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One Watcher for All Your Projects

Most file sync tools work per-directory. You start a watcher, it watches one folder. If you have six projects, that's six watchers to manage, six terminal tabs, six things to remember to start.

slop watch --global changes that.

How It Works

You create a config file at ~/.slop/global.yaml:

projects:
  - tenant: acme
    project: docs
    sources:
      - path: ~/Projects/acme/docs
        patterns: ["**/*.md"]

  - tenant: personal
    project: notes
    sources:
      - path: ~/Notes
        patterns: ["**/*.md"]

Then run:

slop watch --global

One process. Multiple tenants. Multiple directories. Every markdown file change syncs to the right place automatically.

Multi-Tenant from Day One

SlopDrop supports multiple tenants per user. Your work account, your personal projects, your side gig. The global watcher respects tenant boundaries: each source maps to a specific tenant and project. Credentials are resolved per-tenant, so your work files never accidentally end up in your personal space.

What Makes It Reliable

File watchers are notoriously flaky. Ours handles the edge cases:

• Log rotation with 7-day retention so the logs don't eat your disk
• Lock files prevent duplicate watchers from starting
• Offline queue buffers changes when the API is unreachable and retries
• Batch uploads group rapid file changes into single API calls to avoid rate limits

The goal is "start it once, forget about it." If you have to think about the watcher, we failed.