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Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by swah »

tbalci wrote: post #29

I 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.

Yesterday I wanted to try Obsidian once again - pasted a reference screenshot on my daily notes. Could not see the screenshot in the original size. Referred to the forums: you need some custom CSS to zoom on hover.

Once again, back to Apple Notes...

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by byteknight »

Obsidian + Remotely Save plugin Native cloud provider, sick, utilities, resultant, duplicate files, so I like to use remotely save with the OneDrive integration. You can also use S3 or WebDAV. I was playing with shortcuts on iOS and automated sending articles to ChatGPT, summarize, and save the article and summary IN MARKDOWN to obsidian automatically. Pretty cool.

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by Tomte »

umtksa wrote: post #24
r13a wrote: post #16

Local 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

Don't you get constant sync conflicts? I set it up yesterday, and everytime I open Obsidian on iPad or PC (not at the same time) I get conflicts in two or three files (not my Markdown files, but some json files).

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by aramndrt »

Ulysses with Ulysses sync.

I used to use Obsidian with iCloud sync between my Mac and iPhone. However, I found iCloud sync to be too unreliable, and Obsidian Sync was beyond my budget.

After recently exploring alternatives, I have now chosen Ulysses with Ulysses sync (taking advantage of a student discount at 11 USD/6 months). I write all my notes in Markdown and organize them exclusively within folders and subfolders, without using links and tags. This setup suits me perfectly.

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by umtksa »

Tomte wrote: post #33
umtksa wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

obsidian + syncthing on desktop + icloud on mobile

Don't you get constant sync conflicts? I set it up yesterday, and everytime I open Obsidian on iPad or PC (not at the same time) I get conflicts in two or three files (not my Markdown files, but some json files).

I just use markdown files and even some part of it accessible by my wife, still no conflict. Could be an issue about json

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by Tomte »

umtksa wrote: post #37
Tomte wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you get constant sync conflicts? I set it up yesterday, and everytime I open Obsidian on iPad or PC (not at the same time) I get conflicts in two or three files (not my Markdown files, but some json files).

I just use markdown files and even some part of it accessible by my wife, still no conflict. Could be an issue about json

I also use Markdown files. Obsidian's own json config files conflict.

Re: Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

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Post by umtksa »

Tomte wrote: post #38
umtksa wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just use markdown files and even some part of it accessible by my wife, still no conflict. Could be an issue about json

I also use Markdown files. Obsidian's own json config files conflict.

I got it now, but I've never see any conflict
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