Looking for good/helpful software for windows to get. Stuff that offers QoL improvements etc
And no I don’t care about Linux so don’t bother suggesting I switch to it.
Looking for good/helpful software for windows to get. Stuff that offers QoL improvements etc
And no I don’t care about Linux so don’t bother suggesting I switch to it.
Veracrypt so that I can keep personal files safe from being read from the hard-drive (eg if it’s stolen and removed).
Winmerge for comparing files.
Obsidian for organizing notes (and emacs, but you probably don’t want that unless you already use it!)
Resilio sync so that I can mirror files to other PCs to be backed up.
Irfanview for image viewing.
Plus stuff that others have mentioned.
Do you have Obsidian syncing with a mobile device? I’ve been trying to find a good way to do that. Currently using Nextcloud but it’s janky. I know you can pay them for their sync feature but it’s not worth $8 a month to me and I want to host it myself.
I use syncthing without any problems.
Syncthing Syncthing Syncthing works flawlessly /plugover :)
My current plan is to use SyncThing on the phones and on a linux PC. I’ve set up Obsidian to use a directory locally on the phone (Open Folder As Vault) and use SyncThing to sync that with the PC. As this is only a recent test, I’m still using resilio to sync that dir to other PCs such as my laptop. I just added to a note on my phone and it appeared in Obsidian on my laptop a few seconds later, despite two different syncs being involved.
I’d commented about bugs such as the sync percentage being stuck at 91%, but on reading up on it more, that’s due to a mis-match of ignored files (the ignore patters were the same, but it was still indicating that the files did not match between the two devices).
So my thoughts still stand that SyncThing has a lot of things to set up manually (e.g. it doesn’t automaticall sync between all peers) and the mobile app is strange for having two different UIs, but it looks like as I understand it better I’m happier to keep using it.
If I find that the Resilio phone app is better on battery life, I might switch back to that because I use resilio everywhere else and it’s simpler to set up (and I like that it archives old versions of files for a while).
If you can create notes on the phone you’re doing better than I am with Nextcloud. I’ve never been able to get anything I made on the phone to sync, i can edit and it will sync TO the phone but for whatever reason it doesn’t work the other way with new files. I have a workaround of having a standing “scratch” note that I copy stuff out of when i’m back at home but it’s an extra annoyance i’d rather not deal with.
Syncthing seems to be a good way to get real-time two-way sync so far, but I’ve had a few accidents while setting it up, overwriting latest changes. Probably my fault, but I’m glad that I have backups to other machines.
I tried owncloud years ago and I didn’t want something that heavyweight for file syncing. And I think it stores a copy of all it’s days in a database too. I just want to sync files in-place only. I haven’t tried that or nextcloud in a long time.
Finally somebody mentions this. It’s lightweight & loads quickly; is highly customizable and can do a number of image edits like cropping, filters, resize with various resampling methods; it can save to a bunch of different formats; etc. It’s always been one of the first things I install.
I’ve always preferred it to similar programs, it’s a really good balance of easy to use viewer and those basic editing features that you mention. Really good for printing, too, you can specify size and/or position on a page.
Is reselio sync better than say syncthing and folder sync?