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Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by boomskats »

Joeboy wrote: post #12

What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

Obsidian Sync does exactly this. Works very well in my experience.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by Joeboy »

boomskats wrote: post #14
Joeboy wrote: post #12

What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

Obsidian Sync does exactly this. Works very well in my experience.

It's paid which is a bit off-putting, but maybe I shouldn't be so cheap.

Edit: It looks like it's backed by git so maybe it could be used for free, with a bit of faffing. Unfortunately I'm cheap and lazy.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by bunsenhoneydew »

I really love obsidian. Sure it has a couple of wrinkles, the mobile app is new still and has a couple more wrinkles, but it scratches so many itches I have around note taking. Currently using it alongside https://get.mem.ai/ and love the pairing for knowledge base and real time notes. I’m working on combining the two to come up with my ideal set up.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by rvieira »

jstx1 wrote: post #10
rvieira wrote: post #9

Obsidian is great. I'm a paying supporter (catalyst and sync). Weirdly I started playing with Emacs + org-mode recently (never been an Emacs user before!) and I'm seriously considering making it my exclusive "second brain". Something about org-mode, org-babel, org-jupyter, org-agenda and org-roam that just clicks with me.

Emacs is so customisable that as soon as I want to customise anything, I get lost searching for solutions online and inevitably give up on using Emacs altogether.

That is true.

I use emacs-mac with spacemacs which works pretty well out of the box. What I try to do, to not go into the "hacking Emacs" rabbit hole, is to really avoid tweaking it unless something is really interfering with my workflow.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by ricardolopes »

Joeboy wrote: post #12

What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

I keep my notes synced on a Dropbox folder. On my Android I use Dropsync to keep all synced changes in the local file system (the official Dropbox app supports that but only for paying users).

Overall this setup Just Works for me.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by MrDresden »

delaaxe wrote: post #11

Please tell me this is compatible with Johnny decimals https://johnnydecimal.com/

User of Obsidian here.

I don't see why that would be problematic. You can name each folder/note what ever you want.

I guess you could also write a plugin for Obsidian that would do this for you.

I don't really see the need for numbering though. Obsidian has a very robust system for tagging and linking together notes. Coupled with proper search, I can always find what I need.

I do store my notes in a hierarchical context centric way (Finances > Loans > Calculations) which also helps.

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