Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Post by fuckinpuppers » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

chrisweekly wrote: post #193

fuckinpuppers wrote: post #189

This will save me the overhead of running it in a docker container (I think it used mono or something) so that’s cool. I am still split using Evernote mostly because the experience feels a little more purpose built. I have some annoying usability issues with Obsidian. Control-N starts a new note not in the folder I’m in, but at the top level. Then I have to go move it by hand. Having multiple vaults open winds up wit…

"obsidian shows them as markdown" = try editor settings ("Live Preview") in terms of embedded vaults, I agree there should be better native support -- but I was also delighted to discover Relay ( https://relay.md ) which supports directory-level (not just vault-level) sync.

Post by kid64 » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

iammjm wrote: post #218

kid64 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only in 2nd-brain mythology, which holds that you'll discover connections between your notes that you didn't realize was there. I think it started as eye candy to confuse prospective users considering Roam Notes. They later did something similar with their "Canvas" feature. So, these are features you get with their lack of coherent vision, rather than basic usability and a safe plugin ecosystem, neither of which Obsi…

Let me provide a counter argument: with the graph you can browse your notes visually in 2D, instead of just the usual list. You can just take notes as usual, easily add #tags and [[links]] in them, and then when you go to graph view you can see connections between those links and you can color code or filter tags. You get a global graph view of all your vault, and local view of any note. Links and tags are literally…