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Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
- sciencesama 7mo agowhat does this mean ? can i self host stuff ?
- theptip 7mo agoWhy would you use this over plain git in a CI pipeline? Presumably you need your knowledge graph versioned?
- articsputnik 7mo agoQuoting[1] kepano (CEO of Obsidian) - Why you might use Obsidian Sync headless: - Automate remote backups - Automate publishing a website - Give agentic tools access to a vault without access to your full computer - Sync a shared team vault to a server that feeds other tools - Run scheduled automations e.g. aggregate daily notes into weekly summaries, auto-tag, etc ...all while having the speed, privacy, customizability, end-to-end encryption of Obsidian Sync. [1]: https://x.com/kepano/status/2027485552451432936 https://x.com/kepano/status/2027485552451432936
- breakyerself 7mo agoI just use Dropbox with dropsync on my phone. I never use the knowledge graph anyway
- boomskats 7mo agoIf you have automation that dumps things int your vault, that you built with their new CLI (which lets you create/tag docs etc. without running the full electron app), I guess this lets you sync those changes and propagate them to all of your obsidian sync clients also without having to open aforementioned full electron app.
- jatari 7mo agoDoes the knowledge graph have a function other than to show off how big your vault is?
- kid64 7mo agoOnly in 2nd-brain mythology, which holds that you'll discover connections between your notes that you didn't realize was there. I think it started as eye candy to confuse prospective users considering Roam Notes. They later did something similar with their "Canvas" feature. So, these are features you get with their lack of coherent vision, rather than basic usability and a safe plugin ecosystem, neither of which Obsidian plans to deliver..
- iammjm 7mo agoLet me provide a counter argument: with the graph you can browse your notes visually in 2D, instead of just the usual list. You can just take notes as usual, easily add #tags and [[links]] in them, and then when you go to graph view you can see connections between those links and you can color code or filter tags. You get a global graph view of all your vault, and local view of any note. Links and tags are literally the core Obsidian features and the graph view sits on top of that. For me that is a coherent vision and utility.
- kid64 7mo agoSorry, the lack of vision I referred to related to Obsidian's leadership -- unserious D&D kids largely unconcerned with usability, performing security theatrics with sync e2ee while their users data is regularly at risk of mass exfiltration via their insanely dangerous community plugin ecosystem. The on-screen appearance of the feature you're referring to may be visual and coherent, I'm just pointing out that users frequently cite theoretical or anticipated benefits of this feature, not real ones.
- wiether 7mo agoTo enjoy the native ease of use and security of Obsidian Sync as a human user on your devices; while being able to automate things on a server.
- TheDong 7mo agoiOS makes it painful to use third-party sync protocols and servers, like syncthing can't run in the background, a git sync service can't run in the background, only iCloud gets to run in the background.... and whatever sync protocol the app itself has blessed so it can run immediately on opening the app. As such, on iOS the native sync is the only one that works cleanly and seamlessly, and so you're incentivized to pay for it. There was a little while, when dropbox was big, where it seemed like the future of computing would be "your data is in the cloud, and every app you use can share that data, and those two things are independent integrated through some common filesystem layer". And then it ended up that no, your data's in a cloud-per-service, where your emails live in googles cloud, your documents in microsoft 365's cloud, your images in "adobe creative cloud"'s cloud, your photos in Apple's cloud, your passwords in 1Password's cloud, and your knowledgebase in Obsidian's cloud. The dream of the filesystem API being able to expand to clouds, of being able to choose dropbox or google or apple as the owner of your data, and other applications seamlessly integrating with any of them, it died with apple making it impossible to offer any sort of generic filesystem API or even background sync. And so, that's why you'd use obsidian sync over git, because you're cursed with using a phone. Unless you're saying "why not pay for obsidian sync, but then sync it into a git repo in CI and commit there to see the diffs", not "why not use git as the underlying sync protocol", in which case ignore everything I wrote, you totally could do that.
- theptip 7mo agoGotcha, thanks. I just use git but don’t sync to my iPhone, this helps give context on the value prop there.
