Sync "local file" with Syncthing?

[fccfc5d245c]

Hi,still testing, I've installed SP on a Linux PC and an Android phone. Both are set to sync via local file, then I sync both files with Syncthing, so the changes made to the file on Android are duplicated on the file on the PC and vice-versa.

It's what I do with other programs and works every time, but not with SP, I'm getting lots of sync conflicts.
I know I should be using something like WebDav, but I'm curious:

• What went wrong here?
• Can Syncthing be used for this purpose? Maybe syncing manually in a particular order?

[javierhb23]

Same issue here, it seems it's because SP includes the path to your local .json file inside the local .json file, which will cause other synced devices to look for that same path in their own filesystem structure, which won't the same if syncing between Android and Windows, Windows and Linux etc... I suggest moving this option
"localFileSync":{"syncFilePath":"/path/to/sync.json"}}
to somewhere that won't get synced, perhaps in $CONFIG/superProductivity/Preferences?

[javierhb23]

I just found out, as a quick workaround you can set syncFilePath in the .json file to an empty string. The app will still use this file for sync, just don't touch the setting on the actual app since it may set it again.
..."localFileSync":{"syncFilePath":""}}...

So I guess this is already stored locally somewhere, it just needs to not be included in the sync.json file.

[hdokes]

Greetings all,

I realize I am resurrecting an old thread here but please indulge me.

I am new today to super-productivity and have an initial concern that is associated with your topic here. I have watched videos by the author and have not found an answer to my primary question regarding this product. It is of the utmost importance to me that the application be available on all platforms, which besides a hiccup I am having with installing the windows version this product is. I use all platforms. Next to that, it is important that I can share data between all instances of the product working on all different platforms.

Can anyone explain the steps to being able to do this or point me to somewhere that shows how to do this?

Thank you for your time and info in advance.

hdokes

[fccfc5d245c]

Sorry @hdokes , I appear to have messed up my system. I don't know if a mobile update broke it or I made a mistake, but I can't recommend the way I was doing things. I haven't looked into it or tried to fix it yet, but maybe using Syncthing was a bad idea.
I might try the other sync options, I recommend you do the same.
Good luck!

[hdokes]

Thank you for your reply fccfc5d245c,

I would try other options.... if I could identify what those options may be... unless you are referring to an alternative to super-productivity itself.

[fccfc5d245c]

Under Settings / Sync & Export / Sync, I see options to sync via Dropbox, WebDAV and LocalFile. I've tried LocalFile with SyncThing, I don't know about the other ones, but you could try Dropbox, it should be the easiest choice.
I can't find any documentation right now, but there are:

• a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVqgqrUOTwo
• The official site: https://super-productivity.com/blog/
• And maybe it's explained here on GitHub

Good luck!

[2ManyProjects]

I just wanted to add my 2 cents

I use SuperProd across Linux and Android, one Linux device mainly uses the webapp and the other uses the desktop app. The webapp doesn't have access to the local files option for sync. And the saved file names are different, the webapp syncs with sp_main.json and sp_archive.json while the other save MAIN.json and ARCHIVE.json (the webapp also nests the folders when saving to dropbox so it ends up beingsaved under Apps/super_productivity/super_productivity

I was using this flow for the Desktop and ANdroid app, Sync to local file -> Syncthing pushes change to other devices
For the webapp I needed to integrate dropbox and have it still be insync with the syncthing monitored folder

So I setup a script on the server running Syncthings (in a docker container dropbox is running outside the docker container)
We use rclone to download the dropbox files, compare modfied date to the sync folder , which evers newer takes prescedence. We copy its contents so if MAiN.json is newer than sp_main.json we copy MAIN > sp_main. But it cant be a direct copy, we need to preserve the sync setting in the json so we don't change the sync config on devices where it should remain as is. So how ever you want to extract the json (I used jq) extract it and merge it while leaving the sync key alone. Hook this script up to a cronjob that runs every X minutes and it works pretty well to sync across different app types.