iCloud Sync

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iCloud has multiple sync indicators: drive, folders, and files.

Steps to use (A) macOS and iOS markdown editors for writing, (B) iCloud for syncing, and (C) Scrivener for structuring, text tidying, and compiling.

  1. Create a project in Mac Scrivener

  2. In Mac Scrivener, set up external folder sync, targeting a folder saved in iCloud

  3. Choose plain text, with md as the extension

  4. Disable the option to convert plain-text paragraph spacing

  5. On a Mac, create and edit files in the synced folder using Obsidian and / or Panda

  6. On an iOS device, create and edit files in the synced folder using Panda

  7. No need to initiate a sync between devices as iCloud syncs automatically and quickly

  8. Sync the external folder back to Mac Scrivener for compiling if needed

This has the added benefit of sidestepping Microsoft’s deprecated RTF specification—last updated in 2008; used by Scrivener.

Merx

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