I don't know of any ready-made built-in Windows sync-to-android
automated solutions (where you populate a folder with text files &
it's always synced) but they probably exist - which would be an
improvement on this.
I don't know of any ready-made built-in Windows sync-to-android
automated solutions (where you populate a folder with text files &
it's always synced) but they probably exist - which would be an
improvement on this.
Google Drive
OneDrive
Dropbox
and other file sync services where they have an app for Windows,
Android, and iOS, and sync via cloud to many devices. You need an
account at the cloud sync service.
All it really needs is some kind of rsync that syncs a folder over Wi-Fi. Especially when my Android phone is always mounted as the P: drive anyway.
Here are a dozen free file sync solutions but I don't know if they work. https://www.goodfirms.co/file-sync-software/blog/the-top-11-free-and-open-source-file-sync-software
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:34:11 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:I'm entrenched in Google. I have Google home devices (2) in the house,
Here are a dozen free file sync solutions but I don't know if they work.
https://www.goodfirms.co/file-sync-software/blog/the-top-11-free-and-open-source-file-sync-software
I went through that long list of rsync freeware on Windows to make this
list of what I will try, one by one, in this order (and I asked on the freeware newsgroup if they have suggestions for rsync on Windows too). https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.freeware/c/1aHsCcUKVe8
https://owncloud.com/
https://freefilesync.org/ & https://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/ https://www.syncfolders.elementfx.com/home.html
https://www.dirsyncpro.org/
https://cyberduck.io/
https://www.ubackup.com/free-backup-software.html https://www.goodfirms.co/software/dirsync-pro
https://syncthing.net/
https://pydio.com/ https://www.ascompsoftware.com/index.php?php=prog&prog=synchredible https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
https://allwaysync.com/
https://www.goodsync.com/
One of those should be able to sync the phone which is always mounted using net use P: \\192.168.0.200@8080\SyncFolder
I'm hooked. My son (35 years younger) got me into this.
Using <news:uo29a0$m39m$2@dont-email.me>, Big Al wrote:If they want to know I eat burritos and Cheerios, then all the better.
I'm hooked. My son (35 years younger) got me into this.
Agree the online marketing attempts to lure us in are purposefully
seductive where it's nice to know Google cares about our privacy.
My memory is bad.This does not sync with your computer, but I have it on my and my wife
And I run out of stuff.
Every once in a while it comes to me I need to replenish a supply item.
Maybe it's AAA batteries. Or epoxy. Spray paint. Mouse traps. Whatever.
Invariably, a few hours later, I forget what it was that I was low on.
Hence, when I'm at the store, I can't remember what it was I had needed.
Too late, I only figure it out when at home I need it again. And I'm out. This is mostly for things I am just getting low on, or I just used up.
Like, let's say, you you're getting low on whiteout or on scotch tape.
It's not important enough for its own trip, so you put it on a list.
You forget about it as you only need the list when you're at the store.
At the store, all you have at that time, is your phone.
And you can't remember what it was that you wanted to replenish.
So I keep a plain ASCII text file on my phone that started from Windows. Starting from Windows, somehow, allows me to edit in any Android editor. (Don't ask me why or how that works as I don't understand how it works.)
I keep a folder on the homescreen filled with text-reminder files.
Organized by store type (hardware, grocery, clothing, whatever).
Because my eyes are bad, I make the homescreen shortcut icon obvious.
With a big bold very obvious store icon for each type of store text file. (The whole goal here is efficiency as you won't use it if it's not fast.)
Like that big orange obvious you-can't-miss-it Home Depot icon image.
When I'm at home, and I notice I'm low on ten-penny nails, I whip out the phone, tap the homedepot.txt shortcut icon & speak into the microphone
"Ten penny nails" & then I slide the phone back into my pocket.
Quick. Fast. Easy. Efficient. Otherwise I won't use it.
Then, days or weeks later, I'm at the Home Depot wondering what I need.
I whip out the phone, tap the homescreen HomeDepot icon & it reminds me.
"Ten penny nails"
With my bad eyes, I don't want to be reading the names on the files.
I need some way to differentiate Home Depot from, oh, say, Costco.
I want to see a big obvious orange HomeDepot icon standing out for me.
