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.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Logseq and syncthing

    I use these for both work and personal life - and you can edit on multiple devices…

    Now, the caveat there is, it’s not entirely realtime editing …

    logseq updates the display when the underlying markdown file changes, so you can edit on multiple devices if you let them sync which takes a second or so (setup that syncthing folder to watch the filesystem, instead of periodic)

    So, I edit a note on my phone, walk ovee to a laptop then see the changes come in and edit some more… pick up the phone, unlock it, probably ready to edit again…

    If I leave the house, syncthing could sync over the internet, but I’ve not aet that up… so in the unlikely chance that someone edits the file(s) on my laptop AND I edit on my phone, then syncthing would give me 2 files which others have explained well.

    BeyondCompare or meld or… vim… can do simple comparisons in these cases.

    Been doing this for a while…Just my 2p