I’ve just found Syncthing and I’m blown away by this app. So, I’m interested if any of my other apps can be replaced by foss equivalents that can be synced.

My first suggestion is Obsidian - which, at first I had problems syncing with paid solutions, but syncs flawlessly with Syncthing.

Does anyone have any more suggestions? Ideally looking to sync between android devices, but any info is much appreciated.

Update : many thanks for all the suggestions - some good ones. Hopefully we can keep adding the ones we find that can be synced from local folders.

  • t0fr
    14·
    1 year ago

    Any apps that use local files!

    I use it with Logseq for my notes, I sync the camera for my photos, and with Keepass for my passwords

    Edit: I guess Vinyl Record Player for my music as well, librera reader for my ebooks, and I’m trying AudioAnchor for my audio books (but I’m not really happy with this one and I’m going to try to find a different app)

  • freijon@feddit.ch
    5·
    1 year ago

    DecSync CC is an app that stores calendar / tasks / contacts as files on the phone. You can sync them to other devices. I use it to sync our family calendar and contacts in our household. No clouds involved.

  • Danileonis @lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    I opened this pretty recently

    I’m using KeePass for notes and passwords; any local player like VLC is good for music or videos; any gallery app is good for your photos.

    • Rambler@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’d actually made a comment on that thread (duh). I guess before I realised how good / useable Syncthing was.

      Edit: grammar

  • OtterAEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Possibly Joplin? Similar idea

  • 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use it on logseq, on aegis backups (2FA app), KeePassDX for my passwords, also I have a folder inside my picture galleries which is synced with my computer, so everytime I take a picture I want to save on my computer y just copy it there. Also I have plain text editor and I have a txt file shared with my computer I use it mainly to share web links between my devices. I’m still looking for ways to sync calendars and to do apps, so I can get notifications everywhere for my events so I dont forget them, but havent manage to do it just yet.

    • Rambler@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also I have plain text editor and I have a txt file shared with my computer

      Hi, can you share the name of your plain text editor? I use aCalendar+ and opentasks synced via davx5 on Nextcloud.

      • 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I used one called simple generic text editor available on f droid. However I just found out KDE connect works very well for sharing links and clipboard. It is even better and faster and works with almost all operating systems i guess. Would be nice to give it a try.

        • Rambler@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for the reply. I like obsidian at the moment: I can sync across all my devices - using Syncthing, so it’s very workable for me. I guess whichever editor works for you is good - though I must admit obsidian is a bit too overloaded for me, but I’ll persist as the Syncthing works well. I’ll try to simplify it with minimal plugins.