Here's a neat but super duper simple trick to creating icons.
To make those shortcut icons, I go to "images.google.com" web page.
But I go no further than that one web page (which is the trick).
Examples are Amazon, Target, Costco, A&P, GrandUnion, whatever.
But let's say you want to make an icon for Home Depot, for example.
The only icon web page you need to go to is this one page & stop there. https://www.google.com/search?q=home+depot&tbm=isch
Instead of fighting the Google propensity to make it another fifty clicks before I can actually save an image file which is going to be too big,
on Windows I just press the 'printscreen' button to copy the whole page.
That's it.
I'm done with obtaining the image.
Now all I have to do is crop it and save it in the correct ratio & format.
First I paste into Irfanview the whole page that the PrtScrn had saved.
Then I crop out any desired image and save as a 1:1 ratio PNG file.
It's not intuitive how to crop a square in Irfanview so I'll tell you how. Actually, t's rather tricky as there are many entree point to the crop GUI.
Here's one way.
While viewing the pasted results in Irfanview, press [Shift+C] to
"Create custom selection" & select the "1:1" side ratio & save it.
This will crop a 1:1 square (always of the wrong size & location)
on your window which you then delicately move around and resize using a rather deft combination of your left & right mouse buttons.
You can also use the "Alt" key while drawing the to-be-cropped box.
Expect frustration, but you may get the hang of it after a few tries.
Once you have the 1:1 square positioned & sized now you can crop.
Press [Control+Y] and/or [Control+Shift+Y} to crop to your square.
Save as a "PNG" file & copy over to the phone's icon directory.
(For whatever reason, "ICO" files don't work on my Android phone.)
The number of pixels don't really matter, which is why a screenshot
of the google images works even better than does saving an ICO file.
Besides, saving the image often requires visiting web pages.
Each of which has cookie issues and watermark issues and the like.
Just a screenshot of the Google Images results works better for icons.
I can usually pick out a perfectly recognizable icon from this one page. https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=costco&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=target&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=auto+parts&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=dollar+store&tbm=isch
And so on.
On the phone, locate the homedepot.txt file & make a shortcut.
Most Android file managers make shortcuts (eg https://mixplorer.com/). Longpress on the shortcut & set the icon to the one you copied over.
After that, when you're rooting around in the garage toolbox and you
suddenly notice you are getting low on yellow teflon tape (or whatever),
you whip out your phone, tap the big fat orange recognizable homedepot homescreen shortcut icon, and speak into the microphone "teflon tape".
If desired, you can replace the text editor with a checkbox app.
Such as any one of these, but they don't allow a text file per store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ash.fly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ctoad.android.DoBe2 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secuso.privacyfriendlytodolist
If one of those todo checklist apps could save a separate text file,
then they'd be OK but if you use multiple todo apps, you need to learn multiple GUIs where with a text file you only need to learn one GUI.
Nice. Quick. Easy. Simple. Efficient.
Improvements?
One possible improvement is automatic syncronization of the todo files.
To sync the Windows text files with Android & vice versa you can use any of the quick peer-to-peer file transfer solutions everyone uses such as
USB (connect the cable for file transfer if you're close to the PC)
Bluetooth (use the Windows fsquirt.exe file transfer if you're not)
WebRTC (use webrtc like https://www.sharedrop.io/ if bridging networks) WebDAV (set up the Android phone over Wi-Fi to mount as a drive letter) sdcard (use the sdcard if all else fails syncing over your local network)
I don't know of any ready-made built-in Windows sync-to-android automated solutions (where you populate a folder with text files & it's always
synced) but they probably exist - which would be an improvement on this.
One of those should be able to sync the phone which is always mounted using net use P: \\192.168.0.200@8080\SyncFolder
All it really needs is some kind of rsync that syncs a folder over Wi-Fi. Especially when my Android phone is always mounted as the P: drive anyway.
My memory is bad.
And I run out of stuff.
Every once in a while it comes to me I need to replenish a supply
item. Maybe it's AAA batteries. Or epoxy. Spray paint. Mouse traps.
Whatever.
Invariably, a few hours later, I forget what it was that I was low on.
Hence, when I'm at the store, I can't remember what it was I had
needed.
