Honesty I think Obsidian as a product. They have done a pretty good job of keeping my data open and available in the Obsidian Vault.
I pay them for Sync, so I consider it a service for them to maintain and upgrade the software. I would prefer the client be open source but it would hurt their ability to stay afloat and profitable to pay their employees.
If they go under or start an “enshittification” I can just take my JSON and markdown and make my own client or use one of the hundreds of other markdown clients to get my information.
Oh Omnivore for sure!!! It’s a reader app so you send it there. Read, highlight and it sends the highlights to Obsidian. It can also handle newsletters and RSS feeds. Did I mention it’s free?
That actually looks very promising so I set up my account, linked it to my Obsidian vault with the API key and everything but when I try to fetch articles, nothing happens. It says it fetched them successfully, but I have no idea where they are. All the settings for the Omni plugin are default. I’m still very new to Obsidian, so I’m probably overlooking something, however I could not find my problem addressed anywhere yet. Got any idea how to set it up correctly or what I might’ve overlooked?
To me the only reason for a second vault is for sharing or collaborating with others. Obsidian really doesn’t care how many notes you have in your vault so maintaining separate vaults just adds additional steps in getting to your info. (Obsidian doesn’t care about directories either for that matter.)
Could you elaborate? I only just started using dataview to list meetings I’ve had with people, under a page for that person directly. It’s finicky though (probably an issue with me) and wonder if this will make it easier.
Sure, I do something similar. I have a note for a person and I have a note for a recurring meeting. In a recurring meeting I have a Dataview field called Host.
<span style="color:#323232;">#Meeting
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This is my meeting note
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Host:: [[John Doe]]
</span>
In a Person note, I have a section for meetings the person hosts. I use Dataview to search for the Host field and see of it matches the current Person note.
<span style="color:#323232;">#Person
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This is John Doe's note.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Meetings
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">dataview
</span><span style="color:#323232;">table without ID file.link AS "Meeting"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">from #Meeting
</span><span style="color:#323232;">where contains(Host, this.file.link)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
The new Properties feature sounds like it’ll be what Dataview fields are. Except now it’ll be in a native interface where I can easily change the information about the note.
You can also do this with any theme if you setup a CSS Snippet:
// This is the one that works for me
.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-scroller {
font-family: monospace;
}
// You may also want to do this one
.markdown-source-view {
font-family: monospace;
}
Then reading view will use whatever font you've configured in the settings.
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 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
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.
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