“Obsidian Git handles the background pull/push fine, but the moment you get a conflict on mobile it's a pain to sort out. That rebase approach keeping history linear is pretty slick, I'd use a plugin that just exposes a single sync button and a basic conflict resolver.”
“You either accept the inconvenience of having to rename multiple folders and files every time you want to move something around, or the inconvenience of not being able to browse your files with the same sorting when you're outside of Obsidian.”
“Thank you so much for this plugin - which really does bridge a huge need in Obsidian for tablet users ! One thing I can't work out (maybe just being dim !) is how to export the ink ?”
“You can enable real-time sync from the Remotely Save plugin and it works ok when I've tested it with my phone and laptop (both using Obsidian at the same time).”
“I'm running QMD with a handful of Obsidian vaults, each configured as a collection. Hermes uses the QMD MCP tools for search/query, but for other QMD operations, it uses the cli.”
“I have found obsidian very difficult to use well so far. I also haven't invested the time as much as I could. I'm hoping to do some of that over the holidays this year.”
“I use Obsidian heavily in my personal life; however, I'm about to start some consulting projects and would like some advice on taking notes and tracking tasks.”
“I have tried EVERY sync solution (syncthing, git, livesync with couchdb, built in paid sync), and all of them had issues/trade-offs. I never even thought about self hosting obsidian as a website, I didn't even know is would be possible since obsidian is closed source.”
“obsidian livesync with couchdb works pretty well for near realtime edits, but if you truly need simultaneous multi user google docs style typing obsidian will always fight you since its just local text files. for that kind of live team editing hedgedoc or affine might save you a lot of headache.”
“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.”