Agree the online marketing attempts to lure us in are purposefully
seductive where it's nice to know Google cares about our privacy.
If they want to know I eat burritos and Cheerios, then all the better.
maybe they'll show me some ads for better tasting burritos! :-)
All it really needs is some kind of rsync that syncs a folder over Wi-Fi.
Especially when my Android phone is always mounted as the P: drive anyway.
Since the phone is always mounted as volume P: on your Windows host, why
not use robocopy that comes with Windows? You could use a shorcut to
run it manually with the parameters you choose? Or you could add an
event to Task Scheduler to run periodically. Or Syncback (free or
paid), or FreeFileSync? Those can be ran manually or scheduled, too.
It's a quid pro quo trade of Google convenience for open source privacy.
The cost of that open source privacy is you have to figure it out yourself.
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:22:14 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:
All it really needs is some kind of rsync that syncs a folder over
Wi-Fi.
Especially when my Android phone is always mounted as the P: drive
anyway.
Since the phone is always mounted as volume P: on your Windows host, why
not use robocopy that comes with Windows? You could use a shortcut to
run it manually with the parameters you choose? Or you could add an
event to Task Scheduler to run periodically. Or Syncback (free or
paid), or FreeFileSync? Those can be ran manually or scheduled, too.
Much appreciated the suggestion of something you called "robocopy" on Win.
Given the phone is always mounted as the "P:" drive (P stands for
phone), I agree with you that Windows must have had some sort of syncing commands.
Looking up this robocopy (which I had never heard of before), is this it? C:\Windows\system32\Robocopy.exe
What I'd want to do is automatically sync these two folders once a day. C:\Sync folder\{amazon.txt,costco.txt,homedepot.txt}
P:\Sync Folder\{amazon.txt,costco.txt,homedepot.txt}
All I need is an easy way to sync folders if I can figure out the syntax.
With all that being said, I'd probably choose the "Microsoft Way" method
as it has the best hopes of working out of the box on all Windows PCs.
7. Robocopy GUI
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc160891(v=msdn.10)
My memory is bad.
And I run out of stuff.
Every once in a while it comes to me I need to replenish a supply item.
Maybe it's AAA batteries. Or epoxy. Spray paint. Mouse traps. Whatever.
Invariably, a few hours later, I forget what it was that I was low on.
Hence, when I'm at the store, I can't remember what it was I had needed.
Too late, I only figure it out when at home I need it again. And I'm out. This is mostly for things I am just getting low on, or I just used up.
Like, let's say, you you're getting low on whiteout or on scotch tape.
It's not important enough for its own trip, so you put it on a list.
You forget about it as you only need the list when you're at the store.
At the store, all you have at that time, is your phone.
And you can't remember what it was that you wanted to replenish.
So I keep a plain ASCII text file on my phone that started from Windows. Starting from Windows, somehow, allows me to edit in any Android editor. (Don't ask me why or how that works as I don't understand how it works.)
I keep a folder on the homescreen filled with text-reminder files.
Organized by store type (hardware, grocery, clothing, whatever).
Because my eyes are bad, I make the homescreen shortcut icon obvious.
With a big bold very obvious store icon for each type of store text file. (The whole goal here is efficiency as you won't use it if it's not fast.)
Like that big orange obvious you-can't-miss-it Home Depot icon image.
When I'm at home, and I notice I'm low on ten-penny nails, I whip out the phone, tap the homedepot.txt shortcut icon & speak into the microphone
"Ten penny nails" & then I slide the phone back into my pocket.
Quick. Fast. Easy. Efficient. Otherwise I won't use it.
Then, days or weeks later, I'm at the Home Depot wondering what I need.
I whip out the phone, tap the homescreen HomeDepot icon & it reminds me.
"Ten penny nails"
With my bad eyes, I don't want to be reading the names on the files.
I need some way to differentiate Home Depot from, oh, say, Costco.
I want to see a big obvious orange HomeDepot icon standing out for me.
Here's a neat but super duper simple trick to creating icons.
To make those shortcut icons, I go to "images.google.com" web page.
But I go no further than that one web page (which is the trick).
Examples are Amazon, Target, Costco, A&P, GrandUnion, whatever.
But let's say you want to make an icon for Home Depot, for example.
