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.
@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.
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.
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.
Happy to see r/obsidianMD migrated over, being a single community on Lemmy. I am finding it hard to choose between similar communities hosted on different instances…
It isnt possible to find everything I need on Google. Instead I have to take presentations, textbook chapters, videos and summarize them. I add in my own understanding and where I misunderstood for later.
Not sure if it’s common but I use tags to mark questions (e.g #Q Why does she say that) and todos (e.g #TODO read this next), which distinguishes them from normal text and can be searched for. Links make it easy to organize. Vim key bindings make it pleasant typing. Has latex (mathjax) for math.
I tried out the PARA method, but so far it feels too involved with fiddling in the file system and I’m not really using it anymore. I use the “open file” command palette as my primary form of navigation, backlinks and other internal links secondarily, so folder organization doesn’t actually matter to me. I plan to un-PARA my folders and simplify them as much as possible so I can continue to ignore the file system organization.
Just to make sure I understand, you want your Author notes to have a Dataview table containing all the books they’ve written?
For each Book note, do you have a field (either in YAML or inline Dataview) pointing to the Author note? What I personally do is have an inline field that links to the Author note:
Author:: [[Stephen King]]
Then in the Author note I’ll have this:
table without id link(file.link,title) AS Book, Year FROM “BOOK FOLDER” WHERE contains(Author, this.file.link)
Replace BOOK FOLDER with wherever your books are. Then you can paste this into all your Author notes. Even better, make an Author template so you don’t have to type it each time you make an Author note.
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.
I’m finding sub.rehab to be the best resource for making the switch. If you haven’t submitted the link for this community, please do! Reddit is taking down a lot of the “here’s our community on Lemmy” posts so I’m just directing everyone to sub.rehab so they can find theirs communities for themselves. I think this central resource is the best way to do this.
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