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 exhaze on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:42AM (#28896804)

> but copied to Dropbox every day

This seems unnecessarily complex - have you considered replacing this with rsync + cron job?

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by bambax on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:47AM (#28896839)

"Copied to Dropbox" is a copy cron to a folder that is shared on Dropbox. No API was harmed -- or used -- for any of this[0].

It's also in effect a poor man's backup, because the db is renamed with today's date so each copy doesn't overwrite any other.

[0] Edit: not in fact true. The email part uses Mailgun's API (from when you could use routes with a basic account).

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by phreeza on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:35AM (#28897204)

I think (though you can never be quite sure on HN) that this was a joke referring to initial reactions techies had to Dropbox.

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