The only icon web page you need to go to is this one page & stop there. https://www.google.com/search?q=home+depot&tbm=isch
Instead of fighting the Google propensity to make it another fifty clicks before I can actually save an image file which is going to be too big,
on Windows I just press the 'printscreen' button to copy the whole page.
That's it.
I'm done with obtaining the image.
Now all I have to do is crop it and save it in the correct ratio &
format.
First I paste into Irfanview the whole page that the PrtScrn had saved.
Then I crop out any desired image and save as a 1:1 ratio PNG file.
It's not intuitive how to crop a square in Irfanview so I'll tell you
how.
Actually, t's rather tricky as there are many entree point to the crop
GUI.
Here's one way.
While viewing the pasted results in Irfanview, press [Shift+C] to
"Create custom selection" & select the "1:1" side ratio & save it.
This will crop a 1:1 square (always of the wrong size & location)
on your window which you then delicately move around and resize using
a rather deft combination of your left & right mouse buttons.
You can also use the "Alt" key while drawing the to-be-cropped box.
Expect frustration, but you may get the hang of it after a few tries.
Once you have the 1:1 square positioned & sized now you can crop.
Press [Control+Y] and/or [Control+Shift+Y} to crop to your square.
Save as a "PNG" file & copy over to the phone's icon directory.
(For whatever reason, "ICO" files don't work on my Android phone.)
The number of pixels don't really matter, which is why a screenshot
of the google images works even better than does saving an ICO file.
Besides, saving the image often requires visiting web pages.
Each of which has cookie issues and watermark issues and the like.
Just a screenshot of the Google Images results works better for icons.
I can usually pick out a perfectly recognizable icon from this one page. https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=costco&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=target&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=auto+parts&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=dollar+store&tbm=isch
And so on.
On the phone, locate the homedepot.txt file & make a shortcut.
Most Android file managers make shortcuts (eg https://mixplorer.com/). Longpress on the shortcut & set the icon to the one you copied over.
After that, when you're rooting around in the garage toolbox and you
suddenly notice you are getting low on yellow teflon tape (or whatever),
you whip out your phone, tap the big fat orange recognizable homedepot homescreen shortcut icon, and speak into the microphone "teflon tape".
If desired, you can replace the text editor with a checkbox app.
Such as any one of these, but they don't allow a text file per store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ash.fly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ctoad.android.DoBe2 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secuso.privacyfriendlytodolist
If one of those todo checklist apps could save a separate text file,
then they'd be OK but if you use multiple todo apps, you need to learn multiple GUIs where with a text file you only need to learn one GUI.
Nice. Quick. Easy. Simple. Efficient.
Improvements?
One possible improvement is automatic syncronization of the todo files.
To sync the Windows text files with Android & vice versa you can use
any of
the quick peer-to-peer file transfer solutions everyone uses such as
USB (connect the cable for file transfer if you're close to the PC)
Bluetooth (use the Windows fsquirt.exe file transfer if you're not)
WebRTC (use webrtc like https://www.sharedrop.io/ if bridging networks) WebDAV (set up the Android phone over Wi-Fi to mount as a drive letter) sdcard (use the sdcard if all else fails syncing over your local network)
I don't know of any ready-made built-in Windows sync-to-android automated solutions (where you populate a folder with text files & it's always
synced) but they probably exist - which would be an improvement on this.
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:22:14 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:
All it really needs is some kind of rsync that syncs a folder over Wi-Fi. >>> Especially when my Android phone is always mounted as the P: drive anyway. >>Since the phone is always mounted as volume P: on your Windows host, why
not use robocopy that comes with Windows? You could use a shorcut to
run it manually with the parameters you choose? Or you could add an
event to Task Scheduler to run periodically. Or Syncback (free or
paid), or FreeFileSync? Those can be ran manually or scheduled, too.
Much appreciated the suggestion of something you called "robocopy" on Win.
Given the phone is always mounted as the "P:" drive (P stands for
phone), I agree with you that Windows must have had some sort of
syncing commands.
