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.

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 days ago

    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…

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      7 days ago

      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

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        7 days ago

        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.