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Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by nsteel »

harvey9 wrote: post #63
trwhite wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s $4 a month to sync Obsidian notes, for anyone wondering.

It's a good price but still feels wasteful if you also run/pay for nextcloud or similar.

There are plugins allowing you to sync via other means (for free). I don't know how the author fails to realise/mention this. I've been using Remotely Save with WebDAV or years without issue.

And the notes are all just markdown files. If the obsidian software were to disappear you have all your notes. It's fine someone wanted to spend a load of time writing their own software but none of the reasons presented in this piece make sense.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by brightball »

lolinder wrote: post #6

> 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.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by caconym_ »

williamsss wrote: post #36
vunderba wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do agree with the author and others that I also wouldn't feel comfortable storing personal notes on Github. As I mentioned in a previous comment - you can use "git" without Github by hosting an instance of the open-source Gitea service. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

Thanks for sharing. I'll have a play with Gitea My concern with this approach would be I've read through Directus' codebase and can understand it. With a self-hosted Git server like this I'd be worried if shit hit the fan and corrupted my Git files or stopped being maintained I'd be a duck out of water

> if shit hit the fan and corrupted my Git files or stopped being maintained I'd be a duck out of water

You should have the same concern with anything you're hosting yourself, and you should have 3-2-1 backups to mitigate that concern. Gitea just uses regular Git repositories under the hood last i checked, and Git is an extremely mature system; I'd expect 20+ year old repositories to work fine as long as the data are kept physically intact.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by Zambyte »

rafram wrote: post #71
lolinder wrote: post #6

> 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…

The downside is that if you’re on a two-week vacation and your home network/server goes down on day two, there’s probably nothing you can do until you get home. If it’s hosted online, you can count on that 99.99…% uptime and SSH access no matter what.

These solutions are composable. Just run it on a VPS over a VPN.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by kepano »

layer8 wrote: post #72
bayindirh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think any app which can sync in the background can automatically sync things? Dropbox, Moebius, PCloud, Google Drive? My Office vault lives in a separate cloud service, and it works?

My understanding is that on iOS your only non-paid choice is iCloud, and iCloud doesn’t reliably sync to non-Apple systems. To clarify, the use case here is that you have an iPhone but also non-Apple systems, which is a fairly common scenario.

iCloud is not the only alternative to Obsidian Sync on iOS. There are also several Obsidian plugins that allow you to sync to a variety of services.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by SahAssar »

lolinder wrote: post #6

> 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…

So you've managed to unlearn the last decade of security learnings in regards to zero-trust and similar concepts?

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by caconym_ »

lolinder wrote: post #6

> 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…

+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.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by AstroBen »

> It helped me reclaim control over my privacy, and significantly cut down on recurring costs.

Obsidian has end to end encryption and is $4 a month. I totally relate to it being fun to build your own tools but acting like it's a practical use of time... idk

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