Looking up this robocopy (which I had never heard of before), is this it? C:\Windows\system32\Robocopy.exe
What I'd want to do is automatically sync these two folders once a day. C:\Sync folder\{amazon.txt,costco.txt,homedepot.txt}
P:\Sync Folder\{amazon.txt,costco.txt,homedepot.txt}
All I need is an easy way to sync folders if I can figure out the syntax. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/whats-new-in-windows-7-robocopy
At this moment there are too many "easy robo copy gui's" to choose
from.
I find the simplest way to have a todo list is with a piece of paper and a pen. Of couse I am also person whom likes to have a paper pass to board an airplane.
With all that being said, I'd probably choose the "Microsoft Way" method
as it has the best hopes of working out of the box on all Windows PCs.
Which Microsoft Way is the "right way" to gui robocopy from Microsoft?
Microsoft Sync Toy Gui [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy]
Microsoft Rich Copy Gui [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RichCopy]
Microsoft Robo Copy Gui [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy]
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebook
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebook
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
OneNote is an even better option. It comes with Windows 10, and there's an Android version. One page per store - bigger font for use when shopping, etc,
etc. I've formed the habit of triggering a sync to the cloud manually, after once finding myself in store with an out-of-date list (until I stepped out and
synched via cellular signal).
(I have to say I'm a big fan of OneNote - it's become the "index" to everything
I do.)
In article <%ghpN.6515$t3Rc.3937@fx06.ams1>, =?UTF-8?B? 8J+YjiBNaWdodHkgV2FubmFiZSDinIU=?= <@.> wrote...
...
OneNote is an even better option. It comes with Windows 10, and there's an Android version. One page per store - bigger font for use when shopping, etc,
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebook
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to
remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
etc. I've formed the habit of triggering a sync to the cloud manually, after once finding myself in store with an out-of-date list (until I stepped out and
synched via cellular signal).
(I have to say I'm a big fan of OneNote - it's become the "index" to everything
I do.)
Using <news:%ghpN.6515$t3Rc.3937@fx06.ams1>, Mighty Wannabe wrote:
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebookThere is an Android app made exactly for syncing text files with Windows. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.martinstoeckli.silentnotes
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to
remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
Take your many text note files wherever you are, and share them between
your Android and Windows devices using the FOSS Silent Notes app.
Beside writing of traditional notes, you can also create to-do lists to
keep track of your pending tasks.
Write the notes in an easily operated WYSIWYG editor.
Create To-Do lists to keep an overview of your pending tasks.
Protect selected notes with a user defined password.
Organize and filter the notes with a tagging system.
Quickly find the right note with the full-text search, just by typing a few letters.
Store the notes to an online-storage of your choice (self hosting), this allows to synchronize them between devices and offers an easy backup. Currently supported are the FTP protocol, the WebDav protocol, Dropbox, Google-Drive and One-Drive.
The notes never leave the device unencrypted, they are end-to-end encrypted and can only be read on your devices.
A dark theme is available for more comfortable working in dark environment. Use basic formatting to structure your notes and make them more readable.
Get a note back from the recycle-bin if it was deleted by accident. SilentNotes does not collect user information and requires no unnecessary privileges, thus the name silent notes.
SilentNotes is an open source project, its source code can be verified on GitHub.
SilentNotes is a note taking app which respects your privacy.
SilentNotes doesn't collect personal data, runs free of ads and is an open source (FOSS) software. Write your notes in a comfortable WYSIWYG editor
with basic formatting like headers or lists, and synchronize them
end-to-end encrypted between Android and Windows devices.
Additionally the notes can be password protected with your own password,
and quickly found with a full-text search.
Philip Herlihy wrote on 1/16/2024 8:29 AM:
In article <%ghpN.6515$t3Rc.3937@fx06.ams1>, =?UTF-8?B?
8J+YjiBNaWdodHkgV2FubmFiZSDinIU=?= <@.> wrote...
...
OneNote is an even better option. It comes with Windows 10, and there's an >> Android version. One page per store - bigger font for use when shopping, etc,
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebook
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to
remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
etc. I've formed the habit of triggering a sync to the cloud manually, after
once finding myself in store with an out-of-date list (until I stepped out and
synched via cellular signal).
(I have to say I'm a big fan of OneNote - it's become the "index" to everything
I do.)
Thanks for the info. I am sure many people will find OneNote helpful if
they don't mind uploading their data in their computers and cellphones
to Microsoft's "cloud" database.
