Interesting workflow. I agree the idea of doing the managing/adjusting of metadata later versus at the time of note creation makes it easier to follow the story of whatever you’re reading. I’m also going to try out the hover edit plugin, that looks cool.
Thank you! Now I found, that there is “about” section in settings as well and there is a “check for updates” button (I expected this in help->about). PS: Auto-update setting was on, but my Obsidinan has never auto-updated.
It syncs with Dropbox, Onedrive, S3 and WebDav. It has lots of settings like folders you can ignore, filetypes, etc. A number of experimental fearures that have worked when I tried them. You can set it to manually or automatically sync.
I’ve used it for my main vault using a self-hosted WebDav for over a year and been pleased with its performance. I make sure I keep a regular backup of the vault as well just in case.
I would imagine you could use the Excalidraw plugin as well for making handwritten notes and diagrams, too.
@M3chTech@tenebrisnox I do not get the point. Obsidian already does this when you start your vaults on a cloud drive … what is the difference? what does this plugin do better?
I had trouble for a period with my vaults syncing on icloud. It was really frustrating so I looked at other sync methods. (I think it was actually the amount of plugins I was using.) icloud did start working again with my smaller vaults. Now I keep my main vault synced by WebDav on my NAS with a daily backup by the NAS & my little vaults on icloud. Has been working really well.
Didn’t the OP say they wanted to sync across two different devices (and I assumed they couldn’t simply sunc using a shared storage.)
@tenebrisnox thx for the answer 🙂 … first I also had trouble (icloud) because one has to start creating the vaults at mobiles and then open them in the desktop app … never run into issues till now … cross fingers 🙈
If you use a shared folder on a cloud provider such as iCloud, or if you don’t have an iPhone or iPad, Dropbox, OneNote, etc., you share the folder via this service. All file management, such as when to sync or whether the actual file is on your hard drive or just a link to the file in the cloud, is handled by the cloud software you have installed on your Mac or PC. Using a service like Obsidian Sync or the remote-save plugin, you sync your vault. When you start Obsidian, it downloads all new files and chances from the cloud service and makes a local copy. So you can use remotely-save to encrypt your data in the cloud, for example, but on the local machine it’s a normal file structure. Since iCloud share doesn’t work for me (problems with lost files, and a Linux machine as the only working machine. I switched to remote sync and it works fine most of the time.
It works beautifully. Realtime sync and conflict resolution between all the devices it’s on (My phone, laptop, and desktop).
I only have mine setup to work on the same network, but you could get it to work over the internet, but that’s much more security & proxy work.
If you wanted to do it all in the cloud. An (over provisioned) VPS, domain, and other configuration would still cost you less than what Obsidian wants for their live sync.
You can read this article. lemmy.ml/post/4161707. Syncthing is free, open source, simple to set up, and much faster than a repository based solution. The article explains why and how to set it up.
I do not think that sync or syncthing will be fast enough. And if you jump here and there, you can get versions conflicts. Either use different notes and later merge or purchase a BT keyboard to your tablet and use it for typing.
Using a laptop and a tablet in a class sounds a bit overengeneering.
I use Dropbox to sync between my tablet, phone, and laptop. Dropbox let’s you use three devices for free so I don’t pay anything for this solution and everything is backed up to Dropbox. My phone and tablet are both android devices so I use dropsync to actually do the syncing with Dropbox so that they can be accessed via Obsidian.
Their basic (free) plan only allows you to be signed in to 3 devices at a time. So, for example, if I were signed in on my home computer, work computer, and phone (via the Dropbox app), I wouldn’t be able to sign in on my tablet (via the app). I specify the app because I think you could still sign in via the browser and download files, but you wouldn’t be able to automatically sync files to the tablet.
The Dropbox docs say the basic account only gets 2GB, but when I look at my account it’s showing 3.2GB with 65% so I’m not sure what the actual number is. They kind of bury info about the free tier but you can visit the link below.
I use git to synchronise and versionise my notes across my desktop pc and laptop. If I need access to the notes away from those two I simply access my git repository I self-hosted via gitea. Sure it has not the linking features of obsidian, but I still can read and edit the markdown files :)
My use case by the way is world building for a literature project and running Pathfinder Role-playing games.
I do the same thing, using a home-grown Git sync solution to keep my vault synced between my desktop, laptop, and Android phone. Free, and easy to setup on the computers, needed some additional SW on the Android side to get the sync to work.
You could use Syncthing. If your NAT router supports UPnP, which most do, you don’t need to worry about the firewall. If for some reason it doesn’t just work you can forward 22000 tcp/udp. It’s device to device and doesn’t depend on IP addresses.
Those addresses can change arbitrarily often. Depending on what it is that you are actually trying to achieve with measures like this, you could do something that doesn’t involve shoehorning an infrastructure detail into a security policy.
You might be able to simply ask DNS for the current IP addresses. If done regularly, you basically give control over your security perimeter to anyone in a position to influence nameserver responses, which might or might not be something you want.
I have a work environment, which has a symlink to my private notes. Then I use it for some other stuff too with separate, tinier vaults, but I found that unless it’s accessible in my primary vault, it will be ignored and forgotten.
But it does get annoying when is search I find both Linux notes, interview notes, and D&D notes.
I use both Obsidian and Anytype right now. I find Anytype better for things like journal, networking, notes on the fly, habit and idea tracking, reading list, literature notes and so on.
I use obsidian as knowledge base for IT stuff and university notes. I also have a kanban because to keep track of what i learned and where to go next.
I also have another vault that i use for D&D, since i’m usually the DM i use Obsidian to world building, design campaigns, keep track of new ideas or requests from my player and what other players do.
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