# Sync your data with a free account > Dabadoro saves every change on your computer first, then sends it over TLS to your free account about a minute after you stop editing. Your other computers receive it when they start or reconnect. It works offline after the first sign-in, and the status bar shows whether your changes are synced. - Page: https://dabadoro.com/docs/sync-and-accounts/ - Applies to: Dabadoro 1.2 - Last updated: 2026-10-27 ## See where your data lives Your computer holds the working copy. Your account holds a synced copy for your other computers. ### Your computer Dabadoro saves every change here first. - Works offline after the first sign-in. - The sign-in key stays in your keychain for a year. ### Your free account Keeps a synced copy of your tasks, habits, coins and history. ### Your other computers Sign in with the same account and the same data appears. The status bar, bottom left of the app - online: Changes are saved and synced. - syncing: Changes are on their way. - offline: Saved on this computer. Syncs when you are back online. - sync error: Click it to see what went wrong. *Saved on your computer first, then synced over TLS to your free account. It is not end-to-end encrypted.* **Syncs with your account** - Tasks, topics and rewards - Habits, with all their groups - Completions, focus time and coins - Settings: theme, sounds, the timer, shortcuts, the schedule and the floating timer's style **Stays on this computer** - The window view - Panel widths - Where you put the floating timer - Your Analytics filters Habits sync with every [habit group](https://dabadoro.com/docs/habit-groups/) and its history. The [privacy policy](https://dabadoro.com/privacy/) lists every service involved. > **Note:** The [web Pomodoro timer](https://dabadoro.com/pomodoro-timer/) is separate. It needs no account and shares nothing with the desktop app. ## Know when it syncs Changes go out and come in on their own. There is no sync button to press. *When Dabadoro sends and receives changes* | When | Dabadoro | | --- | --- | | You edit something | Sends it once you stop editing for 60 seconds, and within 5 minutes while you keep editing. | | You complete an item or spend coins | Sends it after about 3 seconds, so your level and stats catch up. | | You close the app | Sends what is still waiting, then closes. | | The app starts or reconnects | Receives the changes made on your other computers. | | A sync fails | Tries again after 30 seconds, 2 minutes and 10 minutes, then pauses for 5 minutes. | To see another computer's changes sooner, close and reopen Dabadoro on this one. ## See what happens when you go offline or switch computers Your work is never lost by going offline. Two computers settle item by item. *What happens in each case* | If | Then | | --- | --- | | You work offline | Your changes wait on this computer and go out when you reconnect. | | Two computers change the same item | The version that reaches your account last is kept. | | You complete one habit on both for the same day | Your account keeps one completion for that day. | | You complete one task on both | It counts once: the completion that syncs last is kept. | | Both change your coins while offline | The balance from the computer that syncs last is kept. | | You set up a new computer | [Install Dabadoro](https://dabadoro.com/docs/getting-started/) and log in. It waits up to 8 seconds for your data, then opens with it. | | A computer stays away over 53 days | Its next sync downloads your whole account again, so deletions made elsewhere reach it. | ## Fix a sync error A red sync error in the status bar is a button. It opens the details. *Figure: The status bar reads sync error.* *Figure: The Sync problem details dialog: Sync status, Pending items and the last error message, with the Copy problem report and Retry sync buttons. Example data.* - **sync error**: Click it to open the details. - **Copy problem report**: Copies a report you can email us. Your changes stay safe on this computer while the error lasts. Press **Retry sync** to try again now. If it does not clear the error, send the report to [contact@dabadoro.com](mailto:contact@dabadoro.com). After 24 hours of errors while online, Dabadoro returns to the sign-in screen. Your data stays on this computer and syncs once you log in. Time offline never counts. ## Resolve changes that were not synced If the server refuses a change, an amber notice stays in the status bar until you choose. *Figure: The status bar reads online, with an amber 1 not synced button.* *Figure: The Sync section in Settings, System tab: a task the server did not accept, with the Try again and Use the cloud copy buttons. Example data.* *Example data.* 1. **Click 1 not synced** It opens Settings on the System tab, at the Sync section. 2. **Press Try again** Dabadoro sends the change once more. 3. **Or press Use the cloud copy** The version in your account replaces this one. For a change the cloud never had, the app asks **Remove it from this device?** first. ## Stay signed in Sign in once on each computer. After that, Dabadoro opens without asking. *Figure: The Dabadoro sign-in screen: Welcome to Dabadoro! with the Log in and Create account buttons.* *Figure: The Dabadoro sign-in screen while offline: Waiting for connection. You can log in once you are back online. Log in and Create account are greyed out.* *The sign-in screen, online and offline.* Being offline never logs you out. The first sign-in on a computer needs a connection, so **Log in** waits until you are back online. Your sign-in lasts a year and renews while you use the app. Its key lives only in your computer's keychain. Up to 20 computers stay signed in at once; one more sign-in ends the oldest. ## Log out, reset or delete your data Log out and Reset account data are in Settings, on the Account tab. *Figure: The Account tab in Settings: a profile card with Manage account, then Log out and Reset account data under Log out and reset. Example data.* - **Manage account**: Name, email, password and security, in your browser. - **Log out**: Logs out of the app and your browser. - **Reset account data**: Clears tasks, habits and history. *What each action does on this computer and in your account* | Action | What happens | | --- | --- | | **Log out** | Sends what is waiting, then clears this computer. Changes it cannot send stay here, hidden from other accounts, until you log in again. Your account keeps everything. | | **Reset account data** | Deletes your tasks, habits, history, coins, topics, rewards and settings, then clears this computer and reloads. XP and level start again, with the default rewards. | | Delete your account | Done in **Manage account**. Your account and its data are deleted, and your computers are signed out. A Pro or Max plan ends at once. | *Figure: The Log out with unsaved changes? dialog: 2 changes were not saved to the cloud. The buttons are Cancel, Keep them on this device, and Delete them and log out.* *Log out asks first while changes the server refused are on this computer.* > **Watch out:** **Reset account data** cannot be undone, and it needs a connection. ## See also - [Install Dabadoro](https://dabadoro.com/docs/getting-started/): Download, install and sign in. - [Privacy policy](https://dabadoro.com/privacy/): What is stored, where and for how long. - [Troubleshooting](https://dabadoro.com/docs/troubleshooting-faq/): Fixes for install, sync and the floating timer.