I wish I could use Obsidian to edit single markdown files.
If my project has a readme.md I don't want to create an obsidian vault with its configuration files in my project, just to open it.
Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
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Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Obsidian is plain Markdown and JSON files.
There can't be a will from the devs to make it hard to sync.
It's just that unlike git or Dropbox or whatever, that are just generic "syncing" tools, Obsidian Sync has been built to provide the best experience with Obsidian.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#43Also 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.
It's not super useful yet- you can't really view notes in the CLI but you can can trigger features like search.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#44Also 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'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?
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This reply does not address parents question at all.
A key feature of Obsidian is that it stores your notes in an open folder structure on your file system.
A very valid question is whether there are benefits to using a special note sync application rather than a standard file system sync application, and if so, what those benefits are.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#46Also 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.
It's not super useful yet- you can't really view notes in the CLI but you can can trigger features like search.
Notes are stored in Markdown files. Why do you need Obsidian CLI to view notes when `cat` will do?
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#47Oh! I worked on this project. If anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them!
Are there plans to support scoped token permissions (specific folders or even specific notes)? I'd love to try setting up something that automatically updates a specific Obsidian note on a state change or cronjob, but I'd want to avoid giving access to the rest of the vault.
also, thanks for the great product, bought the vip catalyst as a show of support.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#48Oh! I worked on this project. If anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them!
Are there plans to support scoped token permissions (specific folders or even specific notes)? I'd love to try setting up something that automatically updates a specific Obsidian note on a state change or cronjob, but I'd want to avoid giving access to the rest of the vault. also, thanks for the great product, bought the vip catalyst as a show of support.
Thanks for your support! Sync is end-to-end encrypted so the server doesn't know about specific paths in your vault. You would have to set those permissions at the filesystem level, or with the tool you're using.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#49Also 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.
It's not super useful yet- you can't really view notes in the CLI but you can can trigger features like search.
You can view notes with Obsidian CLI. See the "read" commands. But also you can do that with your built-in command line tools.
Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
#50Oh! I worked on this project. If anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them!
No question. Just wanted to drop by and say Obsidian is actually pretty cool. An absolute joy to use, and I only wish I learned about it earlier than I did.