What??? I love both! The iPad and iPhone app! Super fast, works like a charm and I am always surprised how many feature I can use even on the tiny phone screen! I just installed the projects plug in and was fully prepared to accept it not working on iOS but here we are 🥳 it works like a charm and is super easy to use. I am in love with Obsidian and I use it 95% of the time on iPhone.
I found this note combination feature request but it doesn’t look like any plugin or native solution exists? From reading the thread, possibly you could make your document with all the transclusions then export as markdown which should then pull the transcluded content in. There’s also this short thread but it seemed focused on pulling entire notes in; not sure if that’s what you want or not.
Edit: and this is why I shouldn’t research things on my phone! Obsidian doesn’t have a native markdown exporter, just to PDF… there’s “Obsidian Enhancing Export” plugin, and “Obsidian Markdown Export” plugin. and a paid plugin.
Thank you for your detailed answer. Obsidian Markdown Export makes most of what I need: it created a new note, and transcluded page are copied. So with minimal editing I get what I need. I can merge all the notes of one month in one doc, tidy-up and done. Good opportunity to review note at the same time.
I understand what you mean, but there are still the backlinks from the parent-child relationship. So my index notes don’t lose their usability just because dataview is no longer supported.
I don't see what function or feature would be missing from Obsidian that would make it inappropriate to use. There's even a plugin to export html files.
Wanted to add to this, this method still works like a charm even with a windows pc. Haven’t had any issues with syncing across my iPhone, mac, and windows pc since I started doing this.
Do you do much editing on your Windows machine? I tried using iCloud sync but found that the documents would randomly undo a sentence or two as I typed. Also had problems with Windows sometimes not uploading whole files.
I’m fine with Obsidian on desktop and I love that they have a fully-featured app, but the experience on mobile and iPad with the obsidian app is not the best UI experience. I also find it to be a bit buggy at times.
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IA Writer works very nicely with Obsidian. The styling looks different, YAML is visible, and anything outside markdown won't be rendered, but it reads and writes perfectly (although I rarely find a need for it anymore). The iPad app has come a long way but yeah, it's not perfect yet.
That’s one app I really wanted to try to use but they don’t yet have a trial or monthly subscription option for iOS (supposed to release one). I didn’t want to pay $50 for it just yet.
@nightscout@laroquephoto At $50, the mobile version of iA Writer has become way overpriced, especially if you’re only going to use it on an iPhone. Imo 1Writer is pretty much equally good (I own both) and last I looked it only costs $5. Fwiw, you can also sign into Dropbox with it, which you can’t do with iA Writer.
I’m with you on wanting solid calendar integration. I’ve been looking for a integration with iCal (or iCloud or whatever) but haven’t found anything yet. I would rather trust a reliable calendar option (since syncing, alerts, etc are critical). Mainly I’d love simple sync with my core scheduling calendar to add that info to Obsidian as just sort of meta data of my day.
This is really difficult to break down because it’s (by nature) complicated. but:
A custom python script that reads RSS feeds, picks out keywords, and posts them to a special file with a checkbox. This then monitors the checkboxes so it doesn’t repeat a story (still happens but not as bad as without)
A custom python script that checks a bunch of websites for things like when a new video is uploaded. This uses webscraping and is highly customized to each site.
This one’s pretty neat: I use Lynx to do a text dump of wttr.in THEN i use a custom python script to add the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases to that text file so it displays them. Since wttr.in goes down fairly often due to overuse, it’s also got bypasses built in so it at least shows me the sun/moon info even if the site read fails.
All that runs every hour, though due to intentional design choices it varies the time slightly to avoid being detected for being to regular.
Then, once a day at midnight, it copies my entire vault to a backup directory and puts it into a dated backup folder.
Since the entire thing runs via a single shell script it’s easy to start up when i do a reboot. very fire-and-forget.
meanwhile in Obsidian itself i have several panes set up - for the updates, the weather etc - that “bracket” my main viewing page + my calendar.
If you’re using regex I’m assuming you know of utilities like Regex 101 to check your syntax.
With JS-styled regex the entire statement is enclosed in slashes. /parent:: $/ should have the desired effect here.
I second DataView for these kinds of tasks as the plugin revolves around YAML frontmatter. I have a utility note called “notes with cleanable metadata” that has a bunch of these DataView queries that update in real time.
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