• immortaly007@feddit.nl
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    I’ve recently switched from Notion to Obsidian (almost anyway). But I still have to find a good way to sync. I tried nextcloud, but I couldn’t get two way sync to work on mobile. I feel like €10,- a month for just sync is a bit much, and it (partly) defeats the idea of “the files are mine”.

    I wish the official sync software was available for self hosting (ie as a Docker container). Maybe even against a one time fee?

    What solutions do others here use for syncing?

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        I used to use syncthing but got annoyed by it drawing sooooo much battery from my android phone. Tried the fork and got it down a bit but kt was just too much in the end.

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        Amazing, sync has been holding me back from adopting Obsidian. I’ve been tooling around with Nextcloud Notes/Quillpad thus far and while it works, it has its limits - especially since I like to link my notes to one another. This might actually be the thing that finally gets me to switch. Thank you for sharing.

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          A thousand times. And I say that as a fan of Syncthing, I use it for half a dozen other use cases.

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      I just keep my vault in Dropbox and use Dropbox sync for Android to keep it working on my phone.

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      If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, you can toss your vault into iCloud Drive. If you’re technically proficient (and brave) you can write a cron to sync into whichever service you want via a local machine.

      In addition to iCloud, I have a one-way sync (rsync) which functions as a poor man’s backup to get all my files into Dropbox; lots of stern warnings from Obsidian not to use Dropbox.

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      Obsidian and Syncthing should work together in theory, though I haven’t tried them.

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      I used syncthing for a while. Then tried github with mostly terrible results. Now i’m back on syncthing. It involves a little bit of setup, but i mostly forget about it now. It just works.

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      I keep the vault in Nextcloud, and use Nextcloud notes for any other platform than desktop. For the most part it’s working pretty great.

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      My sync setup, working perfectly, and using Obsidian on all 3 devices almost daily. YMMV.

      • Desktop (Mac): Google Drive

      • Chromebook (installed as Linux app): Google Drive

      • Phone (Android): AutoSync for Google Drive. Bought paid version just to support them, don’t think it was necessary. $5, got to spend my Google Play Credit 😊👍