Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by shakezula on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:43AM (#33191682)

Uh, this can’t be true cause I have my Obsidian mobile vault set to my iCloud and use that for syncing and backup and it works pretty much perfectly.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by fnoof on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:26AM (#33192332)

It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by nvrspyx on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:38AM (#33192481)

I think that's a limitation of the Files API. In the least, I've yet to come across an app that allows syncing with third-party storage apps through Files. I've only seen one-way saving or using the file picker to retrieve a file.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by poglet on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:03AM (#33200137)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassium-keepass-passwords/i...

In the app description:

"KeePassium can work both offline and with your favorite cloud provider.

There is no setup: pick your database through the familiar Files interface — and that's it. By integrating with the Files app, KeePassium supports almost all storage providers, including..."

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by nvrspyx on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:00AM (#33234436)

Interesting. I don't have a chance to mess with the app, but I wonder if it works because it's syncing individual kdbx files that the user gives access to one at a time rather than a whole directory (including subdirectories). Logseq and Obsidian, for example, would require syncing an entire directory along with subdirectories. My assumption is that they work with iCloud because they're given their own app-specific folder to do as they wish.

If that is the limitation, I wonder if they could get around that by using some type of bundle or archive. Regardless, thanks for the additional information.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by LordDragonfang on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:29PM (#33193246)

I can't vouch for it because I don't have any iOS devices new enough to support it, but supposedly you can also set it up to sync via git:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by nvrspyx on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:40PM (#33193413)

One thing to note is that this requires manually pulling and pushing in Working Copy as well as paying to unlock pro features ($20 one-time payment) to push to a remote repository.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by lambdas on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:00PM (#33193687)

You can just save to a folder on your iOS device and push/pull changes with the app “working copy”, which is a full gift client. It costs a pretty penny though.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by bostonvaulter2 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:52PM (#33194933)

This is due to an iOS limitation. On android you can pretty much use whatever syncing method you like (such as Syncthing)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by kzisme on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:13PM (#33195210)

This is one of my main gripes with iOS. Even with folder/app/device specific folders it's a massive headache.

As you mentioned Syncthing works flawlessly as well as other methods on Android.

[ Parent | on HN ]