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Sync to Nextcloud....without Nextcloud (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I've been on the hunt for a Google Keep replacement and the most obvious choice is Quillpad. However it can only sync with Nextcloud and that functionality is somewhat broken. For example, if I create a To Do list in Quillpad, I can of course check the boxes as items are completed. I can do the same in the Nextcloud instance under Tasks. But if I create a To Do list in Nextcloud, you cannot interact with them in Quillpad after it syncs. They're displayed, but you can't do anything with them.

All that said, the other choices were Zoho Notebooks (don't trust them) and Carnet (weirdly slow on my phone) as far as similar apps. Quillpad still seems to be the best. Is there a way to get an app that only syncs with Nextcloud to sync with something else? DavX, Webdav, Caldav, etc? The reason I ask is because I wanted to like Nextcloud, but my admittedly older server (HP Microserver G8) struggles even with the optimized builds and it just has way more features than I need. I have a feeling the answer is no, but thought I'd ask anyway before I continue my hunt.

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[–] Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried the Notes app in Nextcloud? I moved all my keep notes to that not too long ago, and they show up as markdown files when you sync them to your desktop. There's a Notes Android app as well.

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did actually. And unfortunately Nextcloud doesn't run well on my hardware at all. Perhaps I'll revisit should I upgrade down the road.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like NextCloud needs some relatively capable hardware to run on, and their minimum specs are bullshit.

I've tried it on a relatively capable PC (with an old i7) in a docker container in WSL, and it ran like shit. I'm sure it would have run better natively, but I don't want to devote that entire machine to NextCloud.

I've tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) and it ran like shit. People keep saying it runs on low-powered hardware, but I have yet to see it.

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have to agree with you here. I tried the official Nextcloud docker as well as the AIO container that has some performance optimization tweaks. They both ran terribly on my Microserver G8 with 16GB RAM and an upgraded CPU (Xeon E3-1265L v2). Which I realize is a bit long in the tooth tech wise, but even if I paused or stopped all other containers to try to give it even more system resources, it ran really poorly. I do have a Pi4 as well but figured why bother. I don't need all of the features NC has. I've been testing Seafile for storage/sync and while it has a quirk or two, it works insanely fast. But it's also a different beast entirely.