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Comment by rodneyzeng | Hacker News Reader

To me, the fatal weakness of obsidian, after trying it for 5 min to realize it, is sync functionality. It only supports icloud sync and its paid sync.

This is turn down 100%.

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You can sync the folder (=vault) with any tool you prefer… including git.

yes but this is not feasible on obsidian mobile app, right?

Curious, what kind of sync are you wanting for the mobile app?

i am hoping, like onenote, a note taking system that i can use on computer and mobile devices and sync to each other, easily. This is very natural need.

I did it just fine for the cost of the license of Working Copy syncing to a iCloud folder. But the Obsidian license still made me end up going over to LogSeq, which works better for my mental model.

I'm just using Google Drive with the files the app uses on Windows and mobile (using FolderSync for Android). I'll probably try out the git plugin soon so I can use it easily with Linux but was trying to use Obsidian without and additional plugins for a while as I'm just trying it out.

You can use the “Working Copy” app on iOS to sync to Git, not sure if there are other apps too…

https://twitter.com/WorkingCopyApp/status/144249988302641971...

Just get the git plugin and create private repo somewhere. Problem solved

you can do this in obsidian mobile app?

Think parent is talking about desktop. On iOS working copy works to sync against git but it’s a little manual

Or syncthing. I already had it set up between phone, pi and PC, so threw the notes dir into there. Now free to switch between desktop and mobile with quasi instant updates.

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