I installed logseq but i guess i am either too stupid to learn it or just lazy because there are so many things
Ditching Obsidian and building my own
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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#402> 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…
Tailscale is actually great for this if you configure an exit node on a device in your home.
It doesn't need to be an exit node unless you want to direct all traffic through that node, like a traditional VPN.
The beauty of Tailscale is that it will only direct traffic to a node that is meant for that node, everything else goes via the internet.
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Again, a little bit odd considering that the author is technically savvy enough to write an entire PKMS but didn't seem to consider that you can just check your markdown notes into a git repository and sync with the native android/iOS Obsidian app on a mobile device. Even simpler, I have mine in a Dropbox folder. Felt very strange for _this_ to be the straw that broke the camel's back for the author. Nonetheless, v…
Even simpler, just pay for the feature
Yeah agreed - does anyone really care for $4/month?
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#406Is there a reason that Obsidian, Notion and OP all decided to use a dedicated sync service, as opposed to just using generic file storage, which may or may not be in the cloud ? It would seem to me that it would leave out a whole lot of complexity to just use Google Drive / OneDrive / iCloud Drive to handle the synchronization across devices, and if need be you could then just add encryption on the cloud storage (if…
You can sync an Obsidian vault with whatever you wish, the online option is mostly convenience.
On desktop yes, but on iOS at least, i can choose between iCloud, local or Obsidian Sync.
Simply "plugging in" to an iOS File Provider interface would be a better experience from a user perspective, but i realize it would sell fewer Sync licenses, which appears to be the business model after they removed the requirement for purchasing a license for commercial use.
iCloud and local are less problematic, but Obsidian Sync introduces a governance / compliance hell i'm not prepared to face, and OneDrive / SharePoint is the preferred, pre approved, company file syncing platform. Getting Obsidian Sync approved requires GDPR audits and other niceties from ISAE 3000.
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Could you provide an example of one of the well written explanations?
just go and look at any of the vendors selling “zero trust” solutions. They all have white papers available about how a) perimeter security is “dead” and b) how their specific flavor of zero trust is the One True zero trust and the only thing you can trust to protect your data. You will without exception need to provide an email address to access these white papers, so their inside sales team can ensure you fully und…
It's sad that "zero trust" has become almost the opposite of what it originally meant. Now you can have the same insecure RDP server with admin/admin login but at least it's protected by a VPN that only a few tens of thousands of people have access to.
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#408Vibe coding a plugin to increase security, compared to trusted, open-source code? The mind boggles.
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you automate it to start on networks which are not yours? This is like the only piece of the puzzle for me.
For the Tailscale app on Apple platforms it’s called VPN On Demand. Here's how you can configure it. https://tailscale.com/kb/1291/ios-vpn-on-demand
Does it still eat your battery? It used to, and it was so annoying I moved to Nebula
Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own
#410Good article but as a heavy user of Obsidian (and previously Evernote), I would offer some counterpoints: > After some mental gymnastics weighing if I should continue with Obsidian, I found solace when asking myself "Can I see myself using this in 20 years?". I couldn't. The thought of cyclically migrating notes from one PKMS to another every 5 years, as I had done from Evernote to Notion to Obsidian, made me feel ti…
Again, a little bit odd considering that the author is technically savvy enough to write an entire PKMS but didn't seem to consider that you can just check your markdown notes into a git repository and sync with the native android/iOS Obsidian app on a mobile device. Also, Obsidian supports free iCloud sync if you are a Mac and iOS user. I know that's only a subset of users, but a nice option to get Obsidian to sync…
Even setting up your own couchdb + livesync should be a small task if one can consider to 'write a whole app' to replace obsidian
edit note, if you want to build something :) please expand livesync or a new plugin to allow easily sharing of self hosted obsidian notes :) All the ones I tried use some 3rd party hosting which I don't like even if its encrypted.