Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by Joeboy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:57AM (#28895519)

What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by novirium on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:23AM (#28897110)

Syncthing. Been using this combination for a few months now and seems to work fine between an Android phone and a few Windows + Linux machines.

I had previously been hosting TiddlyWiki from my phone, but offline editing + opportunistic syncing when on WiFi seems to fit a personal wiki better for me.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by mohanmcgeek on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:21AM (#28895654)

I've been using it with termux+git on phone. My shell history has the full path to the obsidian folder and the previous git commands. So I just do up arrows and enter. Not that ugly.

I'll admit it's not as UXy as pressing a sync button

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by Joeboy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:33AM (#28895719)

I think this might have to be the winning answer for me.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by nabusman on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:06AM (#28895573)

I use simplenote for this. It is basic text-based note keeping and free (by the Wordpress folks).

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by ricardolopes on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:04AM (#28895565)

I keep my notes synced on a Dropbox folder. On my Android I use Dropsync to keep all synced changes in the local file system (the official Dropbox app supports that but only for paying users).

Overall this setup Just Works for me.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by nonamechicken on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:22AM (#28896661)

Obsidian in laptop -> OneDrive -> FolderSync in Android works fine as long as periodic sync is ok.

Syncthing may be even easier, but I didn't try it since I am not sure if I can restrict it to LAN only.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by e3bc54b2 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:11AM (#28897040)

Syncthing is the easiest, cheapest, most reliable way I've found.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by boomskats on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:58AM (#28895528)

Obsidian Sync does exactly this. Works very well in my experience.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by Joeboy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:00AM (#28895540)

It's paid which is a bit off-putting, but maybe I shouldn't be so cheap.

Edit: It looks like it's backed by git so maybe it could be used for free, with a bit of faffing. Unfortunately I'm cheap and lazy.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by gala8y on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:26AM (#28895688)

Try Syncthing (Synctrayzor is a nice wrapper on Win, Syncthing-Fork on Android is better than original Syncthing), if you don't want to pay for their Obsidian Sync.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by input_sh on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:18AM (#28895636)

As long as you can sync a folder on your phone (whether with Git or any cloud service), mobile app can open it.

Of course, you may experience some conflicts, but that's why you can pay them not to worry about that. Totally worth the price for me, though I do have a permanent discount ($5/month, as does everyone that signed up before Sep 30th).

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