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For many many year I have been using TexMaker for all my offline LaTeX document creation, compiling and editing needs. A few years back, Overleaf came along with its super ease-of-access approach to online LaTeX document editing and sharing. Overleaf has an edge over other LaTeX software distributions, mainly because of the following reasons: Overleaf is online, so the document can be accessed from anywhere with Internet. Adding collaborators is as easy as adding their email addresses....

Problems I have encountered using Dropbox: Dropbox storage space available for use is really low, and is consumed relatively easily because of the .git folder. Dropbox real time sync has issues with git if multiple computers work on a project simultaneously. Although, it has been rare that I have encountere this. My current solution for this problem is as follows: Move the most space consuming .git folders outside of Dropbox. This way Dropbox won’t be syncing these large folders....

iMac when used with bluetooth Apple keyboards and mouse has a faintly annoying problem of the inability to use the mouse if it doesn’t automatically gets connected to the system. A possible remedy and workaround for this is to use keyboard keys for mouse control. Press F8 (or F7 in the Macbook) key on the keyboard to enable switching the command palettes in the settings window. Use the Tab to scroll up and down in the command palette....

A log of Zotero issues, I have encountered. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zotero freezes, items don’t load and the application doesn’t respond. Reason: Possibly due to adding too many feeds and the syncing issue. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zootmoov didn’t sync recent files. Solution: Select affected files, right click$ \rightarrow$ Move them to directory with Zootmoov

General guidelines You basically have three entities you want to interlink and provide bidirectional access. Personal computer Remote computer Github or Gitlab a/c server A copy of all my ssh keys is stored in ~/Dropbox/ssh-access-keys/ Generate SSH Key Pair SSH public and private keys can be generated by: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 In the prompt for putting in the password, leave it blank and just press “Enter”, if ya don’t want to have a password-protected file....