“Honest third option: keep Obsidian for the personal vault and put the genuinely collaborative documents in a self-hosted HedgeDoc or AFFiNE instance. Markdown survives the round trip, and you stop fighting a tool that was designed single-player.”
“I saved my obsidian vault on Google Drive and access it everywhere on my servers via rclone or google drive app on OS this way I can share it as well with Hermes”
“There is, however I don't think this is a good idea, since Obsidian uses local markdown files and corruption/deletion etc. is a real issue for multiple concurrent users. You should really look into options that use a database for this use-case.”
“not a direct answer but i think the big problem is obsidian works with local markdown files, so any realtime colab would need to merge changes at file level not just sync them. crdt style conflict resolution isn't built into the app at all”
“I know Obsidian Sync has shared vaults, but the whole infrastructure seems to still be on their servers and there is no realtime collaboration on a file. Tried things like Syncthing and looked at Relay, but haven't found something that quite does this.”
“An Obsidian Vault is just a folder on your device, containing .md files and attachments. If you delete the main folder (Vault), you delete the content.”
“What worked for me: three notes: raw source (often external, not kept in Obsidian), processed/cleaned source (base for my analysis - facts), final note on specific topic - each one has at the beginning link (if more then I add Sources chapter) to previous one and this is enough. Because I avoid excessive linking this is simple and efficient.”
“That's one of the recurring challenges with the Obsidian graph feature. In terms knowledge management and graph theory, it's barely a one-dimensional tool. If a user knows what they're doing, there are a few basic insights that available that go behind trivial.”
“I've used this practice for a while now, but I'm fairly new to Obsidian. I think I have a decent system for organizing and finding my Obsidian notes in general, but I haven't figured out an optimal way to preserve the 3 references above effectively.”
“I wanted to not use Notion after discovering it did that, and Obsidian is commonly recommended as an alternative to that with many features, so I decided to get Obsidian.”
“I think to make use of obsidian you first have to have language to structure the thoughts in, then you can recall and compare and build from your library and visualization of sound.”
“If you're after more library/management (which if you're thinking of obsidian is a bit closer to what I'd imagine you'd want from it); then its a great fully featured option.”
“It's a quick-and-dirty fix for Obsidian's fuzzy search silently no longer working at 10k links (whether the files exist or don't, whether they're notes or attachments)”
“I am extremely impressed with Obsidian performance. I have looked into how it handles basesand I came back even more impressed. Kudos to the optimization and development of Obsidian.”
“I don't know if obsidian is the best app for it? But I guess you could see what the zotero plugin has to offer (there's also pdf++ but I have no idea how it works)”
“After using Obsidian for a few years mainly to manage work projects, it worked so well I decided to consolidate all of the notes from all my previous tools/systems into Obsidian.”
“I have a recurring problem with my Obsidian vault: I often remember that I wrote something about a topic, but I don't remember the title, folder, tags, or the exact wording.”
“it can handle anything you throw at it- its more assets that'll slow you down, images, videos, pdfs, etc... but you can limit what type of media syncs on different devices (with Obsidian Sync) if it becomes a problem”
“I have around 10 years of notes I would like to bring into obsidian from different places but worry about having issues with so much data in terms of loading times and reliability.”
“I used Claude to go back and review the text and footnotes, and the site was limiting AIs, so turns out the Obsidian Clipper actually is still the solution for non-programmers like me.”
“I've been practicing GTD for years with Todoist and switched to Obsidian about a year ago because it's more flexible. I REALLY like how it's working for me, so I decided to make a basic vault as a template to share with you folks.”
“I have been an Obsidian user for years but... I decided to start scratch because dumb 17-yr-old me kept downloading any plugin and messing around with the customization instead of filling up folders.”
“I write in Obsidian and one of the headaches I've always encountered was conversion to Blogger. I had tried pandoc in Obsidian but it did not produce the desired outcomes.”
“tl;dr: I use quartz. I have a specific folder in my vault where I put the notes I want to publish and run a command to publish. The repo is elsewhere and I tell it where to find my notes.”
“I used quartz for a while but eventually found it to be more trouble than it was worth and went back to just using the Obsidian program as my viewer.”