I have an innate aversion to allowing Google, Microsoft, or any tech
company to silently sync the content of my computer and cellphone to
their database.
Using <news:%ghpN.6515$t3Rc.3937@fx06.ams1>, Mighty Wannabe wrote:
I use an Android app called "WeNote". It works like a digital notebookThere is an Android app made exactly for syncing text files with Windows. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.martinstoeckli.silentnotes
in my cellphone. I can create many pages of notepaper in that app, and
each notepaper can have a title of my description for that page.
For me, I have created separate pages for the stores that I usually go
to, like "Walmart", "Home Depot", "Dollar Store", "Supermarket", etc to
remind myself what I need from that particular store, so that I won't
have the problem of heading out to the store and forgot what I went
there for while inside the store.
Take your many text note files wherever you are, and share them between
your Android and Windows devices using the FOSS Silent Notes app.
Beside writing of traditional notes, you can also create to-do lists to
keep track of your pending tasks.
Write the notes in an easily operated WYSIWYG editor.
Create To-Do lists to keep an overview of your pending tasks.
Protect selected notes with a user defined password.
Organize and filter the notes with a tagging system.
Quickly find the right note with the full-text search, just by typing a few letters.
Store the notes to an online-storage of your choice (self hosting), this allows to synchronize them between devices and offers an easy backup. Currently supported are the FTP protocol, the WebDav protocol, Dropbox, Google-Drive and One-Drive.
The notes never leave the device unencrypted, they are end-to-end encrypted and can only be read on your devices.
A dark theme is available for more comfortable working in dark environment. Use basic formatting to structure your notes and make them more readable.
Get a note back from the recycle-bin if it was deleted by accident. SilentNotes does not collect user information and requires no unnecessary privileges, thus the name silent notes.
SilentNotes is an open source project, its source code can be verified on GitHub.
SilentNotes is a note taking app which respects your privacy.
SilentNotes doesn't collect personal data, runs free of ads and is an open source (FOSS) software. Write your notes in a comfortable WYSIWYG editor
with basic formatting like headers or lists, and synchronize them
end-to-end encrypted between Android and Windows devices.
Additionally the notes can be password protected with your own password,
and quickly found with a full-text search.
I've downloaded "SilentNotes" from Google Store. I like it. I think this
is a perfect app for making "to-do" lists
Thanks for recommending this app. There are so many apps out there that
I simply cannot spend hours to download and try them out to find a gem.
I think I will use this one from now on.
I've downloaded "SilentNotes" from Google Store. I like it. I think this
is a perfect app for making "to-do" lists
Thanks for recommending this app. There are so many apps out there that
I simply cannot spend hours to download and try them out to find a gem.
I think I will use this one from now on.
Can someone help me figure out what steps I'm doing wrong on Windows?
Duh. I forgot to list all the steps I did. I need help. Sorry about that.
I think I'm almost there with setting up the local server. But not quite.
The Silent Notes app says it handles encryption & online servers.
It also says it syncs with Windows but it doesn't say how to do it.
On 1/16/2024 2:57 PM, Bradley wrote:
Can someone help me figure out what steps I'm doing wrong on Windows?
Duh. I forgot to list all the steps I did. I need help. Sorry about that.
I think I'm almost there with setting up the local server. But not quite.
The Silent Notes app says it handles encryption & online servers.
It also says it syncs with Windows but it doesn't say how to do it.
Here's what I tried, and I know it's long, but it's something someone
else can try too if they want to set up a WebDAV server on Windows at
home.
1. I installed that open source Silent Notes app to test it out on
Windows. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.martinstoeckli.silentnotes
2. I created a few checklists in that Silent Notes app to test it out.
  {amazon,costco,homedepot}
3. I realized I needed a WebDAV server on Windows so I watched this
video.
 How to Setup WebDAV Server On Windows 10 / 11 and Map WebDAV drive
 https://youtu.be/M4DZcS6V-Zs  The video glosses over a few steps,
so I clarify those steps below.
