Obsidian with Obsidian Sync, because I want reliable sync between work devices and my personal iPhone. I don't use a lot of plugins, nor spend a lot of time perusing plugin options. The one plugin that is crucial to my Obisidian workflow is Omnisearch.
Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
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#22Local 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.
Same setup for me. Obsidian+Syncthing+Restic (with B2). Works great
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#23Joplin - 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?
Data loss hasn't happened yet but this makes me concerned! Thanks for the tip! I'll look into alternatives myself now... :-)
Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
#24Local 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.
obsidian + syncthing on desktop + icloud on mobile
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#25I quite like NextCloud. It's a general purpose file hosting software, so you can dump anything in there. On Desktop I use VS code to write markdown, and on mobile I can edit and preview md files on the fly with the Nextcloud app. And then there's also the dedicated Nextcloud Notes app.
I'm using a Hetzner StorageShare, but you can also host it yourself, it's open source.
Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
#26I quite like NextCloud. It's a general purpose file hosting software, so you can dump anything in there. On Desktop I use VS code to write markdown, and on mobile I can edit and preview md files on the fly with the Nextcloud app. And then there's also the dedicated Nextcloud Notes app. I'm using a Hetzner StorageShare, but you can also host it yourself, it's open source.
I used to use QOwnNotes (iirc) with NC on my desktop - and CloudNote (again, iirc) on my phone
But they would constantly complain about not being able to sync because a file was open :|
Now I just use NC to do the sync behind the scenes with Obsidian (or emacs, or any other editor of choice)
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#27There are good Notes App (with syncing options): - Standard Notes (OSS, E2E encryption, Allows Sync) - AnyType (OSS, E2E encryption, P2P Syncing, Have option to host a node yourself) --- If you want to separate Notes App and Syncing, then you could try following combination: - Obsidian/LogSeq with SyncThing - Obsidian/LogSeq with Git Sync - dendron vscode with Git Sync
Has anyone managed to get LogSeq to sync across Apple devices?
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#28Side note: This is an extremely well written question. Thanks for covering all the bases and organizing it clearly and logically.
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#29I would vote for local Obsidian and sync over Git.
This works across my work laptop, personal laptop, and my desktop.
Obsidian covers: Markdown, note printing, OS agnostic, and PDF storage.
You can go for sync + publish if you'd like to sync across devices without any additional software. I chose to use Git which works without any issues.
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#30Local 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.
This means that you and commenters below are all Android users?