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For those using it on Android, a reminder that the older app is not maintained anymore and you might want to replace it with Catfriend1/syncthing-android.
But also - maybe wait for the app v2.0 to be released to upgrade the desktop client at the same time; I don't know if using v2.0 on the desktop would work with the v1.x app.
There is already a prerelease of the 2.0 app for android π (haven't tried it yet though)
It works very well!
Why did they fork the app?
I think the original wasn't getting maintained properly or something. There was a big conversation about it a couple of months ago on one of the open source communities here if you want to search for it. Nothing shady iirc.
I developed the Android app for Syncthing years ago. But then I didnt have time (or motivation) for that anymore. Developing Lemmy is much more interesting for me really nowadays.
Thanks for your work on both!
I was in the impression itβs development stopped altogether since mobile app support dropped. Cool!
Emacs Org mode (or Logseq) and Syncthing together are probably the only system I have found that works for my chaos, I am very thankful for how these softwares have allowed me to structure my organizational system in a way that is simple and I have direct control over.
Also, it takes years for me to integrate habits deeply into my life with many many many repetitions necessary to lock the habit in, so being able to organize things in plaintext gives me much needed assurance that I won't have the rug pulled out from under me by the company behind the product enshittifying or going out of business.
Syncthing is critical to my organizational systems because it makes the sharing of notes between devices agnostic of the specific notes system I am using. Syncthing shares a folder and it has some text files in it... those could be .org emacs org mode files or logseq files.. it doesn't matter I can change my notes system and retain the same sharing mechanism.
From the bottom of my heart thank you to everyone who has worked on these tools, I plan to keep donating to and supporting these projects in the future!
Sounds like my use case except I use Obsidian.
Obsidian seems great and the company seems genuinely very decent. I appreciate that the file format isn't locked down and that it retains a plaint text philosophy. Do you use Syncthing for sharing Obsidian notes between devices?
Yes. I have my Obsidian vaults in a synced folder. There's a subscription option available from Obsidian for $5 but Syncthing does this just fine. Plus I get a little version control benefit from Syncthing as well. I use one vault for personal notes and another vault for TTRPG notes.
This is very exciting! But I'm relying on third-party addons for both Android (syncthing-fork from Fdroid, itself a fork of syncthing-android which wasn't being maintained) and windows (syncthing tray). I think my Mac and Linux machines are using standard syncthing, but I'll be waiting a little bit for the rest of the community/ecosystem to catch up!
Syncthing-fork is syncthing-android. View the app in fdroid then view sourcecode links you to catfriend1 github