OmniVault v0.2.2

OmniVault v0.2.2

What's new in 0.2.2

• Update from inside the app. Tap Check for updates, then Update now. On Windows the app downloads the new version, verifies it and restarts on its own. On Android it opens the system installer, where you confirm with one tap (the first time, Android also asks you to allow OmniVault to install updates).
• Fixed: notes not reaching a laptop. When device clocks differed by a few seconds, a laptop could miss most notes and files sent from a phone or tablet. Sync no longer depends on clocks, and anything that was missed arrives after updating.

This is the last version you need to download by hand. From here on, use Update now.

Back up before updating (sidebar, Back up).

Send yourself a note from your phone and find it on your laptop, without
opening a browser tab that takes forty seconds and a gigabyte of memory.

Notes, links, screenshots and tickers, kept in folders you choose. Every
device holds its own complete copy. When two of them are awake on the same
Wi-Fi they find each other and exchange what changed.

What it will not do

There is no server in between. A note written on your phone reaches your
laptop the next time both are open on the same network — not before. Sync
traffic is not encrypted; this is built for a network you control. See the
threat model in the README before using it on shared Wi-Fi.

Installing

Windows — download the zip, extract it, run omnivault.exe. No installer
and no runtime to install. Windows will warn that the app is unrecognised,
because the binary is not code-signed.

Android — download the APK and open it. Android will ask you to allow
installs from your browser or file manager. One APK covers phones and tablets.

Both are unsigned by a paid authority, so both warn. That is the cost of not
paying a certificate authority, not a sign that something is wrong.

Verifying what you downloaded

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of each file.

Known limits

• Windows and Android only. There is no iOS or macOS build.
• Devices sync only while both are open on the same network.
• Deleting a note is immediate and cannot be undone.