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I've been using dropbox to sync my org docs and has worked remarkably well. I once tried using synching and that resulted in almost immediate conflicts. This i
by tra3 2y ago
I've been using dropbox to sync my org docs and has worked remarkably well.
I once tried using synching and that resulted in almost immediate conflicts. This is not my area of expertise, but if I had to guess it's because dropbox is master-slave, where's synching is peer to peer.
The mobile story for org-mode is still not great.
- cidra_ 2y agoIf you have a 3rd always on device on Syncthing i believe the outcome would be similiar to Dropbox, right? Conflicts are unavoidable if two hosts write in an interleaved manner and with unreliable internet connection. For example Shopping List - Eggs - Bread - Molk <---- Host 1 edits this into "Milk" - Sugar - Coffee <---- Host 2 adds this line If these 2 changes occur at the same time, how would Dropbox merge them, having no knowledge of the semantics of the org document? There is a conflict and Dropbox may solve it in a "last writer wins" manner or by performing a merge by line like in git.
- tra3 2y agoI believe you're right, the key issue being out of order writes. With dropbox mostly being always online that has (almost?) never happened to me though.