and phone), which service is better: Nextcloud or Syncthing? Any other important idea I should know?, like latency times, or maximum number of synced devices, what if I edit the same note from both places without internet and then both get connected to a network… For example, I know Nextcloud let me have a history of the notes.

  • everydaybananas
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    7 months ago

    Depends on the PKM tool I would say. I used Joplin with its internal sync with Nextcloud without problems in the past. Then I switched to Logseq which does not have an integrated sync so I had to rely on the respective clients. On Windows and Linux this works fine with Nextcloud, but automatic sync on phones (at least Android) sucks. So I switched to Syncthing for this purpose as the phone sync is more reliable now. I have however a small “server” (RPi or similar is sufficient) running 24/7 to keep the notes in sync even if my devices would not be online in parallel.