Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Moshpirit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 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

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023

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