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Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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What’s the best way to sync Obsidian without upgrading to their paid tier?

For my work notes, which are not allowed to be stored outside company resources, I have set up a git repo and use a plugin that auto commits.

It does not work well for sharing to a mobile env but works great for desktop.

Re: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

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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.

Yeah we'll add that at some point. It's a bit trickier than it seems because a lot of Obsidian configuration and app functionality is vault-specific. E.g. what theme should be used? What plugins should be available? Does autocomplete for [[links]] or properties do anything? Etc.

maybe you're overthinking it a little. You could make it of a default setup like the one you use for the sandbox, or some curated fast-loading one

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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'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've had good luck with syncthing. But I only sync between laptop and desktop.. the mobile story with syncthing isn't ideal.

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Oh! I worked on this project. If anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them!

It would be nice if one could sync dot files in the vault. For example, the .claude or .pi folder containing skills and whatnot.

Yes, we're looking into that!

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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'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?

github private repo works fine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Hackernews is accessed using http. Why do you need a web browser when curl exists?

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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'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 have been using remotely save and a free bucket from backblaze. It as a s3 compatible api so works using the s3 feature.

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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?

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

I did run with this setup for a few months (I believe like, 5 months already?) and when it works, it's nice, but 90% of the time it has been extremely painful.

Something breaks, one automatically updates and then it breaks the entire database, SCRAM mode, recovering is painful, and all the time I get warnings, spam and logs, it's anything but seamless.

Which is a real pity, because when it works it feels magical to use within my laptop, my phone and my tablet, all self hosted, but the pain won and so I'm searching for new alternatives.

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