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Sync settings

Choose what your account keeps in step on every device where you are signed in.

  • My tools

    Always synced: the tools on your board, their order and size.

  • The windows open on your start page, including what you typed in them.

  • Every note in the notepad – on the notepad page, on your board and in windows.

  • Every list of website shortcuts – on the shortcuts page, on your board and in windows.

  • Every grid in the cover grid maker – on its page, on your board and in windows.

  • Every list of bookmarked organisations in the OIN lookup – on its page, on your board and in windows.

  • Keeps your pipeline and saved recipes on all your devices. Your files are never synced – only the steps and settings.

Turning something off removes it from your account straight away. Your devices keep their own copy.

Notifications

Tools that can tell you about something new while a Synsi tab is open, even when you are in another tab or app. Choose them for this browser.

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  • Says “New message” while a Synsi tab is open – never who wrote it or what.

Your choice is stored in this browser only. Notifications never show personal content such as a message or a number. They work while a Synsi tab is open; closed tabs get none.

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Compare two texts or documents and see what changed

Drop the old and new version, and see changed lines side by side with the exact words highlighted. Export a standard unified diff.

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How to use the Compare Text Files

  1. 1 Drop the older version first, then the newer one. Or paste the second text under More options.
  2. 2 Choose what to ignore: upper/lower case, differences in spaces, blank lines, punctuation.
  3. 3 Read the side-by-side view: red is removed, green is added, and changed words are marked inside a changed line.
  4. 4 Download the differences as a unified diff, if you need one.

Lines first, then words

The comparison uses the same idea as diff: it finds the longest run of lines the two versions share and reports what is left as removed or added. A removed line next to an added line is shown as one changed line, and a second pass compares the two word by word, so a single changed number in a long paragraph is marked rather than the whole paragraph.

What counts as a change

Meaningful changes are often hidden by noise. Ignore upper and lower case, ignore differences in spaces (including a different number of spaces or tabs), ignore blank lines, or ignore punctuation. Windows and Unix line endings are never a difference. Lines are the unit, so text that was re-wrapped differently shows as changed unless you clean the line breaks first.

Output

The side-by-side view shows line numbers of both versions. The download is a unified diff with three lines of context, the format used by version-control tools and patch programs.

Limits

Only plain text is compared. Word, PDF and other formatted documents are not read yet; copy their text into a file first. Very different texts of many thousands of lines are compared approximately, and the studio says so. To compare tables, use compare CSV files.

Frequently asked questions

Can I compare Word or PDF files?

Not yet. Paste or save their text as a .txt file and compare that.

Why is a moved paragraph shown as removed and added?

A line diff does not track moves. The paragraph appears once where it was and once where it is now.

Does a different line ending count as a change?

No. Windows and Unix line endings are treated the same.

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