As someone mentioned in comments, Syncthing is an amazing tool to sync files locally.
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Love syncthing so much. Also hightly recommend syncthing-fork on android, as you can schedule it to only sync once per hour and save battery.
I sync my journal.txt, ToDo.txt, ebooks, alot of notes. So mostly just light text documents.
Also, it is an easy way for me to share anything between PC-android
The things I keep in my main sync folder are text docs, a todo.txt, a keepass store... basically eveything small.
I also sync my downloads folder, for things like ebooks, audiobooks, etc. Also the Pictures folder, saving memes in one place and being able to see them from anywhere. I wouldn't sync the entire android storage, that would be useless to any linux machine.
I just sync a Backup folder using Syncthing, that way I know that the stuff I care about has a copy on my systems. The pictures are stored in the cloud using Google Photos.
I sync backups, books, and DCIM, though the last is send only. I'm playing with the idea of syncing the better part of the user directory though...
A self hosted Nextcloud for contacts, calendar and photos, but Syncthing work fine for files as well.
I used it to sync Pictures when not using a cloud with auto photo upload. And a documents folder with stuff I need synced between devices. And a random folder for some things I wanted on my phone vice versa.
I sync my music folder, my documents, my password database, and my photos. Just those 4 folders.
I have two folders in sync, the Linux one in ~/sync and the Android one in /storage/emulated/0/sync. There I keep a bin folder with a few executables, the code folder with a subfolder for each language, the config folder to save the software configuration, a text folder, the dotfiles, the keepass file. The only things I actually use on Android are the text folder and the keepass file so I'll probably change it to sync only those. The applications abuse the XDG_CONFIG_HOME folder to save things that shouldn't go there, so that folder takes more space than I would like.
KaiOS, but I sync my todo list and music.