- Terretta 7mo ago> it died with apple making it impossible to offer any sort of generic filesystem API or even background sync Apple's cloud storage remained WebDAV a very very long time. Apple's iOS has a pluggable Files system. Use Working Copy to give other apps access to folders sync'd with git: https://workingcopy.app https://workingcopy.app Or a dedicated app like GitSync: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gitsync/id6744980427 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gitsync/id6744980427
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- kelvinjps10 7mo agoIt would be good since I don't use obsidian on my desktop but I do on my phone, so that way I can use it for syncing and then open the documents on Neovim on my desktop
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- deniskim 7mo agoNice to see an official headless option. If anyone is looking to do headless syncing specifically to their own Synology NAS, I created an open-source alternative for that here: https://pypi.org/project/obsidian-synology-sync/ https://pypi.org/project/obsidian-synology-sync/
- mtucker502 7mo agoI know this is headless but is there any other reason I should use this over the official Synology drive app?
- tigereyeTO 7mo agoSynology Drive is a file and folder syncing system. Obsidian is a note and wiki syncing system. You should use an obsidian syncing system if you want to sync notes and wikis. You should use a file syncing system if you want to sync files.
- fwn 7mo agoThis reply does not address parents question at all. A key feature of Obsidian is that it stores your notes in an open folder structure on your file system. A very valid question is whether there are benefits to using a special note sync application rather than a standard file system sync application, and if so, what those benefits are.
- kepano 7mo agoThe official Sync is focused on providing a more integrated experience in the Obsidian app - Built-in version history - Cross-platform support, especially on mobile - Fine-grained control (e.g. different theme/plugins/settings per device) - Sharing your vaults with other users
- mcjiggerlog 7mo agoI've been using Synology Drive to sync Obsidian between different machines and my android phone and it works great. I've never seen a need to use the official sync.
- corysama 7mo agoAlso new: Obsidian joins the CLI gang https://help.obsidian.md/cli https://help.obsidian.md/cli I’ve been having a lot of fun recently using AI CLIs with Obsidian. No plugins necessary because it’s just a directory tree of markdown files.
- giancarlostoro 7mo agoOh snap! Thanks for that, I can really make good use of this!
- manmal 7mo agoI've been using iCloud to sync Obsidian, and have consistently run into the problem that iCloud file container access needs full disk permissions that I don't want to give the agent (or Ghostty). Does everybody use Obsidian's paid sync instead or what? Or SyncThing?
- jorgejiro 7mo agoI've been using Obsidian since the beginning, and it's the best money I can spend annually. It works perfectly, and I've never had any problems.
- Cpoll 7mo agoI first used the Obsidian git-sync plugin. That worked fine, but but when I couldn't get it operable with my phone I caved and paid for sync.
- typicalrunt 7mo agoI used to use SyncThing, then Dropbox, then iCloud. But then I just caved and paid for Obsidian Sync and it is the best money spent aside from Claude. I don't have to tinker with weird settings anymore or deal with sync issues, it just works.
- peterb 7mo agoSame
- desireco42 7mo agoThis is huge. I built SidianSidekicks and it is based on git because we don't want to lose your notes and thoughts, but convenience of Obsidan Sync are something that makes everything easy. I get this is in beta, and we will stick to git, but love what they are doing and looking forward to it. Essentially Sync while you can emulate it on desktop, for mobile it is not good experience without Sync. And we want to have and record our thoughts with us all the time.
- pdntspa 7mo agoNow make Dropbox sync work with iPhone
- system2 7mo agoThat will never happen; their only money-making method is to limit the iOS app to sell their cloud. Otherwise, the desktop is already free with your own vault folder. They are trying their hardest to prevent users from using Google Drive or other services natively. While it is just a small option to add, it will make everyone drop their $4 cloud subscription.
- kepano 7mo agoIf that were true Obsidian would not allow third-party sync plugins in the official directory, and wouldn't mention third-party options in the official docs: https://help.obsidian.md/sync-notes https://help.obsidian.md/sync-notes The goal for Obsidian Sync is to be the best option, not the only option.
