Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? - eviltoast

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.

  • 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.

    • shadejinx@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I sync multiple computers but not directly. Everything goes to the NAS and then anything I want to share comes from the NAS. That way versioning is on one device and not spread out all over.