Love the respect for privacy that Obsidian brings. No tackers and no shit. It's beautiful to find such a great app with a respect for something so important.
Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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#232The sync pricing is frustrating. You can choose between free (single device only), and surprisingly expensive for a low-volume file sync mechanism. Of course I understand there are good reasons for it. It is so difficult to find a paying customer for anything, that it's impractical to price below a cost threshold. LTV > CAC. Would love to see something like “$200 to enable the a peer-to-peer sync engine forever”, i.e…
lots of folks use syncthing or something similar
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#233I've been wanting to play with your software for a while, and I happened to have a moment this time, so I loaded it on my Android phone. If the bracket notation is a commonality among note taking systems like this one, then I may just be too much of an outsider to jump in easily to this app. But I, as someone who was interested in using the app enough to press every button I could see, couldn't figure out how to link…
the help/default vault contains exactly what you're describing
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#234Wasn't expecting this release to be 1.0! But I suppose I should've seen it coming.
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#235I love Obsidian's editor - it hides markup when you're not editing but shows you when your cursor is over some text. The fact that you can just drag an image into a note is great and something terminal note apps will never be able to do. And then there's [[hypertext]]. Love it!
Is there a way to disable the hiding of markdown? I don't like when text moves around
yes, use Source mode
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to use obsidian, but the mobile app does not allow specifying the folder. As a result on iOS you can only use the official syncing method. Maybe it's so you pay for the app, but I would personally rather pay a few for that functionality.
Just checked and that's the first thing I'm asked to do on the Android app. Maybe it only works when creating a vault?
Android is different (i.e. better) than iOS in this regard, since it has much more robust filesystem support. You can easily use git syncing via termux:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/guide-using-git-to-sync-your-obs...
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.
I can't vouch for it because I don't have any iOS devices new enough to support it, but supposedly you can also set it up to sync via git: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...
One thing to note is that this requires manually pulling and pushing in Working Copy as well as paying to unlock pro features ($20 one-time payment) to push to a remote repository.
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#238I just can't keep up with all the note taking apps; I sometimes go through a Phase of "I need a means to organize my things", but invariably just go back to a folder with text documents. The note taking apps are fine, but they will either have a web/electron based interface that is too indirect, or their data storage is not open (like text documents), or they try and upsell you cloud storage / sync, or they offer no…
This is precisely why I ended up on Joplin several years ago... Being able to sync for free (I just pay for S3 costs) means I got cross-device/platform support and know I will never lose my notes. I'm trying to understand the use case where it would be worth it to switch to Obsidian and pay monthly for the sync and no longer host the data myself, which doesn't sound like an improvement to me. The way Obsidian organiz…
fwiw, I just use a syncthing folder for obsidian and I've never had an issue
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#239This tool is so expensive. I want to use it but for this to be an alternative to Notion you'd have to pay for Sync and Publish, which would come to $24/month. That is very pricey for many people.
It's just reading/writing a directory of files. If you set it up to save into a synced directory, whether that be Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, whatever, you can point all your Obsidian installs on various machines to the same synced directory and it'll give you the same effect.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm really struggling to understand how Obsidian isn't free. Maybe I'm simply missing your point. There is no expectation that you use sync, it's simply an option for those that want it and are likely less tech oriented.
From their licensing: "You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it to contribute, directly or indirectly, to revenue-generating, work-related activities in a company that has two or more people." I imagine that applies to many of us. How many people are looking to use Obsidian purely for personal use?
$50/user/yr is about $4/mo.
I struggle to understand the mentality that deems that unreasonable. It'd be a bargain at 5x the price.