- system2 7mo agoI just tried just to see if something changed, and I get this message when selecting Other: ############### Other Syncing Methods: Obsidian officially supports two syncing methods: Obsidian Sync and iCloud. However, because obsidian gives you control over your data there are other sync options you can use. These options include third-party plugins and other tools which may require more advanced setup. To use an alternative sync method, create a vault and follow the instructions provided by the plugin or third-party sync provider. ############### I went ahead and created a vault specifically to test this out, but I wasn't able to find any way to open Google Drive from within the app. To give some context, I use KeePassium with a KeePass vault stored in my Google Drive, and it works seamlessly, I can browse to the directory and select my database right from the file picker. Unfortunately, that same experience doesn't seem to be available in Obsidian. I'm a Windows user for work and don't use iCloud for anything, so Google Drive is really my go-to. I've tried multiple times to make it work, but it doesn't appear to be an option. As I understand it, Google Drive isn't natively selectable from Obsidian's iOS menu, and this wouldn't be a trivial thing to add since Google Drive appears as a folder in the native iOS file browser, which is exactly how I use it with other apps like KeePassium. I've submitted this as a request on GitHub several times, and even mentioned that I'd happily pay a one-time fee to unlock this functionality. I'm not a fan of subscriptions personally, but I do believe in supporting developers for their work. That said, if there truly is a way to use Google Drive with Obsidian on iOS, I'd genuinely love to see a step-by-step guide, could you share one?
- abnry 7mo agoFantastic! Now I don't need to run it in a headless xorg session.
- madmod 7mo agoFor some reason obsidian sync consitently empties random recently opened notes for me. I think it might be some kind of race condition between icloud sync and obsidian sync. File gets touched before obsidian gets to it so the empty note is seen as a new file. That theory doesn't quite hold up though because the same thing happens to me using the android client. Has anyone here had this problem?
- _neil 7mo agoI had this happen a bunch when I was using iCloud sync on multiple devices. I think it was mostly solved by setting the directory to “keep downloaded” (right click on it in finder and it’s the second option). That said, I’ve switched one vault to git and have had no issues there.
- dispersed 7mo agoThis is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history: > The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.
- jon-wood 7mo agoYou can use this to sync changes in (near) realtime and then either commit them to git, or use some other mechanism to increase retention.
- qwertox 7mo agoIt also won't replace Postgres, because that is also a different thing.
- dispersed 7mo agoWhat do you mean? Version history is explicitly a feature of Obsidian Sync: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Version+history https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Version+history
- qwertox 7mo agoYes, but just because it has version history doesn't mean it is closer to git than to Postgres. You can also do versioning in Postgres. You can even search more easily in the history.
- eric-p7 7mo agoI wish I could use Obsidian to edit single markdown files. If my project has a readme.md I don't want to create an obsidian vault with its configuration files in my project, just to open it.
- kepano 7mo agoYeah we'll add that at some point. It's a bit trickier than it seems because a lot of Obsidian configuration and app functionality is vault-specific. E.g. what theme should be used? What plugins should be available? Does autocomplete for [[links]] or properties do anything? Etc.
- toddmorey 7mo agoVSCode opens single files outside of projects. What do they do? Personally I wouldn’t mind if it just defaulted to the settings of the last-used vault.
- ezfe 7mo agoIf you don't have a window open, then VSCode opens with no active workspace. There are no workspace settings at all, and there is no file tree. But since VSCode has user level settings, these are what is used, including theming/etc. If you have a window open, the file is opened to the workspace for that window. You can see this in action because the "Trust" dialog specifically says that you're trying to open untrusted files into a trusted workspace.
- random3 7mo agomaybe you're overthinking it a little. You could make it of a default setup like the one you use for the sandbox, or some curated fast-loading one
- aaronharding 7mo agoi am not sure its that tricky, just have some user settings that are loaded when you open individual markdown files. show a different ui or hide some parts of the ui if need be!
- kepano 7mo agoOh! I worked on this project. If anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them!
- Mountain_Skies 7mo agoNo questions, just thanks for helping with a great product.
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 7mo agoAre there plans to support scoped token permissions (specific folders or even specific notes)? I'd love to try setting up something that automatically updates a specific Obsidian note on a state change or cronjob, but I'd want to avoid giving access to the rest of the vault. also, thanks for the great product, bought the vip catalyst as a show of support.
- kepano 7mo agoThanks for your support! Sync is end-to-end encrypted so the server doesn't know about specific paths in your vault. You would have to set those permissions at the filesystem level, or with the tool you're using.
- radlad 7mo agoI'm not sure how to make it work but like others in this thread I have an interest in sharing some - but not all - of my notes with some AI agents. Would love a solution that is built in to Obsidian / Obsidian Sync.
- chrisweekly 7mo agoRelated tangent: "Relay" (https://relay.md https://relay.md") lets you sync / share files based on directory (vs. the whole vault). That enables things like "my private vault contains a subdir for work, and my work machine syncs to only that child subdir".
