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.

  • beengEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Git

    Then git pull rebase and commit. Done

    • ck_English
      2·
      10 months ago

      Does not have great UX on phones though.

      • beengEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I made some Termux shortcut scripts in bash for it. Works well, but not for everybody ;)

        • ck_English
          1·
          10 months ago

          Never had merge conflicts I take it 😄

          • beengEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            My phone script is quite simple, and I set it up on cron, so I don’t get out of state very often. I handle if there could be conflicts via script on my Linux pc with stash and pull etc. Automated cron also

            • ck_English
              1·
              10 months ago

              Yeah, and for that reason, I opted for syncthing instead of Git for this use case.

              • beengEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                I’ve not needed to deal with a conflict, it’s automated.

                But what’s the latency with syncthing or its instant?

                • ck_English
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Syncthing uses inotify to watch for changes, so it’s pretty much instant

                  • beengEnglish
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                    10 months ago

                    Might look into it if I get conflicts, thanks!