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saket / press

Cross-platform markdown editor written in Kotlin Multiplatform (work in progress)

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Sync notes through git #52

Closed saket closed 4 years ago

saket commented 4 years ago

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and I think the best way of offering syncing is by not maintaining my own syncing backend. Syncing is a hard problem. The plan is to piggyback on git for syncing notes to a remote git repository. It'll have some great benefits by letting users,

own their notes
use a different app on platforms unsupported by Press
and even move on to a different markdown app if they decide Press is crap

I understand that by doing this I'm effectively restricting Press to nerds but I'm okay with that. Press will let users login using their github/gitlab/bitbucket account for auto-adding an SSH key to their account.

saket commented 4 years ago

I think I'm nearly done for a first cut. Just gotta figure out how to correctly resolve merge conflicts with file deletions because Jgit has incorrect implementation of merge strategies.

okmanideep commented 4 years ago

@saket Curious if you have considered syncing via Dropbox / Drive / OneDrive etc.

saket commented 4 years ago

@okmanideep I made this decision a few months ago so I'm a bit hazy on the details. Let me try recalling them:

I realized that adding support for just one service won't be enough. People have different preferences for Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive, etc. I'd have to add support for atleast the two major ones -- Dropbox and Drive. This felt like a lot more work.
I felt overwhelmed and lost in the APIs of both Dropbox and Drive.
I really like the simplicity of using git and believe that users in my demography will feel the same.
Revision history of both Dropbox and Drive are very limited. Git is unlimited.

saket commented 4 years ago

An early preview was released with v1.5.1. Please try it out and send feedback!