FEAT Local backup of online account data

[VegaDeftwing]

Had a brief time when I couldn't login, so I couldn't access my data. Having the ability to at least have a local backup of my data would make me significantly more comfortable using condution, especially as the program/app is still new.

It would be nice if each of the desktop clients (Mac, Windows, Linux) stored a local copy of the task list somewhere. On Linux with the appimage this is obviously a bit clunky, but I think it's necessary regardless.

Preferably, the file would be saved in a format that is both computer and human readable, maybe just

projectName:task:description:start:end

of course, this is only an example, whatever the separation character it'd likely need to be something that is invalid for input in the actual gui, to make parsing easy.

[trif55]

I was just thinking this as well, also what back end is currently used for online sync? I only ask as I'm surprised a free application pays for the hosting of everyone's tasks centrally, I expected a requirement for google drive or something for sync

[VegaDeftwing]

The issue caused me to move to something else (in my case https://github.com/SolarLune/masterplan, I'll use either git or Syncthing for sync) because I just don't trust that I won't lose my data for exactly what trif is saying. It really sucks though, because I think Condution had some really nice things going on- But I can't even recommend this to friends with this as an outstanding issue.

[Jemoka]

Uhmmm... For your case, does offline mode work for you? We store your tasks in that case in a JSON tree as part of AppData, but then you would loose the functionality of sync if you opt for that option.
Happy to have an option to write to a JSON anyways, which... should? be pretty easy to do. We are working on a major update soon, and so stay tuned for more info on that end.

Let me know if this helps!

[Jemoka]

I was just thinking this as well, also what back end is currently used for online sync? I only ask as I'm surprised a free application pays for the hosting of everyone's tasks centrally, I expected a requirement for google drive or something for sync

Our backend on the deploy binaries are Google's Firebase, which usually works pretty well. We pay for people's databases by having patrons ;) — https://www.patreon.com/condution.

[jcz1]

http://todotxt.org is great format for ToDos.
Anyway, data at Google is not an option for me :-(

[Jemoka]

No worries! Our offline mode ("use on your device") does not touch Google at all, and simply stores data on a JSON in AppData.

[Jemoka]

Backend changes are done to allow this, but #55 will need to happen for this.

[VegaDeftwing]

This is also less relevant if, as per the latest release notes, it is possible to self host. Still, glad to see progress is being made!

[VegaDeftwing]

🎉 Props on getting a 2 year issues resolved. Always feels good to get those off the issue tracker.