This just makes me so sad. The author's work flow cries out for sharing, not syncing, perhaps augmented by some sort of notification system. This is a problem

This just makes me so sad. The author's work flow cries out for sharing, not syncing, perhaps augmented by some sort of notification system. This is a problem my filesystem colleagues should have solved years (decades?) ago. Arguably they did so at a technical level, but the user and administrator experiences were so horrific that people abandoned those solutions. Instead they turned to things such as Dropbox and its (too) many imitators, which put the right interface on top of the wrong solution instead of the other way around. Now there's so much storage and bandwidth wasted storing copies insecurely on services such as Dropbox, when it should be going directly between users' systems with no middle man to pay for compromising security. It's a business model that shouldn't even exist. What a waste.