I've just deleted five of my ideas

I keep them in IDEAS.md file on iCloud. I have shortcuts on both my phone and laptop to open the file instantly. I don’t need the sync to be instant. I just want to have the latest version when I run these shortcuts.

I added some ideas on my phone yesterday. Today, I opened the file on my laptop, but I didn’t notice it didn’t sync the huge <0.1KB change, so when I saved the file, the changes were overwritten, which means my ideas are now gone.

So a whole day has passed between me entering an idea and me expecting to have it synced, so the iCloud sync had its time to run on all of my devices that are apparently online even when they are in sleep mode. It’s the year of the Lord 2025, I’m paying 10€ per month to Apple for this wonderful experience, and I can’t sync a fucking text file between two devices.

So I installed Dropbox, after a 10-year long hiatus. Maybe they know how to properly sync a text file. They don’t. Opening the file from Dropbox folder doesn’t guarantee it will open the latest version.

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