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- TheGRS 7mo agoInteresting...I've been thinking for a while that doing instructions and logs through my obsidian notes would be really helpful and a great way to do more agentic work. I've paid for obsidian sync as a way to support their team for the last 3 years, but color me impressed that there are some more tangible benefits to it!
- rubslopes 7mo agoHa! Just yesterday I set up a git repo to sync my Obsidian vault with my Ubuntu VPS for LLM use. Part of me wishes this had come out one day sooner, though honestly, I've grown to like the git workflow. The deal-breaker is mobile: it just doesn't play nicely there, so I'll keep using native sync for that.
- RyanShook 7mo agoWhat’s the best way to sync Obsidian without upgrading to their paid tier?
- us-merul 7mo agoGitHub: https://dev.to/padiazg/how-to-sync-your-obsidian-vault-using-github-a-complete-guide-2l08 https://dev.to/padiazg/how-to-sync-your-obsidian-vault-using...
- setopt 7mo agoIf you’re on Apple devices only, then iCloud sync is free and works on all devices. I no longer use Obsidian, so not sure what’s the best option for e.g. Linux <-> iOS sync except their service.
- xRyen 7mo agoI'm quite fond of the obsidian-gut plugin and syncing to a private Forgejo instance.
- ILearnAsIGo 7mo agoFor my work notes, which are not allowed to be stored outside company resources, I have set up a git repo and use a plugin that auto commits. It does not work well for sharing to a mobile env but works great for desktop.
- cuechan 7mo agoI use syncthing to sync my notes between my PC and Laptop. It works pretty well.
- beart 7mo agoThere is a self-hosted live sync plugin. It's rough around the edges but it mostly works and is actively maintained, if you are willing to self-host a sync server. I say mostly works, because there are a lot of "gotchas" and the configuration and set up are a bit intimidating for the clients (the server is simple to host). I used it for a while and it was fine, but I decided the cost of a coffee per month is worth not having to maintain it, and I switched to paying for their sync service. However, there is also a git sync plugin that works really nicely. But it is not a real-time sync and it is not supported on mobile (officially). I mainly use that as a way to keep long running backups of my vaults in a self-hosted gitea instance (the default paid tier only keeps one month of history).
- ravila4 7mo agoNice! I rely on Obsidian a lot for syncing knowledge while working with Claude agents, such as storing research and daily logs to catch up on the prior day’s work. It already works quite well with a custom skill that I build, but this may make the workflow smoother. I also built a cli tool to index embeddings in LanceDB and do semantic search. It helps agents create better internal links between notes. https://github.com/ravila4/obsidian-semantic-search https://github.com/ravila4/obsidian-semantic-search
- system2 7mo agoHow does this affect your token/quota usage?
- ravila4 7mo agoNot much, the main cost is having Claude write notes as we work, which isn't too different from what it does anyway with Plan mode, and it helps me onboard new sessions more easily. It also may save me some tokens because the tool I built helps it semantically search for relevant notes instead of wasting tool calls on grep and reading irrelevant documents.
- kandros 7mo agoFor just text notes is very low token usage, i use Opus for everything and a whole week of notes is like 30m of a coding session
- thejdeep 7mo agoCan you share more details on your setup with Claude Code ?
- ravila4 7mo agoIt's nothing too fancy - I use Obsidian as a memory layer for both agents and myself. I keep a daily programming journal, and ask agents to update it as we work. I often have to nudge it to use the skill, but sometimes it asks me if I want to note things down. The core of the skills is just templates that teach claude how I like my notes formatted, and how my vault is laid out. I find that it is useful as a way to quickly catch up a new session by asking it to read what we did yesterday or earlier that day. The semantic search layer allows it to search further back in time, or find connections across unrelated notes. I built it because it used to waste a lot of tool calls with grep commands whenever I asked it to find something. I'm still iterating, but I put together a repo with some of the skills that I find most useful for organization: https://github.com/ravila4/claude-adhd-skills https://github.com/ravila4/claude-adhd-skills
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- abra0 7mo agoFinally! I had to set up a container with X on my headless server to get a few text files reliably synced, crazy stuff.
- segphault 7mo agoThis was my most-wanted Obsidian feature, so I’m thrilled to see this. It’s going to be great for server-side automation and RAG against Obsidian vaults.
