Still reading very interesting things here and there and everywhere !
So now that I have managed to set up at least one of the two elements that I absolutely need from the cloud - Calendar - and that I am probably going to manage to set up the second and last one (Notes, from Keep) with your help, now comes the next step
How to make my other mobile device (a tablet) communicate / synchronize with the data (calendars and notes) on my Murena Workspace - especially if it’s still not degoogled ?
Is there a single answer? Not sure.
I suppose the other mobile device needs an app that is capable of synchronizing … ?
Is another program/app necessary (like a connection manager, an account manager) ?
Or does it depend on the app(s) (perhaps some include a manager and some don’t) ?
As I said, I just need syncing for Notes and Calendar… And it’s all new land to me, I’m just guessing (from what I read).
I hope some of you can give me answer and/or point ou to me where I could find the right information (because I don’t seem to have so far) (and it surprises me, because I can’t be the only one; so I will be looking further).
for regular Androids you choose the upstream of what /e/OS forked
Davx5 from F-Droid for Adressbook and calendar
for mail: Thunderbird
Notes: Nextcloud Notes (needs the official Nextcloud Client too - that you can use for file access)
that said, NN isn’t very robust in my experiene. If you’re a heavy notes user, Obsidian is fine but closed source. It can live of a folder that you can get to sync.
I have a - practically functional solution at the moment for Calendar synchronisation, thanks to your tips (thanks to tcecik; see above).
I’ll report on this later on…
At the moment I’m still struggling with Notes (ex-Keep).
After hesitations, I decided to work with Simple Notes Sync (again thanks to tcecik; see here).
But my problem is now that, although the network data I entered into the app allowed communication (button Test the connexion : accessible), synchronization was not possible (button Synchronize now : access refused) !
I’m wondering if there is perhaps indeed an incompatibility ? Or is there something else I forgot ?
SNS doesn’t do webdav well-known uri discovery, you need to give it the full path to what speak webdav. Check the “External” tab so it says https in front of:
https://murena.io/remote.php/webdav
and for username, give the full murena email adress. Then webdav sync will work. It expects Notes in /Notes/ and can’t do subdirectories though.
For the Google Keep Notes: check in which zip the Notes are in and feed that one to the App. The zips can be big depending on your use of other products. In doubt you can prepare a custom zip that preserves the directory hierachy.
Btw, if you can still edit the title of your post, it should have “access Notes” and maybe “Google Keep import” in there for other people to find.
I just managed right now to run the .py script and transform/translate all my .json & .html files (from my google takeout) into .md files ! They are ready for further tranfer…
I’l look into both possiblities (what you told me right now and the other way that you mentioned yesterday) right now…
Well all not as easy as it seems - “incompatibility” is the key word !
Every app does what it want - of sorts!
So to make a loooong story short:
I decided to stick with Simple Notes Sync - on both devices: my google-locked tablet and my google-free e/os FairPhone 4 ! Because, at least, one app speaks one language.
And even there I am not yet sure if this is going to go the way I imagine.
I’m still doing an umpteenth transfer of data (this time not between my computer and the Murena Workspace, but between my tablet and the Murena workspace…), don’t ask !..
It finished 4 minutes ago. Now I’m going to see if the syncing from the app on the tablet to the Workspace is being seen by the app on the phone…
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Apparently this is not possible: I tried to click on the pen in the top right corner, but the window that came up did not allow me to do any editing (neither of the title nor of my post for that matter - surprising).
Well, actually, in this topic I wanted to include a more general topic: “synchronizing”, “cloud computing”, “server/client relationship” - albeit I have no clue about these matters, and if it’s really what it’s all about, as (although I have been a user of Linux since Jan 2005, and of GNU-Debian ever since early 2007) I have never been involved in having my own server at home or anything near this…
Well, it’s high time I did…
And I realize no thing compares to another…
I maybe ought to have split this two aspects (calendars and notes), but I didn’t…
Anyway: here are my solutions to these two situations with calendars and notes (if I may remind: what appsfor my still google-locked tablet?).
Calendars
DAVx5 as connection manager (only for calDAV)
KashCal as an app, for I felt it is hugely capable (if I may allow myself : see here).
Notes (aka google Keep)
as mentioned above, I decided to use Simple Notes Sync on my google-locked tablet - and on my google-free e/os FairPhone 4: this way it is guaranteed that what the app on my phone sends to the (specially created for that matter, there was no other way) directory on Murena Workspace, will undoubtedly be found in that same directory by the (same) app on my tablet (there must be definitive ageement on paths between apps…).
At this final stage, I must - again - say thank you very much to tcecyk for all his contributions (in different threads on this forum). I considered each and every one of his suggestions, and decided with knowledge and specific priorities in mind.
But I feel I learnt a lot these past few days - and this is the main thing.
I’m ready to face the coming days with a set of functional mobile devices.
(Up until the next challenge)
