Do Notes sync?

[Simdude]

This is probably a really basic question on the Notes feature in Bbedit, but do they sync between devices? I started using and took some notes on my desktop. When I went to my laptop, I expected to see the same notes but did not. Perhaps something in my setup?

[Rich Siegel]

There is no intrinsic syncing in BBEdit. You can create a Notebook in a synced location (Dropbox, OneDrive, etc); or you can place BBEdit's support folder in a synced location and the default notebook will sync. Otherwise, no. :-)

R.

[Simdude]

Thanks Rich. Chapter 2 of the awesome manual for others like myself that forgot about where the support folder information is....

[Johnny Ragadoo]

I used a BBEdit notebook file last week for creating copy for a pamphlet formatted with Affinity Publisher. It was a very nice experience.

I used soft wrap with two returns to separate paragraphs. Before copy-and-paste into Affinity text frames I used the Text->Remove Blank Lines command. That let me edit with nice, natural paragraph breaks while letting Affinity see one CR per paragraph break.

Restoring the file to edit mode is done with either a command-Z (undo) or search-and-replace for one newline, replacing with two.

I think this is the first time I've used a notebook for anything other than a quick experiment to see what it does.

Likely, this is how I will create Affinity Publisher documents in the future. AP is cool, but it's a pain to compose in. Which is ok, that's not what it's for.

[Jack Hodgson]

Hi Rich!

I'm unclear on how this would work?

If I create a Notebook in a directory on my iCloud drive. Then I open that Notebook on two different Macs at the same time. If I make an edit to it on one Mac, will it automatically propagate to the opened Notebook on the other Mac?

(I may have tested this scenario before you have a chance to reply.)

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[Johnny Ragadoo]

The term "sync" does not appear in the BBEdit user manual in the context of syncing text files. I believe BBEdit probably doesn't support multiuser simultaneous access to text files.

Mac apps that support document handoff natively support that, though. For instance, you can open an Apple Pages file on multiple systems logged into the same iCloud account.

I don't think BBEdit supports that for text files, and I'm pretty sure Notebooks count as text files.

It would be nice to be shown wrong, though.

[Rich Siegel]

On 5 Jun 2023, at 9:03, Jack Hodgson wrote:

> If I create a Notebook in a directory on my iCloud drive. Then I open that
> Notebook on two different Macs at the same time.

The application won't let you do that; a notebook can be opened only on one computer at a time.

However, changes that you make to the notebook in the shared location will be available to any computer which opens the notebook from that location.

If you want actual syncing, we make a product that does that. :-)

<https://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/>

R.

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