I think I actually did the same thing with Vivaldi. Then I got it out and went through the settings and found some things I liked more than I thought I would. I’ve gotten used to the grouped/nested/stacked tabs feature (I forget what they call it). I like that I never have to remember to open a new tab before clicking on a saved bookmark because it will always open in a new tab. I like that when I close the last tab, Vivaldi stays open to a screen with thumbnails of my most used links. For just a few. Oh, and the history screen is what history should be – calendar form, but also easily searchable.

My son turned me on to Syncthing. We looked at using it for a backup to each other’s devices, but the interweb is just too slow for it to realistically work. But for the few folders I want to share between my laptop and phone, it works great. I keep some diaries on my parents’ health and personal things, my wife’s health, my health, projects, and that sort of thing. Nice to know I can add to them or make changes on either device whenever a thought occurs to me.

Good luck!

Merle

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Funny you should mention Vivaldi. I’ve got it installed on every x86-64 machine in the house, and for a while I was pretty much all Vivaldi. But then it fell out of favor and I “forgot” about it. I just fired it back up after a few months of non-use, and allowed the updates to hit.

Thanks for mentioning Syncthing. It looks very interesting.

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I just found StartPage. I think I’ll give that a go for a bit.

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I also use Syncthing to keep some folders synced between my phone and laptop. It has worked flawlessly, with one exception of a few weeks about a year ago when it wouldn’t sync no matter what. And then it did again and has ever since. Pretty much eliminates the need for a cloud service for me, though I occasionally do use DropBox.

And, yes, LibreOffice, which seems to do everything I need in that respect, and for which MS Office would simply be overkill.

Merle

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