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Ditching Obsidian and building my own
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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use it with wireguard, but Zerotier works just fine on Android.
As does tailscale!
My only issue with wireguard/tailscale is that somehow my work IT has managed to make it unusable on our wifi. It's really annoying. I'm pretty sure it's a misconfiguration on their end but they don't have any reason to care.
OpenVPN does seem to always work everywhere (presumably because outside contractors and support personnel use OpenVPN when onsite so it's a squeaky wheel that matters) so I've moved to that instead. Beyond that I can't figure out what the hell is the problem and the way IT works, they have no reason to fix it. I did get them to somewhat work on it by reporting Google VPN as randomly failing, but they just fixed Google VPN and nothing more than that. So anyway wireguard is great until you encounter bullshit corporate firewalls.
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1. I have Wireguard set up on all my mobile devices and configured to automatically start when connecting to any wifi that isn't mine, so I can take my devices anywhere and I'm still on my home LAN. It works seamlessly and flawlessly. I self-host a lot of services, and without Wireguard (or equivalent), remote access just wouldn't be realistic.
How did you automate it to start on networks which are not yours? This is like the only piece of the puzzle for me.
All my regular mobile devices are Apple, so whoever said that has it right. I also have a Linux laptop but NetworkManager support for Wireguard was broken last I checked, and at the time I didn't care enough to set it up by hand.
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#214> Since my PKMS is hosted online to manage notes across devices, I have multiple layers of security to ensure my notes are kept private. {Screenshot of a login form} The biggest life hack I can recommend for a self hoster is to set up a VPN on your local network and then just never expose your services on the public internet unless you're specifically trying to serve people outside your own household. Before I did th…
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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#215I don't understand the negative concerns mentioned by the author.
It's quite easy to sync notes to your mobile device using a free method, or using a cloud service you might already be paying for [4].
The great thing about Obsidian is that the notes itself are just markdown files, so you can use them in any other program. This protects you as a user in case Obsidian enters a enshittification phase. A good alternative is haptic [0], it is very similar to Obsidian but can also be used in the browser. Or LogSeq [1], SilverBullet[2] and just Visual Studio Code also work well. For just editing a single file MarkText[3] is also good.
[0]: https://github.com/chroxify/haptic
[1]: https://logseq.com/
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#216I'm at the other side of the note system trade-off thingy. I use Apple Notes. It's not perfect, but if I really want better search functionality, I'll just use the SQLite database that stores the notes. I've never needed to roll up my sleeves for that. I get around the limitations. It's not perfect, but crafting one's own Personal Knowledge Management System sounds like a 5 year journey for 10 to 20 hours per week at…
You might be interested in this, then: https://www.myforevernotes.com/
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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s $4 a month to sync Obsidian notes, for anyone wondering.
I think your comment is very disingenuous. And not just because it's another subscription. That plan does not work if you got more than one vault, and if you use Obsidian you will probably have more than one vault. https://obsidian.md/sync
> if you use Obsidian you will probably have more than one vault.
Why would anyone ever want to use more than one vault? I just use different folders. The only reason I can think of would be if you are using Obsidian for work where you aren't allowed to use unapproved services.
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
As does tailscale!
Or headscale: https://headscale.net/stable/
This is my recommendation for anyone that wants full control.
I use Tailscale, purely out of laziness and a willingness to trust them today, but I'd move to head scale if either of those caveats changed.
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#220I really don't want to critisize OP since building stuff for yourself is always a good mentality. But lets be realistic, 1000$ over 10 years is nothing. It will always cost more if you consider your own time for maintenance long term. Obsidian is one of the most consumer friendly business for note taking out of there, they are not VC so the Evernote comparison is unwarranted IMO.
> But lets be realistic, 1000$ over 10 years is nothing Where is the limit ? While $100/year maybe doesn't sound like much, it's hardly the only subscription service you have, and they all add up, from your mail provider, office suite, cloud storage, streaming services, phone bills, internet service, etc. Personally I find $100/year to edit notes on my phone to be a bit much, but then again, I just use iOS Notes. I a…
Personally, I just set myself a budget of $100/month for subscriptions. I was going to drive myself crazy judging every one all the time, so I decided as long as I’m under this threshold I’m not going to stress.
I track the ones I have so I can compare the cost, looking at either daily, monthly, or yearly cost. Sorting by price, I can look them over to judge if one of them seems unusually expensive for what it is, and regularly review to see if there are and I’m not using and need to be cancelled.
My most expensive is the could backup for my NAS. $8/month is about what I pay for Proton, which offers a lot more than just note syncing. So $8 for notes does seem like a lot. Looking at Obsidian’s pricing page[0], the $8/month is for publishing… hosting a website with your Obsidian data. Just syncing is only $4, and there are many free ways to do it. That part of the article felt like the author was trying to justify writing their own tool due to cost. That doesn’t feel justified, and they were stretching… but the good thing is there doesn’t need to be any financial justification at all. Just make your own tool for the sake of making your own tool. That’s good enough.