Re: Real-time, granular synchronization of .org files across devices?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Ant via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
writes:

> I've been using Emacs+Org Mode on my Linux and Android devices
> for some time now and have been encountering some little synchronization
> issues that have made it difficult for me to use Org as a task manager.
> ...
> One such concrete instance of this problem is when I clock-in an
> entry from my smartphone and then try to edit another entry from my
> laptop with no Internet connection.  Syncthing has no way to perform an
> automatic conflict resolution and couldn't care less if the edits on the
> .org file are disjointed or not.

You can try https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
Also, there is https://github.com/Artawower/orgnote.el (still in early development).

> Alternatively, I'd also like to now if there could be in the future
> solutions like obsidian-livesync
> (https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync) which apparently allow to
> perform live synchronization over multiple writes on the same file. I
> don't really need to know if someone will work on it (which is obviously
> unpredictable) but rather if it would be feasible or if Emacs (being
> single threaded, for example) and Org could instead be a blocker.

Single threading is not an issue. In fact, Emacs already has
https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el that provides live collaborative
editing. In theory, you might even make crdt.el work on your phone with
the new official Emacs Android port. Might be tricky though.

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