Sync Joplin Clients with Self-Hosted Server

Recap

It's been a minute since my last post, life happens, so here's a continuation of the previous post "Self-Host a Joplin Sync Server in Proxmox". In that post we set up a self-hosted Joplin sync server, here we'll use that server to sync our Joplin clients (be it Mac or Windows desktop, iPad, iPhone, or my favorite Android). We'll need the email and password we set up in the initial Docker Compose file on the server(or another user if you've added one).

Joplin client

(This post uses the MacOS client as an example)

Here are the steps to set up the MacOS Client.

1. Click on Joplin at the top left of the screen
2. Click on settings
3. Click on Synchronization

4. Fill in the highlighted fields with the IP/URL of the sync server and the email and password we set up previously.

   

5. Click Check synchronization configuration to make sure all works

Wrap-up

That's it, pretty simple! If you're still on the fence about Joplin check out this post over on XDA "9 reasons you should self-host Joplin on your Raspberry Pi".

Look forward to more posts coming up in the new year. If you found this post, or any of my other posts helpful, consider buying me a coffee. Til next time fair winds and following seas.