4. Win+R | control.exe  View by: Category | Programs | Turn Windows features on or off  Expand "Internet Information Services"
 Expand "World Wide Web Services"
 Expand "Common HTTP Features"
 Set the checkbox for "WebDAV Publishing"
 Control Panel | Programs | Turn Windows features on or off | Expand "Internet Information Services"
 Expand "World Wide Web Services"
 Expand "Security"
 Set the checkbox for "Basic Authentication"
 OK
5. Start "Windows Administrative Tools" "Internet Information Services
(IIS) Manager"
 C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.lnk
 Win+R | %windir%\system32\inetsrv\InetMgr.exe
6. Navigate to the "Default Web Site"
 IIS | Connections | Sites | Default Web Site
 Under "Default Web Site Home" doubleclick on "WebDav Authoring Rules"
 Under "Actions" make sure "Enable WebDAV" is turned on
 Rightclick in the "WebDAV Authoring Rules" window
 Select "Add Authoring Rule" from the context menu that pops up
 Allow access to: All content
 Allow access to this content to: All users
 Permissions: Read, Source, Write
 OK
7. IIS | Connections | Sites | Default Web Site
 Under "Default Web Site Home" doubleclick on "Authentication"
 Select "Anonymous Authentication" & under "Actions" set it to
"Disabled"
 Select "ASP .NET Impersonation" & under "Actions" set it to "Disabled"
 Select "Basic Authentication" & under "Actions" set it to "Enabled"
 Select "Digest Authentication" & under "Actions" set it to "Disabled"
8. IIS | Connections | Your computer name
 Doubleclick "Server Certificates"
 Rightclick in the windows & select "Create self-signed certificate"
 Specify a friendly name for the certificate: My self-signed certificate
 Select a certificate store for the new certificate: Personal
 OK
9. IIS | Connections | Sites | (Rightclick on "Default Web Site")
 Select "Edit Bindings" from the context menu that pops up
 In the "Site Bindings" form that pops up, click the "Add" button Â
Set Type to "https" (Port 443)
 Under "SSL certificate" select the certificate you had created
 OK | Close
10. Fabricate a test domain by first checking it doesn't exist
  Win+R | cmd | ping myserver.com
  That ping should report that the server couldn't be found.
  Find your local IP address to add into hosts as that domain
  Win+R | cmd | ipconfig | look for "IPv4 Address"
  For example: IPv4 Address... 192.168.0.2
  Edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
  192.168.0.2 myserver.com # my local webdav test server
  Win+R | cmd | ping myserver.com
  That ping should now report that the server was found.
11. Create a subfolder under C:\inetpub\wwwroot named "android"
  Set that subfolder to full access by rightclicking on the subfolder
  and selecting "Properties | Security | Edit } CREATOR OWNER |
  Press the "Add" button & then the "Advanced" button
  Press the "Find Now" button & scroll down the list of users
  I selected "Guest" but I wasn't sure what user to select here.
  MachineName\Guest | OK
12. In the "Permissions for android" form, select "Guest",
  click to "Allow" all permissions & then click "Apply" And then
click "OK" & "OK" to close the folder permission form.
13. I think the instructions missed the "Sharing" step of the folder
  C:\inetpub\wwwroot\android
14. To map a WebDAV drive and to populate it with files as a user,
  rightclick on "My PC" & in the context menu that pops up,   select "Map network drive" and in the "Folder" field   enter \\MYPC\inetpub\wwwroot\android & click "Finish"
  You should now have a new "Z:" drive labeled something like
  "android (\\MYPC\inetpub\wwwroot)"
  You can also map that network drive from the Windows command line.
  net use Y: \\MYPC\inetpub\wwwroot\android
  net use X: \\192.168.0.2\inetpub\wwwroot\android
  net use U: \\192.168.0.2\inetpub\wwwroot\android /USER:guest
  net use W: \\myserver.com\inetpub\wwwroot\android
   Enter the username for 'myserver.com' = guest
   Enter the password for 'myserver.com' = <blank>
15. On Android, start the Silent Notes app & click the "cloud" icon.
  A Silent Notes activity will ask "Set up the online storage"
  to which you click "Continue" & then you select your cloud provider
  out of {FTP,WebDAV,Dropbox,Google Driver,OneDrive,Nextcloud,GMX}.
  I selected "WebDAV" out of that list.
  A form labeled "Online storage credentials" popped up.
