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I love the idea, but I'm guessing that this extension stores your edits on the local machine you're using at the time?

I jump from computer to computer and something like this would only really be helpful for me if my edits followed me around. Possible?

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Actually, your edits are synced across all your computers where Signal is installed.

What data store are you using then?

We're currently using Firebase.

Have you considered using Google Cloud Platform?

Our goal for this version was to get data synced and saved as quickly as possible. Having firebase as the data store working via websockets made sense.

Will look into this - might simplify syncing. Thanks for the heads up!

Probably already a thing with Chrome sync?

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