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What I badly miss about it is some kind of "org mode server" to synchronize things between several nodes, e.g. laptop and mobile, in a structure-aware way.

So far I sync via git, which sort of works but is definitely not great on mobile.

Curious why you want a structure aware way?

My current setup (syncing between home and work laptops) is to auto-save files every few second in emacs, and "git pull; git commit -am `date`; git push" every few minutes in a cron. Works like a charm.

edit: I also do "git add * .org; git add * .org_archive" inside the org folder before the commit, in the same cron job.

Structure-aware: if one change sets a TODO item to WIP, and another to DONE, a structure-aware merge algorithm could resolve this conflict, e.g. based on time; plain git needs human attention.

Well, yes, immediate sync should work, all merges would be fast-forward except for a vanishingly rare case of two conflicting simultaneous pushes.

It's not very practical if one of the devices is mobile, so it's not always online, and parallel changes may build up sometimes.

That makes sense. I realize in my use case, even if I have one device offline, e.g., working on a laptop on a flight, in most times I will be able to sync before I switch to another device, so it rarely creates a problem.

Unison it's not new and work flawlessly, all you need is the ability to reach all devices via network...

BTW do not blame org for the mobile crappy OSes we have, they are not designed to serve us but to serve vendor leaving us small crumbs, milking us for commercial purpose.

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