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		sudhirkhanger on June 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Ma... Dropbox is a dumb solution to note syncing. It works for me for now but I miss not having to sort conflicts manually.

bosie on June 28, 2020 [–]

Why do you have conflicts?

sudhirkhanger on June 30, 2020 | [–]

If you modify a file from both ends then a program may not know how to merge the changes.

bosie on July 1, 2020 | | [–]

How is this specific to dropbox though? Any storage backend will have those issues?

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