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Obsidian's problem is Sync + Publish costs way too much, esp. when compared with competitors. Notesnook provides almost everything Evernote provides, with encr
by bayindirh 3y ago
Obsidian's problem is Sync + Publish costs way too much, esp. when compared with competitors.
Notesnook provides almost everything Evernote provides, with encryption, better publishing and syncing.
Notion provides more features, incl. publishing and syncing plus the kitchen sink and its factory, yet it doesn't have offline access.
For sync + publish, I have to pay 1.5x what Dropbox wants for 2TB of storage, or what Trello wants for a year, etc.
It makes no sense, at least for me.
BTW, Evernote's .enex format is just well-defined XML. You can parse and convert it into anything you want. It's a modest superset of Markdown.
- gaws 3y ago> Notesnook provides almost everything Evernote provides, with encryption, better publishing and syncing. In the two years I've used Notesnook, my biggest issue is the slow syncing between devices: A change I make on the mobile app takes minutes to update on the desktop app, whereas a similar change on the Obsidian mobile app is nearly instantaneous. Additionally, Notesnook doesn't allow external editors, like vim or emacs, to edit files. Sure, you can extort files to Markdown, but those do not get synced anywhere. Obsidian gives a user the flexibility by editing files directly without the app.
- DeathArrow 3y ago>Obsidian's problem is Sync + Publish costs way too much, esp. when compared with competitors. You can sync for free using Syncthing or OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox free accounts.
- bayindirh 3y agoThanks! Does that work with the mobile app, too?
- DeathArrow 3y agoYes, it does.
- bosie 3y agoOn ios you can only do icloud though
- da5is 3y agoThere's a plugin that resolves this (https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save) and you can also use pre-launch shortcuts using WorkingCopy if you want to sync via git.
- TooManyProjects 3y agoI tried using iCloud to sync for a year and went back to Obsidian Sync. I’m not sure exactly what the culprit was, but frequently, I would find my ToDo note (which was used the most) would be stuck and fail to sync for days. Rebooting the stick machine would clear the issue. I was using two Macs and my iPhone at the time.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoFor me it's fixed by rebooting my mac actually. Had that yesterday for the first time. You can check who's not syncing by checking the "Files" app.
- bosie 3y agobecause it uses icloud drive. and that syncs poorly and on its own schedule. it would sometimes take a day or so to get a file from my mac studio to my macbook. it is crazy how bad icloud is.
- RDaneel0livaw 3y agomy wife and I share stuff within icloud and we both HATE IT SO MUCH. It's truly mind boggling how bad it is, and continues to be, in 2023. Photos sometimes sync, sometimes they don't. Cool. Sometimes rebooting the phone makes them sync, other times not. Awesome. Sometimes shared notes get updated, other times they don't. Sometimes shared note invitations just never arrive at all, for no discernible reason. Sweet. It took us 4 attempts to do a shared Home app invitation. The first 3 times it just never showed up. We HATE HATE HATE icloud so much but our only other option is to switch everything to Android and I hate Google more than I hate Apple, so ....... we just stick with icloud and its absolute shittiness.