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Best free way to sync obsidian? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Obsidian for my note taking for a little while and I love it. I love you can just do a quick [[[other note]]] and it will link to the other note. I love that the full thing is just in markdown files, so that I can have full control; even if Obsidian were to disappear.

The one thing that is a little frustrating for me is getting my notes synced between my desktop, laptop, and phone. I have tried using syncthing to just sync the markdown files directly and it worked pretty well. But, it seems a bit overkill on my phone. I think I'd rather move to a single server that I can connect them to and they can sync from there.

I have looked into a few plugins. I saw that there a git one. I am a developer. So, that seems like the natural way for me to do it. But, I also saw a post on reddit where they suggested webdav. Which might be closer to what I want. I don't need it to be where I can type on two devices and have the stuff sync super fast or something. I just want to type my notes, close the app, and when I open it on a different device; I want it to have my latest notes ready for me.

What are you personally using for Obsidian? I'd love to hear from other people here. I don't want to pay for Obsidian's subscription service. I want to host it myself.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, I ended up choosing the obsidian sync service. While it goes against my "self host everything" mantra, I do also want to support software makers who make great products that respect peoples privacy. As such, I decided the $8/m investment was warranted.

My son in highschool uses Obsidian for all his school note taking, so he actually is able to use the same sync subscription.. As each vault has separate keys, there's no privacy issues between us...

My favourite part of this solution is it supports live update from multiple devices at once, so I have the vault open on phone, tablet, home laptop and work laptop simultaneously, and it just works...

Just thought it was worth sharing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's fair. It's just a lot of money right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't know if you saw that they added a $4/mo tier for Obsidian Sync. I thought $8/mo was too high and went to cancel it and saw the cheaper price. For how well it works as far as speed and reliability of syncing with version control, it's worth that for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I totally get it.... I've been in the same place many times (and I'm sure I will be again...)

I just have a policy of trying to support these things whenever I'm able to, otherwise I feel I'm not able to grumble when privacy respecting apps disappear from existence through lack of financial support...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

12€ (I believe) is way too much to using it maybe once every week for private use.
If it was something like Bitwarden where it's around 10€ per year I would be totally up to paying it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish more projects would have cheap rate subscriptions. Bitwarden was my first floss subscription and I don't even consider canceling it even though I don't really need any of the premium features. (I think its more like 1€ per month.)

But these "its the price of a fancy coffee per month" ones.... Girl I haven't had a fancy coffee since like 2018.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah the 1€ per year was a typo ;) Fixed that