- lolive 7mo agoIsn't there a script or a plugin to sync your vault to github, already? (may be even to sync several vaults, for example to share vaults between colleagues)
- bshaughn 7mo agoThis tool should finally make it possible to setup a good web interface to my obsidian notes. I have a hacky setup using github as the backend storage system but its slow. Ive been surprised at how few people are interested in an obsidian browser tool, but its great if I want to read / write notes from a corporate laptop for example.
- js98 7mo agoOh wow thats good timing. I DIY’ed a workaround for this only last week for my openclaw instance. Happy to change it to this! https://jakobs.dev/granular-notes-access-limiting-openclaw-blast-radius/ https://jakobs.dev/granular-notes-access-limiting-openclaw-b...
- semiinfinitely 7mo agoToo late
- abrookewood 7mo agoI just have my vault sitting in Dropbox ... Not sure what I would gain by moving to Sync?
- Subdivide8452 7mo agoAccess on mobile would be main reason. Perhaps that’s an iOS limitation, and Dropbox on Android is just a perfect replacement.
- kepano 7mo agoEnd-to-end encryption, integrated version history, better mobile support, granular control over which settings and files are synced to each device. And generally help the continued development of Obsidian so we can stay 100% user-supported. https://stephango.com/vcware https://stephango.com/vcware
- johnorourke 7mo agoI did the same, but sync takes it to another level - the conflict resolution is far better, especially when you have it on both desktop and mobile, and for multiple users on a team you can work on the same doc at the same time without worrying or having to check if Dropbox is working. Add the version history and it's a no-brainer.
- eviks 7mo agoNot losing data when you edit your note on two devices
- jFriedensreich 7mo agoGreat, now it can corrupt my data headlessly too.
- spondyl 7mo agoOh neat, I had come across the headless client yesterday (and submitted a now-fixed bug report for it after running into some issues). Before opening HN this morning and seeing this post, I actually wrote a post about how I'm experimentally using headless to publish my blog: https://utf9k.net/blog/obsidian-headless/ https://utf9k.net/blog/obsidian-headless/ Well, that post was my experiment but I'll be looking forward to trying it out going forward. There are of course many alternatives and I'm sure this workflow may have its pains but for now, it feels like a lot less friction between actually writing and having it published. I've used plain Git for many years of course but I've also tried other rube goldberg machines such as various Git-inside-Obsidian plugins and so on but there's always just a bunch of "stuff" between writing and putting it online.
- raybb 7mo agoKinda related, does anyone have a favorite obsidian plugin for AI editing on mobile? I wanna be able to talk to a document and iterate on it just like chatgpt with canvas but inside obsidian. I've been digging around and haven't quite found anything to do that. One potential challenge is I'm not sure how easy it would be to let it do tool calling to edit the document rather than spitting out the whole document each time (with risk of minor changes).
- dimitri-vs 7mo agoI've tried a bunch of them only to settle on using Claude Code with remote control.
- AbstractH24 7mo agoHow’s their mobile all these days? Along with sync that was the other blocker for me always.
- dcchambers 7mo agoMobile app is pretty good, my biggest complaint is it won't sync in the background. It only syncs when you open it up. But it's well designed and fully functional.
- AbstractH24 7mo agoThat a nuisance as I spend a lot of time on the subway without service but not a total dealbreaker
- kepano 7mo agoNo promises but I hope we can solve that this year. I agree it would be a much better experience.
- dcchambers 7mo agoLooking forward to it! Just wanted to say thanks for helping to build Obsidian. It's a great piece of software.
- aradox66 7mo ago[flagged]
- loufe 7mo agoI have probably searched "Obsidian CLI" once a month since I started playing around with AI over a year ago. This is pretty exciting.
- scalemaxx 7mo agoI use Obsidian with my Claude (and Codex) but not sure what additional value the CLI would provide since it's just markdown files. What am I missing that a CLI provides for AI? And not sure how the sync fits into it unless there's a copy of the vault that the AI is working with over CLI? Can use a tip.
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- cleak 7mo agoI really love Obsidian and the direction they’re going with CLI. I think one of the most important things we can do while waiting for super intelligent assistants is capturing more of our thoughts and knowledge. Obsidian has been the tool I do that with.
- NamlchakKhandro 7mo agoIt still needs obsidian running... So not really head less
- sn0n 7mo agoWait… I’m not supposed to to just use Nextcloud and treat it as a local folder of markdown files? Damn… I’m doing it all wrong!!
