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.

    • density@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      best description I have ever read of syncthing. they should put this in their readme or about page. describes the pros & cons in an honest way. I’ve had all the problems you describe and will probably have them again in the future, be confounded, be frustrated.

      I get (mostly) worry-free backups

      except this; it’s sync not back up. ;) but it is very backup-like and in some situations does the job as well or better than backups

      I <3 syncthing nevertheless

    • Moshpirit@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you so much for such a complete answer!! I think I’ll give a try! BTW, why using Synching for different devices but not different computers?

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

        Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

        IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.