Sync notes across devices

How to turn on sync

Open Settings → Account & sync and sign in with your email. There is no password: FixNote sends you a six-digit code. After you sign in, it shows the 12 words of your recovery phrase and asks for a few of them back to make sure you wrote them down. Then turn on Pro: the trial starts in Settings → Billing.

On your second device, sign in with the same email. If the first device is at hand, choose Confirm on another device, check that the code matches on both screens and press Allow. Otherwise, type the phrase. The article on end-to-end encrypted notes explains where the keys come from and what to do if you lose the phrase.

The same section shows the state: “Synced” with a time, or “Waiting to upload” with a count of changes. Sync now starts an exchange by hand, though normally it runs on its own.

When it helps

You write on a Windows PC at work, open your Mac in the evening, and the notes, folders and images are already there. In the shop you open app.fixnote.space on your phone and check off the shopping list, and at home the list is already up to date.

Sometimes a note gets edited on a laptop with no connection and on another computer at the same time. FixNote then combines the edits and keeps the disputed lines as a second version. The note shows a banner, “This note was changed on two devices”, and Compare opens both versions with a choice: Keep current, Take the other, Combine or Keep both. Two daily notes for the same date from different devices merge into one without asking.

When another tool fits better

If you want apps from the App Store and Google Play, look at Obsidian: it has iOS and Android apps, and Obsidian Sync is end-to-end encrypted as well. See the comparison with Obsidian. If you only ever use one computer, you don’t need sync at all: Free keeps everything on the device with no time limit, as described in working offline.