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Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by peterb »

typicalrunt wrote: post #18
manmal wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using iCloud to sync Obsidian, and have consistently run into the problem that iCloud file container access needs full disk permissions that I don't want to give the agent (or Ghostty). Does everybody use Obsidian's paid sync instead or what? Or SyncThing?

I used to use SyncThing, then Dropbox, then iCloud. But then I just caved and paid for Obsidian Sync and it is the best money spent aside from Claude. I don't have to tinker with weird settings anymore or deal with sync issues, it just works.

Same

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by mihaelm »

corysama wrote: post #12

Also new: Obsidian joins the CLI gang https://help.obsidian.md/cli I’ve been having a lot of fun recently using AI CLIs with Obsidian. No plugins necessary because it’s just a directory tree of markdown files.

I love that CLIs are getting a second wind.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by FloatArtifact »

typicalrunt wrote: post #18
manmal wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using iCloud to sync Obsidian, and have consistently run into the problem that iCloud file container access needs full disk permissions that I don't want to give the agent (or Ghostty). Does everybody use Obsidian's paid sync instead or what? Or SyncThing?

I used to use SyncThing, then Dropbox, then iCloud. But then I just caved and paid for Obsidian Sync and it is the best money spent aside from Claude. I don't have to tinker with weird settings anymore or deal with sync issues, it just works.

I can't wonder if that's by design to make it hard for a plugin to have it's own sync mechanism. Definitely not proof of this that I know of, but a thought.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by madmod »

For some reason obsidian sync consitently empties random recently opened notes for me. I think it might be some kind of race condition between icloud sync and obsidian sync. File gets touched before obsidian gets to it so the empty note is seen as a new file. That theory doesn't quite hold up though because the same thing happens to me using the android client. Has anyone here had this problem?

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by dispersed »

This is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history:

> The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by tigereyeTO »

mtucker502 wrote: post #20
deniskim wrote: post #11

Nice to see an official headless option. If anyone is looking to do headless syncing specifically to their own Synology NAS, I created an open-source alternative for that here: https://pypi.org/project/obsidian-synology-sync/

I know this is headless but is there any other reason I should use this over the official Synology drive app?

Synology Drive is a file and folder syncing system.

Obsidian is a note and wiki syncing system.

You should use an obsidian syncing system if you want to sync notes and wikis. You should use a file syncing system if you want to sync files.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by jon-wood »

dispersed wrote: post #26

This is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history: > The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.

You can use this to sync changes in (near) realtime and then either commit them to git, or use some other mechanism to increase retention.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by qwertox »

dispersed wrote: post #26

This is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history: > The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.

It also won't replace Postgres, because that is also a different thing.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Post by dispersed »

qwertox wrote: post #29
dispersed wrote: post #26

This is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history: > The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.

It also won't replace Postgres, because that is also a different thing.

What do you mean? Version history is explicitly a feature of Obsidian Sync: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Version+history
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