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 taurusnoises on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:56AM (#28896128)

My main gripe with Obsidian. That, and the fact that it costs almost $100 to have the mobile app sync with the desktop. That's insane to me, and feels vindictive. I'm all for paying for the platform. Seriously. These ventures need bottom - up support. But, syncing is a basic feature that any mobile app should have baked in. Charge for 24-hour support, something that actually requires the time of the team.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by digitalengineer on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:08AM (#28896192)

Just download the app make a vault. Same it in iCloud or google drive. Now use your desktop pc and copy the files over. Done and a accessible vault in your smartphone.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by LVB on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:52AM (#28896882)

Note that iCloud Drive on the Mac is a bit random about when it decides it wants to sync files. I ended up abandoning that setup after too many times of being somewhere and finding my laptop never pushed up the latest version of a file.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by digitalengineer on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:30PM (#28899069)

Thank you for the insights. I have not experienced it yet, but am moving to another cloud solution for my peace of mind ;-)

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by taurusnoises on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:14PM (#28913497)

You can't just save the vault in Good Drive on your phone, because the vault is looking for a folder on your phone to sync to. The Drive option simply isn't there. From what I've seen you have to download another, third party sync app, to do that, and that just sounds clunky af. Obsidian charging $90 a year(!) for sync is just super lame. I can wait til they realize that.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by tomcooks on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:31PM (#28899974)

try vim on your laptop and VPS, and Markor on your phone. sync them up with rsync or syncthing and you have free magic

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by gego on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:49AM (#28896855)

...syncthing

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