  Server directory URL: https://192.168.0.2/inetpub/wwwroot/android
  User name = guest
  Password = <blank>
  [x]Accept unsafe certificates
This is where I'm stuck as I keep trying things but I must have something wrong with the form of the Windows WebDAV server URL in Silent Notes.
  https://192.168.0.2/DavWWWRoot
  https://192.168.0.2/inetpub/wwwroot/android
I need a way to test the Windows WebDAV server to make sure it's alive. (Although the "net use" command worked without error so I think it is.)
I do note that Silent Notes says it only does encryption so I had
to use the "http(s)" instead of "http" but neither works for me yet.
Maybe my self-signed certificate isn't being specified on Windows?
I don't know. I've never done half this stuff. Have you ever done it?
Can someone who wants to set up their own WebDAV server on Windows
with Silent Notes test out the steps I did above - as it should take
you only a few minutes (whereas it took me many hours to get here).
Any help is happily appreciated, although I probably should have made
this a separate post without the home repair folks as their
heads (understandably so) are probably spinning in circles by now.
1. I installed that open source Silent Notes app to test it out on
Windows.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.martinstoeckli.silentnotes
??? Google apps cannot run on Windows.
I don't understand what you are doing.
I have found a YouTube video that might help you with WebDAV:
How to Setup WebDAV Server On Windows 10 / 11 and Map WebDAV drive - Step-by-step guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DZcS6V-Zs
The reason I tested Silent Notes was to share Android files with Windows.
The Silent Notes Android app says it easily shares files with Windows.
The reason I tested Silent Notes was to share Android files with Windows.
The Silent Notes Android app says it easily shares files with Windows.
If you already have an account at someone's WebDAV server then, yeah,
setup is easy. Probably the "easy" part is using SilentNotes with its support of the Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox APIs to be a client
to those existing cloud services. You can add access to those cloud
services as apps on Windows and Android to do the synchronization
between devices, but presumably SilentNotes doesn't need those since it
will use the APIs to those cloud services while it acts as a client.
But I do agree that if you already had a working WebDAV online account,
then it's probably easy to set it up to work with that online server.
The Windows problem (more so than Android) is how to set up the WebDAV
server on Windows and how to test it so that everything is working BEFORE
you start to try to sync Android Silent Notes with Windows Silent Notes.
Maybe this ghacks article has how to do it? https://www.ghacks.net/2021/05/12/silentnotes-is-an-open-source-note-taking-tool-to-do-list-app-that-can-sync-the-content-between-your-windows-10-and-android-devices/
<snip>
At timemark 2:44, I see there is also an option to create a self-signed certificate. You can get free ones at https://letsencrypt.org/;
however, as I recall, you have to setup a web site, import their cert,
and then have them validate your web site is using the cert they issued
to you. Well, you're installing IIS to get the WebDAV service, but
you'd have to make it accessible on your internetwork host for them to validate. You probably also have to register for a domain, or use the
hosts file trick mentioned in the video. The video moves pretty fast
past some points, so get ready to pause the video to see what they're
showing you.
<snip>
Once that is working, only then can you synchronize the SilentNotes to it.
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/05/12/silentnotes-is-an-open-source-note-taking-tool-to-do-list-app-that-can-sync-the-content-between-your-windows-10-and-android-devices/
All I see there is mention of the multiple protocols supported by the SilentNotes client: FTP, WebDAV, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox.
Nothing about setting up an IIS server, and then setup the WebDAV
component.
I've not been following this thread, so this might be irrelevant.
If you want a self-signed certificate for a local machine, and
don't need it to be linked to a CA (eg letsencrypt), then you can
just make one with an openssl command. You get a couple of files
which you have to configure the webserver to use. I've done it
with Apache and nginx, but not IIS.
But it depends if the client program will accept it <===== This.
Charlie wrote on Wed, 17 Jan 2024 06:23:06 -0700 :
Once that is working, only then can you synchronize the SilentNotes to it.
I wonder if the op can set up both the native Windows WebDAV server and client so that the entire testbench can be done without the LAN involved?
One possible improvement is automatic syncronization of the todo files.
I don't know of any ready-made built-in Windows sync-to-android automated solutions (where you populate a folder with text files & it's always
synced) but they probably exist - which would be an improvement on this.
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