I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I've been using and following Obsidian's development since 2020 and I really appreciate the way your company supports the open source community!
Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
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Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#62(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…
I'm a brand new user and thought all this time that Obsidian Sync was 100% cloud-only, so I spent a bunch of time trying to spin up a custom sync solution. This comment inspired me to look more carefully at it, and now I'm a paid user!
I only wish that https://obsidian.md/sync made it more obvious that you can sync a local vault to the cloud. Emphasis on "You still own your data, no vendor lock-in" is a huge sell for users like me who are typically forced to choose between seamlessness vs. owning our data. I'm delighted to learn that Obsidian offers both.
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#63What I've long been looking for is a sync service that handles syncing these directories of markdown, but then provides value added HTTP APIs on top of them.
I can sync my markdown files from place to place with ease, but what I really want is the ability to POST myserver.com/newpage and have it artificially inject a new Markdown file at the path I request.
This could be system agnostic, Obsidian, Logseq, and tons of other local markdown knowledge bases could benefit from this.
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. A beautiful example to set, thanks.
> Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. And yet they haven't open sourced the app. That would be truly humane and long-term. As it is, it's just another proprietary app that, if it dies, can't be continued by the community. I don't think monetary issues should be a concern with open sourcing the app - companies like Bit…
If it dies I’ll still have all of my content in easily portable markdown though.
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. A beautiful example to set, thanks.
> Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. And yet they haven't open sourced the app. That would be truly humane and long-term. As it is, it's just another proprietary app that, if it dies, can't be continued by the community. I don't think monetary issues should be a concern with open sourcing the app - companies like Bit…
Under capitalism, it's reasonable to charge for products and services.
The jury is still out on "companies like Bitwarden, Gitlab, and New Vector". Kudos to them for pioneering novel business models.
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#66(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…
While you’re here, a killer feature for me would be the ability to privately host obsidian sites (similar to publish). Even if it required subscribing to publish to download a tarball of the site (that isn’t public), it could still be worth it. My use case is sharing obsidian notes with non-users (eg coworkers) in a private way.
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#67(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…
While you’re here, a killer feature for me would be the ability to privately host obsidian sites (similar to publish). Even if it required subscribing to publish to download a tarball of the site (that isn’t public), it could still be worth it. My use case is sharing obsidian notes with non-users (eg coworkers) in a private way.
There are a few options for this already. A good one just came out a few days ago called Quartz: https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
While you’re here, a killer feature for me would be the ability to privately host obsidian sites (similar to publish). Even if it required subscribing to publish to download a tarball of the site (that isn’t public), it could still be worth it. My use case is sharing obsidian notes with non-users (eg coworkers) in a private way.
There are a few options for this already. A good one just came out a few days ago called Quartz: https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz
I tried a few a while back. What I really want is as close to 1-1 to obsidian UI as possible. I found with some of the plugins that it could be hit/miss on working correctly. If I were doing only markdown notes, then wouldn’t need obsidian ;)
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#69(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…
Please consider regional prices. US$8 monthly is high for in-develop countries
Re: Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
#70(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…
Please consider regional prices. US$8 monthly is high for in-develop countries
This is very hard for us to do because we want to remain a small team — it will introduce a lot of complexity for payments/localization