Best way to sync macbook, iPad, and iPhones

My wife and I have iPhones, and an iPad along with a MacBook Pro. What is the best way to link all these Apple products togeather.

You could manually copy from the external drive to the Time Capsule, choose not to overwrite files, and then copy back from the Time Capsule to the external drive, again not choosing to overwrite files. The only way to sync would be via 3rd party software, which I don't know of any that do what you want.

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