Obsidian + obsidian-git extension + github private repository. It just works.
Pretty cool but do you store any sensitive information in there? Do you trust Microsoft?
Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
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#12I use IA Writer, which is all in Markdown. Not sure if it's on Linux, but it works well across iOS and Mac OS. The notes and attached files are just kept in folders on the Mac hard drive (i.e., accessible via Finder.)
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#13I keep notes in markdown in a local folder and sync across machines with git. I tend to use VS Code to edit/read because I like the way its search feature works, but really any text editor would work fine. I sync with a private github repo, but any git remote would be equivalent.
Git history and did tracking is obviously more useful for text-based formats like md than it would be for PDFs, but there's no reason you couldn't include PDFs or other small binary files alongside your notes in the repo.
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#14I use Apple Notes and Obsidian (synced via Nextcloud)
I also use Signal's "Note to self" feature, with autoexpire enabled (I send ephemera to myself thereon - if I haven't used/needed/looked at it in a week, it's not important)
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#15using Apple Notes sync via self hosted mail server. (Apple Notes is doing this via IMAP)
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#16Local Obsidian + Syncthing.
The magic of obsidian is that I rarely have to actually open obsidian. As the notes are in plain markdown, I usually just do my input from vim or vscode.
The magic of Syncthing is that it's (mostly) a set and forget thing.
The setup works on my PC, laptop, mobile and VPS.
Everything is backed up daily from a single point to a S3 backend with Restic. Also a set and forget thing.
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#17Joplin - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ I use it with end to end encryption enabled and Dropbox as the storage backend.
I used Joplin a few years ago but at some point I couldn’t restore synced notes and had some data-loss. This experience still makes me shy away from using it again…. Has it gotten better?
This happened to me as well. I started using it again though, in combination with joplin cloud. Data loss is still a big issue though. I just recently delete a note and couldn't find a way to restore it. Not sure if it would have been possible to do so, but if it's possible, it should definitely be easier.
Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
#18All my notes are in an `sshfs` mount -- it's fast enough for plaintext.
The latency does suck though to be honest.
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#19Trilium (https://github.com/zadam/trilium) , centrally self hosted, nothing to sync.
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#20I email short notes to myself.
As notes are not a collections of facts but interlinkages of ideas I then take time to sit and put them together with a keyboard then save in a directory tree.
I email myself an encrypted .tar.gz of the directory tree at the end of the day.
Software is Zettlr.