Yeah, syncing text files across devices is a problem that has little to do with obsidian or whichever editor/renderer one uses. As long as one keeps things relatively simple with plugin-related syntax flavours, editors are interchangeable.
Even simpler, just pay for the feature
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own
by 946789987649 on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:12AM
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Yeah agreed - does anyone really care for $4/month?
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own
by mock-possum on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:02AM
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Fun fact: Dropbox doesn’t support emoji in file names ( or at least, didn’t last time I checked. )
Deal breaker for me - adding iconography to file and folder names can be a natural, zesty enterprise.
And here I am still coming to terms with using spaces in filenames.
I'm willing to pass on this one, IStillPascalCaseMyFolders (And camelCaseMyFiles.txt)
Still doesn't. I recently moved my vault to Dropbox and had to rename a bunch of filenames
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own
by WickyNilliams on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:41AM
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Yeah, I have my obsidian vault in Dropbox and synced to my phone and back with Dropsync on android. The obsidian mobile app Just Works™ with this. It was a one time setup. Of course there's no fancy conflict resolution going on, but it's unlikely I'm editing in two places at once so it's not needed.
Even simpler, I have mine in a Dropbox folder. Felt very strange for _this_ to be the straw that broke the camel's back for the author.
Nonetheless, very glad for them that they enjoyed and learned from the experience of building a replacement!