Synchronizing Files On Multiple Computers Under Linux
I am a Knowledge Geek. I like collecting knowledge, searching knowledge, and organizing knowledge. If you read my post on my recent cellphone research, you know what I mean. I take notes at most meetings and conference I go to. That often turns out to be very advantageous, especially on longer-term projects where it could be important to find out when a particular decision was made, by who, and why. I’ve always named the files staring with the group/project/company name, followed by a YYYYMMDD timestamp, and optionally a topic after that, so finding things isn’t too hard. The larger problem I started facing recently though, is I have been taking notes on multiple computers. I needed a way of making sure I had access to at least some of these notes when and where I need them.
Up until fairly recently, I had my server and my laptop. All notes were taken on the laptop (and backed up to external USB drive). Then I got an iPhone, and found note-taking on that quite practical (using QuickOffice). Then I got a netbook (Dell Mini 10), and started using that for meetings (after I got the netbook, I didn’t use the iPhone for note-taking very much). The end result was these meeting notes were not where I needed them. I needed a way of synchronizing these notes between computers.
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