Joël de Bruijn

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  • You sure about that? From memory It did work with floccus (though it does it in a weird way).

    Floccus for Android is a local standalone app, usefull but doesnt read / write to Firefox Android bookmarks …

    Yeah maybe my instructions are ment for backups rather than keeping a workflow in sync with all your devices. Sorry for my bad reading skills !

    Appreciated still, I backup with restic but indeed these are usefull for backup.

    Also, syncing your whole profile between Desktop/laptop and your phone won’t work that easily… They behave very differently and do not have the same directory structure/files on your phone.

    This, for me, is the real answer to “Is filebased sync for Firefox possible?”! Because in a pc / smartphone scenario those apps cant work then with each others directories, thanks!



  • Thanks!

    Must admit … I realise now I am tweaking something I got used to, but going back to why and all … because I do use Floccus icw my own NextCloud instance. But mainly for long-term-archival-avalability and for laptop devices, because Floccus doesnt sync Firefox Android. So from mobile its this:

    • Firefox Android add a bookmark
    • Sync Firefox Android with Mozilla
    • Back at laptop, sync with Mozilla.
    • Follow up with Floccus sync on laptop …

    At the moment:

    • Bookmarks: Floccus sort of
    • History: maybe I dont need it if I bookmark more but still usefull …
    • Open Tabs: cant live without it
    • Adresses: Turned on, but not a knock out,
    • Payment: Bitwarden data
    • Add-ons: This is very convenient but not a knock out criteria, could just maintain documentation (a list with sources).
    • Passwords: Bitwarden sync

    So, the focus would be syncing Open Tabs and History …














  • I don’t know.

    • I don’t need formatting but it doesn’t get in the way either. So I am not bothered by it.
    • Also pdf and especially PDF/A standard is widely used for archiving and compliance regulation concerning archival and preservation.
    • If you want text the same tactic goes: just export in bulk to txt instead of pdf

    My main point is: Why would you want a mail specific stack of hosting, storage, indexing and frontends? If it’s all plain text anyway so the regular storage solutions for files come a long way.

    There is an entire industry (which has its own disadvantages) to get communication artefacts out of those systems and put it in document management systems or other forms of file based archival.


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    6 months ago

    I had roughly the same goals ( archive search 2 decades of mail) but approached it completely different: I export every mail to PDF with a strict naming convention.

    • Backend: No mailserver, just storage and backup for files.
    • Search: based on filenames FSearch and Void tools Everything. I could use local indexing on pdf content.
    • Frontend: a pdf viewer.