dharmik on Nostr: setting up my vimwiki sync turned out to be quite the journey. my main laptop runs ...
setting up my vimwiki sync turned out to be quite the journey.
my main laptop runs windows because of crappy college requirements (and because i don’t want people seeing what i work on when i connect it to a projector). my other machines usually run pop os or debian. on windows, i use wsl2 most of the time.
i tried syncing vimwiki with syncthing, but ios restrictions (no background apps!) and the lack of working port forwarding on wsl2 made it a dead end. i even tried installing syncthing on windows and syncing the folder directly through the wsl2 directory—no luck there either.
after a lot of trial and error, i finally found a solution that works! i set up a cron job on debian wsl2 to copy my vimwiki files to a windows directory every night at 9 pm. from there, they sync to my other devices.
a thrilling weekend.
my main laptop runs windows because of crappy college requirements (and because i don’t want people seeing what i work on when i connect it to a projector). my other machines usually run pop os or debian. on windows, i use wsl2 most of the time.
i tried syncing vimwiki with syncthing, but ios restrictions (no background apps!) and the lack of working port forwarding on wsl2 made it a dead end. i even tried installing syncthing on windows and syncing the folder directly through the wsl2 directory—no luck there either.
after a lot of trial and error, i finally found a solution that works! i set up a cron job on debian wsl2 to copy my vimwiki files to a windows directory every night at 9 pm. from there, they sync to my other devices.
a thrilling weekend.