Thanks for your great app and the Lifetime Plan. I currently try to reduce my subscriptions, and iCloud is a big part here. It’s crazy what I already paid and what I’m going to pay if I want to use iPhones with iCloud the rest of my life.
I moved a lot already to my Synology NAS. And I would like to do the same with Agenda Notes; instead of having it in a US cloud, I would like to have it somehow “local.”
Now, the wish. Could it be possible that Agenda gets more Sync Targets?
For example, local directory, or WebDAV (I know, not perfect), or git/scp/rsync (ok only for nerds).
Thanks for the kind words, and glad you’re enjoying the Lifetime Plan!
We get this request from time to time. The challenge is that everyone wants a different backend — Synology, Nextcloud, WebDAV, etc. — and each one is a significant amount of work to build and maintain for a very small team.
We currently support iCloud and Dropbox for sync. If iCloud isn’t an option, Dropbox might be worth considering — you can set it up in Agenda’s settings.
It would be nice in future to offer a European backend. Just not sure which is best.
We’ll take the request along, but I’d rather spend our time on new features at this point. Thanks for the feedback!
But would it not be simple to build at least an option to let you choose a folder where the data is synced to? Then the user could sync how they want. Nextcloud, Synology Drive, etc., are all available as file providers in iOS. Just a kind of wrapper would be needed then, which translates read/list/write etc. into fs operations.
I understand the idea — use the file provider APIs to let the user pick where data goes. Unfortunately it’s not that simple in practice. Our sync system is not just reading and writing files to a folder; it involves conflict resolution, change tracking, and merging across devices. That’s quite different from a file-based approach.
We do hear the request for more options though, and a European-friendly backend is something we’d like to explore in the future. We’ll keep it on the list.