[Q] Settings sync?

[svdcvt]

General question

Hello!

I use several laptops - one at home and one at the office. I use QON on both, and while it is easy to setup notes syncing (I just use git), it is, I guess, impossible to sync the settings of the app in a simple way. I set up my QON at home (I was WFH a lot lately) in a perfect way: themes, automation scripts, views, plugins... But I just opened my work laptop and I realised that I can't have it all here automatically.

If there is a way to syn the configuration/settings of the app, could you help me? If there isn't such feature -- I think it can be very nice to have :)

Thanks in advance for the given attention.
Best,

• Sofi

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QOwnNotes Debug Information

General Info

Current Date: lun. sept. 22 15:40:08 2025
Version: 25.6.5
Build date: Jun 23 2025
Build number: 1196
Platform: linux (xcb)
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Build architecture: x86_64
Current architecture: x86_64
Release: Launchpad PPA
Qt Version (build): 5.12.8
Qt Version (runtime): 5.12.8
Portable mode: no
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Application database path: /home/sofyadymchenko/.local/share/PBE/QOwnNotes/QOwnNotes.sqlite
Application arguments: QOwnNotes
Qt Debug: no
System Botan: no
Libgit2: no
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Server Info

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appIsValid: no
notesPathExists: empty
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Spellchecking

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Note folder default

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Cloud connection Default

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[pbek]

Hi Sofi!
The settings path is shown in the debug settings. But it has a lot of absolute paths in it, so it might be hard to reuse it on another machine. 🤔
Then there is the portable mode, where everything is stored relative to the application binary. But that might be hard under Linux, because everything has its proper path somewhere. And those paths are not writable most often for the user. 😬 It's mainly used by Windows users.

[svdcvt]

Thank you for such a quick reply!

That's very helpful, I'll look into it then! Maybe I'll find something that can be done simply... I'll share here my experience/conclusion/solution, when I have it. (Most probably not necessarily soon as I'm writing my thesis, hehe).

Btw, thank for the app, I absolutely love it. Nothing yet worked for me so well to take notes (more consistently). Really saved me 💙

[pbek]

Thank you, and great, that it is of help to you. 🙏🏻
It initially started by just the one use-case to quickly open a text file with a generated name to jot something down... Then it got "one or two" more features. 😁
Have fun writing your thesis. 😉