Hi Rael,
Thanks for the question and suggestion.
Inkdrop basically syncs data as soon as you make any change in your database.
If you’d like to immediately get your note synced without waiting for auto-save, press Ctrl-S.
The sync menu is only for when the app paused syncing for reasons like unstable network.
When you find that it is pausing, you can manually resume it by clicking the sync menu or running a command "application:sync-db".
As to the difference between ‘Quick’ and ‘Full’, the ‘Quick’ one performs data sync from the last checkpointer. On the other hand, the ‘Full’ one syncs from scratch, which is provided when the checkpointer is broken for some reason. See the following topic:
I understand that it’s a bit confusing. The full sync is just for trouble-shooting and not for usual cases. I’ll consider changing the menu structure.