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Introduction to Obsidian

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Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by vsakos »

bryanhogan wrote: post #62
torben-friis wrote: post #27

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I know it's probably no help on iOS, but for people on android or no mobile requirement, just push and pull to a git repo. You can probably even set up a cron or something to sync regularly.

What setup are you using to push and pull on Android?

GitSync works for me both on Android and iOS. I'm not using it that frequently tho, and you have make it a habit to open GitSync first, sync the changes (pull) and then open Obsidian. Also, after changing the notes you should again open GitSync and do a sync (commit + push).

https://gitsync.viscouspotenti.al/

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by vsakos »

bryanhogan wrote: post #43
echelon wrote: post #9

Three asks for Obsidian to make it my #1 tool (and I mean #1 tool): - First-class multi-vault support. It's difficult to keep personal / business / team separate. I want to keep shared notes for my team, but it's really hard. - First-class git support. The git plugin is dangerous and will overwrite changes from other devices. The mobile git plugin (which requires hacks to even use) is deadly bad with blowing away you…

I would also love better Git support, especially syncing content from my Android phone to a GitHub repository, so faar it never worked well, I tried a few solutions here but wasn't satisfied with any of them.

GitSync works fine, you can find my previous comment about it (I don't want to spam the whole thread over and over with the same message)

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by al_borland »

severine wrote: post #136

In the last paragraph, OP mentions using Logseq "for short daily notes/journaling", which suggests both Obsidian and Logseq fall short in some ways. As I'm currently contemplating using one of these tools, I'd love if you elaborated on that. Great article, thanks.

I use Obsidian for daily notes. I’m not sure why someone who primarily uses Obsidian would reach for another app just for daily notes.

I was able to specify the folder for my daily notes and the format for their naming. I also have a template setup for them. There is a button in the sidebar that opens the current days note and creates it if it doesn’t already exist. I believe this was all out of the box. I then download a plugin that gives me a calendar, so I can visually see which days I have a note, as well as pre-make a future note.

I use daily notes at work to track what I’m working on any given day. If I know I need to do something on a certain day that isn’t a meeting, I use the calendar to generate that future note and write down whatever I’ll need when the day comes. My daily note template is pretty basic, it has a todo section (where I stick to the Ivy Lee method[0]) and a section for notes that are related to the day and don’t deserve their own file (like meetings and one-off support issues).

For a while, when I had to track everything, I wrote a little something to let me easily append text to my daily note. I ended up writing this I HammerSpoon (Lua), bash, and Apple Shortcuts. I used all 3 at various points in time. It made it really easy to append to my daily notes with a time stamped note from wherever I was without breaking flow. I could select any given day on the calendar and see how I spent that day. It was nice to have, but I also like the freedom of not having to do that anymore.

I haven’t used Logseq, but that is mostly because when I looked at trying it a year or so ago, most of what I saw online were people saying it was buggy, and I wasn’t sure what it would offer than Obsidian wasn’t already providing me. That said, there is no reason not to give them both a try and see what you like best.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by hadik »

kepano wrote: post #138
hadik wrote: post #127

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I have my vault saved in iCloud Drive and solely access it from a single device. We all know about iCloud Drive being known for being somewhat unreliable and sometimes causing sync issues, but I don't really see this type of bug being caused by it. I would be more suspecting if files were corrupted or changed in some other form than being replaced by other notes' contents. The kind of issue points to Obsidian as the…

Make sure to set your Obsidian folder to "Keep downloaded" on iCloud for every device. Otherwise iCloud automatically deletes files locally to save space on your device. It's a terrible default and Apple doesn't provide any way for developers to detect if it's off.

Thanks for the advice. I have "Keep downloaded" enabled already for all my devices, so it does not seem to be the cause for this issue, although I am sure it may be a factor for others.

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by sReinwald »

btreecat wrote: post #137
sReinwald wrote: post #135

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I keep one vault for almost everything because the cross-domain links are where the interesting stuff happens. I studied sociology, political science, and media & communication before moving into IT, and I'm still actively interested in all of it and especially how these topics intersect. Where does a note on Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality go? The social science vault? The IT vault? Both? With a single vault I…

I just don't see myself needing to cross link my DnD, work, food, and home-lab nots significantly enough to not use separate collections.

Yeah, totally valid for things like D&D - I split that out too, for the same reason.

Work and homelab overlap constantly for me though. I make heavy use of periodic notes, so even something like recipes would get linked in weekly logs for meal planning or tracking. The connections don't have to be deep to be useful - sometimes it might just be 'I made this thing on this day' and that's enough context to be worth having in one place.

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by _neil »

ahmadyan wrote: post #94

A few months ago, i took the bullet and migrated my notes from Notion to .md files. This was the second time i migrated my notes (last time from Evernote to Notion), and this time it was a lot easier. Kudos to the Notion team for making export so easy. Just downloaded the notes, then told Claude to organize and remove duplicate or index mds (Notion keeps a lot of random indexes) and clean up and within 30mins i had a…

If you haven't already, set your vault directory in iCloud to `Keep Downloaded`. I had issues with notes going missing or just being empty shortly after saving, and this setting fixed that.

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by troyvit »

I threw Obsidian over a vimwiki set-up I had and it's been pretty fun. I made a separate base for a "CRM" I'm building (it's just people, companies, and their projects, not customer relationship management). It's nice to have all my vimwiki stuff there and great to have a database when I need that view. I think I'm using about 5% of its capabilities though.

Sync is not automatic for me and so far that's a feature. I commit my changes to gitlab and since it's markdown that gives me a chance to review what I've done and add a summary in my commit message. It helps me stay a little more focused.

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by sailingcode »

rockooooo wrote: post #16

I've tried obsidian so many times and want to love it but the sync situation - either the expensive official one, the approved options for mixed iOS/Windows clients (icloud) and third party tools like obsidain-livesync - were all way too issue-prone for me to ever trust it. I hope they figure this out

I had the same issues, so I built a macOS menu-bar app that does one-click git pull/commit/push for any local folder, including Obsidian vaults. Uses the system git binary, fast-forward merges only (stops on conflict instead of silently merging), blocks secrets before push.

Re: Introduction to Obsidian

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Post by ChadMoran »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #112
ChadMoran wrote: post #67

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I've embraced radical simplicity with Obsidian. I have an inbox folder that is where all new docs go. Then daily notes. That's it. I tag lines with #thething #theotherthing. Tagging acts as the organization, lowers the barrier of entry and keeps things discoverable.

Indented lines don't inherit tags, right? I use logseq but Obsidian seems way more widespread, but I am struggling to give up tag inheritance

No but that seems like a read-query/time concern that can be solved rather than your data.
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