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Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#61

Post by sureglymop » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC

I love Obsidian and I've been taking notes this way for about a year. But somehow I still find myself going back to VSCode with some extensions which add obsidian like behavior very often. I don't quite know why but I think it's a combination of being able to open any file regardless of whether it's a note, the quicker workflow for snippets and the bigger community around VSCode (more extensions).

The good thing though, is that my "note vault" works with either, because it's just a folder containing plaintext files, some notes and some configuration files.

What I would love is if they made it possible to self host obsidian publish.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#62

Post by g3vxy » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

jl6 wrote: post #41

nyx wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've used both. I think the main things that Obsidian does better are its UI (which is pretty good, some annoyances around creating new notes and managing folder structure), and the fact that its notes are one-to-one with actual .md files on disk. In comparison, Joplin keeps its notes in a more opaque format, where the notes database is a bunch of files with garbage filenames and so on... and the UI is, er... f…

The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?

They are just selling their own sync option. Since Obsidian store all the notes as plain markdown files on disk you can just use another sync option like Dropbox or even git.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#63

Post by bentoner » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

Strong recommendation for both Obsidian and Dynalist, the other product of this crazy productive duo. I really appreciate their understanding that users want to be able customize their note-taking/life-organizing system.

Is there a plugin or something that enables list folding in a markdown file? I'm wondering whether it's time to migrate the Dynalist parts of my system to Obsidian and that's the big thing I'd miss.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#64

Post by cja » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

sureglymop wrote: post #61

I love Obsidian and I've been taking notes this way for about a year. But somehow I still find myself going back to VSCode with some extensions which add obsidian like behavior very often. I don't quite know why but I think it's a combination of being able to open any file regardless of whether it's a note, the quicker workflow for snippets and the bigger community around VSCode (more extensions). The good thing thou…

You might like Foam then, which is like Obsidian implemented in VSCode

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#65

Post by crunchbang123 » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

While not as feature rich, I found GitJournal[1] to be a good app that supports markdown + git sync.

[1]: https://gitjournal.io/

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#66

Post by cja » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

g3vxy wrote: post #62

jl6 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?

They are just selling their own sync option. Since Obsidian store all the notes as plain markdown files on disk you can just use another sync option like Dropbox or even git.

Or SyncThing (but download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#67

Post by cja » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

eXpl0it3r wrote: post #44

That went faster than expected, awesome to see! My major issue with the mobile apps is the syncing. On iOS you get to decide between iCloud or Obsidian Sync. On Android you can hack together something with third-party syncing apps and local disk storage. But if you have been using Dropbox or OneDrive for syncing on your PC, you won't be able to (bidirectional) sync your data to your mobile devices (out of the box). O…

I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#68

Post by cja » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #12

So how does this sync exactly? Can I use an iCloud folder, an iOS filesystem provider, or do I need yet another service to have my notes on my desktop as well?

I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#69

Post by cja » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

shabazahmed wrote: post #21

Was waiting for this, will try out git to sybc data between desktop and mobile.

I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#70

Post by genghizkhan » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:47 AM UTC

bentoner wrote: post #63

Strong recommendation for both Obsidian and Dynalist, the other product of this crazy productive duo. I really appreciate their understanding that users want to be able customize their note-taking/life-organizing system. Is there a plugin or something that enables list folding in a markdown file? I'm wondering whether it's time to migrate the Dynalist parts of my system to Obsidian and that's the big thing I'd miss.

Yup. It's called Outliner.