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Sounds like Obsidian but with extra steps.
by j_maffe 1y ago
Sounds like Obsidian but with extra steps.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoObsidian sounds like text files with extra steps, but your point remains, plain text files are great. There's multiple solutions from keeping them available across devices.
- alfons_foobar 1y agoWell yeah, Obsidian is basically a markdown editor with some nice extra features. And apparently a quite thriving plugin ecosystem.
- Lutger 1y agoThe extra step is to open the text file in an editor, except in this case the editor is called Obsidian. Granted, you do have to install it versus using the default editor that comes with your operating system, so that is an extra step. But most people don't use the builtin editors from their OS anyway.
- supermatt 1y agoIs one of those extra steps “not pay $50 a year to have access on all your devices”, or maybe it’s “not pay $100 a year to access via the web”?
- nsteel 1y agoI have access on all my devices through my email provider WebDAV. I don't pay anything to Obsidian for this (but I do donate to them because it actually is the best notes provider, in my opinion).
- supermatt 1y agoSo I guess the extra step is “not install and configure a 3rd party WebDAV plugin for all your devices while ensuring you have WebDAV support by your email provider”?
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- nsteel 1y agoI guess so. I'm personally not getting bogged down in extra steps or not. I simply don't trust GH to keep my personal note data for me, it's much too valuable. It looks like it is possible to backup GH issue data... with some extra steps...
- rubidium 1y agoI thought it supports most file storage sync solutions? I’m using with the free iCloud level storage I believe.
- supermatt 1y agoSure, but then you can’t access it on windows or android. Or the web. I’m responding more to the comment that it’s extra steps. It’s clearly not as good a solution as obsidian, but there are no extra steps for it being accessible over the web or to all your devices - not just those for the devices built in cloud provider.
- gchamonlive 1y agoIf windows or android is a must then use something that has a client in them. I use OneDrive because it's the cheapest in my region. It's got terrible support from Microsoft, just lazy and terrible, but there are third party sync solutions for all platforms. I think GitHub/gitlab issues is totally viable. Obsidian/Logseq too.
- supermatt 1y agoDoes onedrive work now for syncing obsidian on iOS? I don’t think it did when I last tried a year or so ago.
- gchamonlive 1y agoIf it doesn't, you just need to find one that does. I use it because I don't care about iOS. If you need one that supports iOS, macos, windows, Android and Linux and there isn't one, then it's justified to pay for their sync solution. Or just use GitHub/gitlab issues.
- j_maffe 1y agoI use Git syncing on GitHub with 0 issues myself. Since when has file syncing been an issue?
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- cpach 1y agoI gladly pay those fifty bucks. Creating good applications require hard work. (I wouldn’t say Obsidian is perfect, but so far I haven’t found any note-taking application that I like more.)
- supermatt 1y agoI’m not denying that obsidian is a better solution, just pointing out to the parent that there aren’t “extra steps” to the described solution - it is exactly what it is - but you need to add paid features (8$/m) to obsidian in order to get web access.
- j_maffe 1y agoNo you don't. You can use your own web-hosting or web-syncing solutions. I just use Git. There's an excellent (and free) plugin on Obsidian exactly for this reason.
- stavros 1y agoDoes this plugin let me export Obsidian notes as a website? Would you happen to remember the name?
- supermatt 1y agothat sounds like "extra steps" to me... and you still need somewhere to sync to and serve from...
- j_maffe 1y agoI never said Obsidian doesn't require extra steps to setup sync without paying. Do you happen to know one that also allows you to save locally and have back-linking features?
- j_maffe 1y agoAlso with Github you can have a private repo for free with which you can host and sync your files.
- nsteel 1y agoAnd unlike Obsidian, online only. Can you even backup GH issues? If not, that's surely got to be a deal-breaker.
- pipes 1y agoCan I host obsidian myself? I would like to use it for work, but I don't want to expose my employer to potential data leak. I'm thinking, host it locally and just let one drive act as back up for the mark down files it produces?
- delcaran 1y agoWith Syncthing you don't need hosting. I use it for everything I can.
- conception 1y agoIt’s just a bunch of markdown files. You can sync with anything. I just use a git plugin.
- justusthane 1y agoAs others have pointed out you don't "host" Obsidian - it's just a local collection of markdown files. But if you're asking about a self-hosted alternative to "Obsidian Publish" for creating a knowledgebase that others can answer, I'm Quartz[0], a static-site generator designed to turn Obsidian markdown files into a website. I'm building and it and hosting it on Gitlab Pages at work[1]. [0]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ [1]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/hosting#gitlab-pages https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/hosting#gitlab-pages
- pipes 1y agoThanks, I just need it locally on my own machine, do t need to share. Just need to back it up. I can't install software, but I can run containers, so I thought I'd just run osidians docker image and host on my mavhine
- etra0 1y agoI recently went through this effort and I'd say it's worth it. In particular, I've used the "Self-hosted LiveSync" plug-in + docker.io/oleduc/docker-obsidian-livesync-couchdb, and I setup all my infrastructure within a VPN (with Tailscale, this was pain-free). I knew about using just git, but having Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, it was just way easier to use this solution instead of fighting with git-like apps for each OS.