So a friend of mine recommended Obsidian ages ago and I looked at it but thought I was happy using Joplin (another text-based note tool) which I still think is a great app. Took a brief look at it and thought it was just too complicated…
Then recently, I went down a youtube rabbit hole watching videos of how people use Obsidian… OMG 🤯
Now I have 2x Vaults, one for work and one personal. Dataview, templater, quickadd, periodic notes have just changed everything. Now I have documents for each person at work with their basic info and then when I make a meeting, I can just tag them which then updates a dataview table that shows what meetings I’ve been in with them.
Tasks allows me to just create a bunch of todos in random notes and then I can create a table to show all my undone tasks.
I mean, why did I wait so long? I’ve been using it for about 10 days now and it’s been such a game changer. Sorry Joplin.
I haven’t, I’ll have to check it out. I have an iPad but need to figure out a good way to sync notes without paying $10/month. (The iPad doesn’t working with Syncthing or google drive :( )
I have a separate folder in my vault called “mobile-sync” and set up Resilio Sync on my NAS + iPhone to sync just that folder. 90% of the time I’m on my phone and want to interact with my vault it’s because I want to jot down thoughts, so I use 1Writer hooked up to the sync folder to write the note, then open Resilio Sync to sync it. Due to the iOS stuff it won’t sync in the background, but the “create note -> sync it” workflow is ok for my needs.
Nice, last night I self-hosted a couchdb server and setup https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
So far it’s working well though I had forgot to set the encryption key on one device which caused it to try and sync the encrypted version so I had a bunch of conflicts to resolve. Once that was sorted though, it’s been working well and I can sync stuff to my iPad now. We’ll see long term how it works.
Have you tried the Mobius Sync app that uses Syncthing on iOS? It seems to have been recently updated so that it can reference folders from other apps (like Obsidian). I just created this workflow a couple days ago, and it seems to be syncing correctly. Because iOS isn’t great about letting third-party apps run indefinitely in the background, I used the built-in Shortcuts app to automatically open Mobius Sync every time that I close out of Obsidian in order to always sync my notes to all my other devices.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/möbius-sync/id1539203216
I did, I couldn’t seem to get it to work. Mobius just didn’t seem to be able to connect to the obsidian app folder. Maybe I’m just doing something wrong but this would be ideal for me because I already had syncthing syncing to my NAS as well. Maybe I’ll revisit it at some point.