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I heard this a lot: Evernote sync-ing is buggy. Could someone point to me how to implement a good cross-device sync-ing algorithms? Or is it perhaps just as sim

I heard this a lot: Evernote sync-ing is buggy. Could someone point to me how to implement a good cross-device sync-ing algorithms? Or is it perhaps just as simple as using object version based on timestamp? I've never done this before so I have no clue how easy/hard it is to implement one.

aaronbrethorst 11y ago
why not libgit2 with a decent diff/merge UI?
snaily 11y ago
Here's a set of slides on how Spotify does it with playlists: http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/JimmyMrdell/playlists-at-spotify-cassandra-summit-london-2013 http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/JimmyMrdell/playlists-at-sp...
twic 11y ago
The gold standard right now is operational transformation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation But this requires that you capture every edit, which (I think) makes it more complicated than classical merging techniques which just work on whole documents as input.