⌨️ Sync your stuff with Syncthing
In my endeavour to simplify my setup of services I use (Dropbox, Mail, VPN etc.) I stumbled upon Syncthing. It is a peer-to-peer synchronization service that you can install on your different devices.
I was using Dropbox with Dropsync on my Android phone to keep my Obsidian Vault in sync between my laptop and phone. That was working ok-ish, but now Dropsync is showing me some popup that they are going to share data with xyz ... yeah no.
Installing Syncthing is reasonably straight-forward. There are plenty of good instructions floating around. Some things to keep in mind:
- the linux laptop needed firewall openings, easy to add using the documentation
- disable your VPN on the laptop and phone in case you have one running
- if devices show up as offline (even though they are on the same network) you can add their ip and port manually (if they have a static ip assigned by your router)
I set this up as a local sync setup. You can also use public relays to synchronize data over the internet, but I opted out from that.
--> syncthing.