WebDAV sync support

[nevenz]

This will also support ownCloud (#28) and Nextcloud (#33) sync.

[btimofeev]

This will also support Yandex Disk sync.

[rafaelleru]

Working on this also.

[gour]

@rafaelleru hiya, just switched back to orgmode (from taskwarrior) and looking what is the best or most reliable syncing client for Android...for my calendars/contacts I'm using Baikal, so wonder if that should be supported as well in Orgzly by this 'WebDAV sync support' ? Any (rough) ETA?

[rafaelleru]

Yeah, walways that you have a webDAV link it should works fine. @gour

[gour]

@rafaelleru that's great! how far have you arrived with it?

[rafaelleru]

I'm currently finishing my university exams but in one week I will have so much time, so I think that I will have it finish for august. @gour

[jmgrosen]

@rafaelleru What's your status on this? Could you push your existing code somewhere?

[rafaelleru]

Hy guis I was busy this summer, on monday I will have my work pc again and upload the full code, I was restarting all my work because sardine causes problems in new android versions, I will kept you info about progress 😄

[michaelcadilhac]

Hi there @rafaelleru ! Has this been put upstream? Do you need betatesters? In my experience, FolderSync+Orgzly just doesn't work; Orgzly always reports sync conflicts (though I'm inclined to think that it's FolderSync's fault). For the moment, I manually "Force save" every now and then, which is quite problematic. Thanks so much for your work! Cheers!

[rafaelleru]

Hy, recently my pc crashes I will back to work the next week as soon I have another one, sorry for the inconvenience. I will push my work soon.

[ghost]

I will also volunteer to beta test this.. I'm anxiously anticipating this feature.

[bighi]

So... any news on WebDAV support? Any way I can help?

[uGeek]

any news on WebDAV support?

many free software applications include synchronization with nextcloud

Simpletask, joplin...

Include webdav includes being able to synchronize with Nextcloud, Owncloud, Seafile (opensource) and Yandex, Box.com, Stack, Zimbra...

Many clouds with only one added. a lot of synchronization power

[ghost]

Webdav support would allow easy integration with an rclone serve process (via termux, for example), thereby providing encrypted sync capability with Amazon Drive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Ceph, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dreamhost, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, HTTP, Hubic, IBM COS S3, Memset Memstore, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft OneDrive, Minio, Nextloud, OVH, Openstack Swift, Oracle Cloud Storage, Ownloud, pCloud, put.io, QingStor, Rackspace Cloud Files, SFTP, Wasabi, WebDAV, Yandex Disk, and The local filesystem.

So, to me, this is a big win if we can get it done. (Nobody should have to put their notes unencrypted onto a cloud service. Of course, if orgzly supported GPG encryption of the files ... #43, #202 .)

[michaelcadilhac]

@rafaelleru Any update? Cheers!

[vit1-irk]

Upvote this thing. File synchonization is good, but you must use your own (maybe unstable) scripts to work properly without conflicts.

I am stuck in using one-way sync with Nextcloud just to avoid file conflicts and not to bother with scripts. It is very depressing and I can't use Orgzly in its full potential. Having your own personal manager like org-mode means you can use it anywhere, from any device so you can picture all possible information and share it without trouble.

[ghost]

FWIW, https://syncthing.net/ works well for syncing my org notes on linux and android. It provides automatic sync across my devices, without a third-party cloud provider. It also supports MacOS and Windows.

[vit1-irk]

@apnewberry tried to install Syncthing, it works fine, but it will be perfect just to use Nextcloud and not to produce extra essences. Currently I'll combine these two storage platforms (Syncthing for org-files and Nextcloud for main storage) and watch how the battery life is going. Syncthing shows persistent notification and tracks all filesystem & server changes.

[NiceFeather]

Good news, WebDAV sync LAN file server feature is must have, Look forwards to this for long time.

[809825706]

so, When will the WebDAV sync support?

[NiceFeather]

so, When will the WebDAV sync support?

Looking forwards to this at milestone v1.8 , No due date.

[809825706]

Is possible it to add support for onedrive? Dropbox is not available in my country. I use onsync now but there is a serious delay when work with pc and phone.

[antonymerle]

Webdav support would be great. I don't want to put my data on dropbox.

[tasn]

Another alternative is adding https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks support which will make this just work with DAVx5 and EteSync. Just a thought...

[igoralmeida]

@tasn I took a very quick look at opentasks, do I understand correctly that it would enable a sort of "querying" of my orgzly notes, and somehow I'd be able to hook it to my calendar as well?
That's cool and would be something nice to have indeed, but I wonder if it works for more general note-taking, since not all notes are "tasks" to be completed, for example.

[tasn]

@igoralmeida, sorry, I wasn't clear before. OpenTasks is a task interface for Android that a few apps (EteSync, DAVx5, Opentasks and etc) already understand. This will just be a standard way of exposing Orgzly to other apps on the phone, including DAVx5 (which implements WebDAV).
This is for tasks and I think fits orgzly quite well. You don't need to associate a due-date.

One can also make a similar interface for notes (e.g. an interface replacing Google Keep), though I think this is not really for orgzly, but rather more for apps like Markor which actually implement note taking.

[smnthermes]

Currently I'll combine these two storage platforms (Syncthing for org-files and Nextcloud for main storage) and watch how the battery life is going.

@vit1-irk wouldn't it be better to use just one app for both things? 🤔

[vit1-irk]

Currently I'll combine these two storage platforms (Syncthing for org-files and Nextcloud for main storage) and watch how the battery life is going.

@vit1-irk wouldn't it be better to use just one app for both things?

Of course it would be. But orgzly still doesn't support Nextcloud. But Syncthing works not bad

[gerroon]

Hi

I setup webdav with Nextcloud in Orgzly. It says no notebooks found. How do I setup the folders on the webdav side so Orgzly can access them?