I sync my Obsidian vault with my Nextcloid using the app “FolderSync”. In Rocketbook, I can set a folder in my vault (on the nextcloud) as destination for the export. Then it syncs to Obsidian on all my devices.
Check out this handy link courtesy of the Obisidan discord. Syncing between devices can be somewhat cumbersome if you don’t want to pay for Obsidian Sync, but a lot of people (myself included) have success with using FolderSync on android with whatever cloud service you have your notes on.
When I’m on mobile, I’m capturing notes, images, links, and thoughts using the Android App and sync them through with Syncthing to my desktop and office laptop.
I use an iphone and ipad and have shortcuts that paste images of scans into my daily notes and other places. I actually use Scanner Pro app which produces a pretty good image. I use exercise books (A5-ish size) as I found the slighly smaller pages more useful. The ios shortcuts are super-simple to make.
I do have a Rocketbook and used to use it a few years ago when I had my notes stored in Evernote. Rocketbook is a great idea but I never got used to the plastic, textureless feel of the pages.
What I don’t do is any form of OCR on my handwritten notes though.
Not Rocketbook, but somewhat adjacent. When I want to handwrite, I use Nebo because it has remarkably good handwriting recognition and even allows for drawn markdown syntax. Then I just copy/pasta in Obsidian. Nebo is installed on my Galaxy Tab S7+. Not very elegant, but works well enough for when note taking on a laptop is disruptive vs using the S-pen and tablet combo.
@kionite231@nieceandtows I’m in the Apple ecosystem so I’ve been using iCloud for the same reason of the cost. My vault is relatively small and simple though. I’m assuming that once it starts to get larger and more complex I’m going to have to buck up for Sync.
@nieceandtows I’m in the Apple ecosystem so I’ve been using iCloud for the same reason of the cost. My vault is relatively small and simple though. I’m assuming that once it starts to get larger and more complex I’m going to have to buck up for Sync.
@dgreenbhm@nieceandtows@obsidianmd I did not know that. Versioning would have come in handy for me today as my hotdog thumbs deleted some characters from a link in a document today on my phone. Luckily, it was a highlight from Readwise so I deleted the document and reimported. So there’s an example of why the cost of #obsidian_sync is worth it.
I use Remotely Save with my Vault, synced to a local NAS that I connect to via WebDAV (but you can use sources like OneDrive, S3, etc.). Apart from some minor conflicts like deleted folders reappearing, it’s pretty stable.
I had mine backing up to a GitHub repository. I ended up abandoning it and just taking notes in a text editor. Gonna try org mode in vim with a plugin and see if I like that better. Main complaint is that I have 200k commits from obsidian
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 purchased sync. I agree it is a little on the expensive side.
The one thing you can do is just use git and turn on the push and pull. It seems to be very reliable this way. Though you won’t be able to use it on the phone as far as I have been able to figure out.
For varying definitions of "works". It's incredibly frustrating if you're using it across multiple devices. Any time I let the repo get more than a couple days behind, I wind up with nasty merge conflicts and it doesn't handle those. At all. It just sort of breaks.
I pay for sync but also use git. I hate how obsidian works in mobile so I just use GitHub.com’s web interface to take notes on mobile and push to obsidian on save. Obsidian sync then syncs all my devices
I see there’s a variety of options. To add one more option: I use the extension Self-hosted live sync : it’s very nice and easy to handle (though you have to be technically interested to set it up)
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