Always enjoyed scrolling though these posts, figured I’d give it a go here:

What are your must-have selfhosted services?

Some of mine:

  • Yote.zip
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    28 months ago

    It depends on what your workflow/usecase for putting documents on the drive currently is. Syncthing is usually intended to be put on two separate devices, and then a folder on each device gets synchronized - meaning you have a folder of your documents on each device. Is there any reason not to just mount the network drive's folder and drag the documents in that way?

    • Dandroid
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      18 months ago

      Yeah, that's how I do it now. I just mount the network drive on each PC and they can all access the same files. I'm just wondering if there's a usecase that syncthing has that my workflow doesn't that I just can't think of because I haven't used it.

      • Yote.zip
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        38 months ago

        Yeah I wouldn't bother. It intends for you to have a duplicate copy on every device, which is probably not what you want. Syncthing is really good for things like synchronizing notes, calendars, password databases, music, etc to your devices. Things that you want to access in both places, but that are usually disconnected from each other from time to time.

        • Dandroid
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          28 months ago

          Oh, got it. That makes sense. Thanks for the info!