I have used todo.txt for, shit, over a decade now. Jesus. Anyway, I just sync files with whatever - in oelden days rsync, nowadays SyncThing. But I’ve occasionally speculated about syncing with VTODO instead.

Whenever I start to think through it, I eventually come to the same conclusion: it seems out of place, and more fussy than just copying a file via SyncThing or even just WebDAV put-ting a file. I guess the value would be conflict resolution?

If I have one criticism of SyncThing, it’s that there’s absolutely no facility for conflict resolution, even after all these years, there’s no way to configure a client to say, “if you get a conflict on a .txt file, try running ‘automerge’. If it exits with an error, leave it a conflict. If it exits with success, sync it resolved.” There are merge tools for a variety of file types, from txt to ODF to json. It’d be an almost trivial feature to add, and it’s frustrating that it’s still missing.