- sickcodebruh 7mo agoObsidian is my favorite new tool. I started a new job last week and decided to spin it up on day one to help me onboard and learn their system. It’s been wildly successful, the missing piece I needed to really turn Claude Code into the learning and documentation tool I dreamed about.
- Axsuul 7mo agoWill this ever be able to work with a self hosted server?
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- agentic_lawyer 7mo agoThe thing is that there already is a very good self-hosted option for sync - Livesync. I won't say it's not eccentric and confusing (it is!) but once you get it to work, it actually works extremely well and is lightning fast too. I use syncthing as well for backups but livesync has the obvious advantage of working natively inside Obsidian. I'm so done with subscriptions for cloud based solutions and between livesync and syncthing, you've got a very robust set of options to use. iCloud sync actually messed up every file I opened due to the lag between remote copy and local edits. iCloud would delete the last few edits whether I was in the file or after closing the file. Sometimes I would be typing something and I'd watch it delete what I just typed. It was a complete disaster.
- shepherdjerred 7mo agoOn the other hand, I'll happily support the developers at Obsidian. It's a great product.
- bean469 7mo agoThanks for the recommendation! Will get this set up for sure
- shepherdjerred 7mo agoI just built a headless sync client a few days ago. Happy that there's now an official solution!
- fuckinpuppers 7mo agoThis will save me the overhead of running it in a docker container (I think it used mono or something) so that’s cool. I am still split using Evernote mostly because the experience feels a little more purpose built. I have some annoying usability issues with Obsidian. Control-N starts a new note not in the folder I’m in, but at the top level. Then I have to go move it by hand. Having multiple vaults open winds up with multiple individual windows. A hack is to have one meta vault that encompasses all the sub vaults, but that itself is weird. I would love to have an official multi-vault option. I have separate vaults so I can have work specific things or other things that aren’t exposing the fact I have other vaults tied to my account. However I have some systems I want all of my vaults available, but not multiple instances of obsidian running rather than one instance addressing all vaults - there is a workaround but it feels a too brittle and unofficial. The editor is a little rough comparatively too, even with a couple plugins to help, and I’m not even someone who cares to embed images, pdfs, other things directly in notes. Evernote is overkill and obsidian feels slightly off. Almost there. I’m sure it can be customized better, for example <li> items render well in Evernote but obsidian shows them as markdown and the switching between view, edit and realtime seems difficult to get right. So I’m still paying for both… and I’d prefer not to. Obsidian feels like a better fit overall, I don’t care about all those Evernote features or AI or crazy rich experiences…
- chrisweekly 7mo ago"obsidian shows them as markdown" = try editor settings ("Live Preview") in terms of embedded vaults, I agree there should be better native support -- but I was also delighted to discover Relay (https://relay.md https://relay.md) which supports directory-level (not just vault-level) sync.
- fuckinpuppers 7mo agorelay looks kind of like what I was hoping for, I think... except it's ANOTHER charge then. I have more than 2 devices... I'm confused as well, does this wind up hijacking / using its own syncing? It's not just a "skin" on top of Obsidian itself, to get the benefits of it you have to use their "sync client" ? This feels like it's something that should be part of the core product or at least Obsidian's own Sync product
- yeswecatan 7mo agoI'm having a hard time understanding when I would use this. Could someone provide some examples?
- theshrike79 7mo agoI just had Claude go through my Journal/ and mark 800 obsolete daily tasks as done so that they don't clutter my reports anymore. Any kind of automation, really. Much easier than just raw editing the markdown in some cases.
- miclivs 7mo agoThis one is compatible (mostly) and doesnt require obsidian to run https://github.com/the-shift-dev/napkin https://github.com/the-shift-dev/napkin
- jesse_dot_id 7mo agoWhat is the use case for this? Not being a dick. I think it's a me problem. I use Obsidian and love it, but I'm struggling to see the appeal of this.
- a10c 7mo agoIt's literally in the second sentence. Obsidian Sync offers a headless client to sync vaults without using the desktop app. Useful for CI pipelines, agents, and automated workflows
- jesse_dot_id 7mo agoI did see that but it did not help me understand the specific use cases. Someone else did, though.
- kepano 7mo ago- Automate remote backups - Automate publishing a website - Sync a shared team vault to a server that feeds other tools - Give tools like OpenClaw access to a vault without access to your full computer - Run scheduled automations e.g. aggregate daily notes into weekly summaries, auto-tag, etc
- jesse_dot_id 7mo agoThank you