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I do want to recommend a service for this purpose: [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/). This is a peer-to-peer file sync service, which means it has minimal reliance on cloud infrastructure, and your data never has to be stored on computers that are not yours.
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Also, from my experience, all cloud storage services I've used frequently run into stability issues when I try to sync tons of small files at once (e.g., a Git repo), but Syncthing is never unstable no matter how I abuse it.
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Every type of data needed by Obsidian, including the notes themselves, settings, plugins, and GUI customization, are stored locally (even better, in plain text).
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Once you use a local file sync service to sync the vault folder of Obsidian, it works like the cloud in that everything is always in-sync, but does not have any of the downsides of the cloud.
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### Reference Management: Zotero
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[Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/) is a reference management software that can be used in a variety of scenarios. For me, I largely use it to manage academic papers I need to read.
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Zotero has a built-in cloud sync functionality but their price for storage upgrades is quite high. One thing you might not know is, Zotero stores metadata and attachments in the same folder. You can use Syncthing to sync that folder, and completely ignore the official cloud sync functionality.
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Overleaf also provides two types of Git integration for you to sync your local changes with Overleaf projects: sync with a GitHub repo, or directly as a remote git repo. It's totally viable to have a mixed setup, where you primarily use local editors and most of your collaborators use Overleaf.
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Similar to Zotero, Calibre stores all the books and metadata of a library in a local folder, so there is nothing stopping you from syncing the folder across multiple computers. Although this is something explicitly suggested against by the software (a line when you select the location for a library: "Note that putting the calibre library on a Networked drive is not safe"), from my experience, as long as you don't try to open and modify the same library on two synced computers simultaneously, you won't be running into any issues.
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