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You can export placemarks to a file and then use your own tools to sync. There's no reason why every single app has to include the kitchen sink.
by kilolima 3y ago
You can export placemarks to a file and then use your own tools to sync. There's no reason why every single app has to include the kitchen sink.
- timeon 3y agoThis. I'm tired of creating accounts. I have my own filesystem.
- ninkendo 3y agoI think Apple solves this pretty well in iOS… there’s pretty simple iCloud API’s apps can use to store basic data (also structured data with CKDatabase/etc) which automatically just use the user’s iCloud account storage and implicitly are synced across devices. Apps don’t have to implement any cloud storage or consensus/etc, they just use the platform API’s and everything just works. I’d be shocked if android/play store didn’t have a similar thing.
- skipnup 3y agoSame thing on Android, e.g., WhatsApp uses Google storage automatically for backups.
- pydry 3y agoI hate the way whatsapp does it specifically because it wont let me back up to file.
- dddw 3y agoOh it does backup to file, you just have just have to backup a very weird and almost hidden folder
- netsharc 3y agoHuh, on Android or iOS? On Android the backup settings page offer a backup to Google Drive, it also says "Your messages will also back up to your phone's internal storage."... On my phone the on-device backup can be found in /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases, and I remember reinstalling WhatsApp, logging in with my phone number, and it found the backup and restored the messages.
- remram 3y agoWhat's your proposed workflow? Hit "export" every time you create a bookmark? Add a weekly reminder to export? If it regularly exported automatically, it could get picked up by a syncing app, but otherwise...
- spookie 3y agoUse Syncthing or KDE Connect to sync a folder with that file between devices.
- Almondsetat 3y agoThis is needlessly inconvenient and you know it
- remram 3y agoWhere is "that file"? In an obscure part of the Android file system? Can I even access it without rooting my device?
- satvikpendem 3y agoLet's be honest, the average user will not do this. In fact, this comment reminds me of the infamous Dropbox one which suggested a similar failure of UX.
- pydry 3y agoSaving a file is not beyond the average user.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI'm not sure about that, Google Maps and many other apps these days now autosave such that the average user today likely doesn't save anything manually anymore. But even still, I have the same question as the sibling above [0], what is the proposed workflow for saving such a file? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38748346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38748346
- pydry 3y agoAutosave to file. Sync file to $backup. I already do this with as many apps as I can.
- satvikpendem 3y agoNow if only the app itself can do this for me so that I don't have to do it myself, which was my original point.
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- JeremyNT 3y agoBut organic maps users will never be average users! The average user is sticking with the default Apple or Google offerings, not looking for privacy respecting, FOSS, fully offline alternatives.