Aim

Be able to pick up any of ≥2 Macs and have all my files and application settings synced.

Implementation

Files I might need to access on my phone

Nextcloud (~/Nextcloud)

Files I only need to access on the Macs

Syncthing (~/Syncthing and ~/Downloads)

Firefox

• Bookmarks, history: Firefox Sync
• Configuration: user.js somewhere in ~/Syncthing, symlinked to Firefox profile root directory

Reddit Enhancement Suite

• Dropbox backup/restore

OmniFocus

• Working database: Omni Sync
• Archive: TBC (considering keeping Archive.ofocus-archive in ~/Syncthing and symlinking it into ~/Library/Containers/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus3/Data/Library/Application Support/OmniFocus/Archive.ofocus-archive. Is this a bad idea?)

Zotero¹

• Zotero data directory is in ~/Syncthing²

ForkLift

• Preferences: com.binarynights.ForkLift-3.plist in ~/Syncthing, symlinked to ~/Library/Preferences/
• Favorites: manually copy Favorites.json in ~/Syncthing to/from ~/Library/Application Support/ForkLift/Favorites/³

Alfred

• Alfred.alfredpreferences somewhere in ~/Syncthing; point Alfred to it

Mail

• They’re all IMAP

Obsidian

• Obsidian Sync

1Password

• It’s cloud-first

Messages, Apple Notes, Contacts, Calendar etc.

• iCloud

Visual Studio Code

• Settings Sync

Neovim config

• Clone my fork of kickstart.nvim on each machine