setting up my vimwiki sync turned out to be quite the journey.

my main laptop runs windows because of crappy college requirements (and because i don’t want people seeing what i work on when i connect it to a projector). my other machines usually run pop os or debian. on windows, i use wsl2 most of the time.

i tried syncing vimwiki with syncthing, but ios restrictions (no background apps!) and the lack of working port forwarding on wsl2 made it a dead end. i even tried installing syncthing on windows and syncing the folder directly through the wsl2 directory—no luck there either.

after a lot of trial and error, i finally found a solution that works! i set up a cron job on debian wsl2 to copy my vimwiki files to a windows directory every night at 9 pm. from there, they sync to my other devices.

a thrilling weekend.