Comment by ppetty | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ppetty | Hacker News Reader

Hi @rahilb, this sounds very intriguing; but I have a question regarding the In-App Purchases: what do these do? Is the app a trial that eventually requires a subscription or lifetime purchase?

I think what Obsidian with recent changes to their sorage sync fees is actually brilliant. I paid $8/month for 50GB, then they dropped the storage to 10GB. So I’m getting a great deal for the same $8 compared to new users & now they have a very low-grade $4/moonth plan that probably works for a lot of people … maybe even me. But going from 50GB to 1GB for half teh cost has me locked in to an extent.

That said $9/year doesn’t seem crazy for this one feature but I’m reluctant to install this without knowing this in advance. Still surprised Apple doesn’t require these details upfront … but these details aren’t in the app store or site as far as I can tell.

Hi, the free version should be sufficient for most users; once installed and configured it provides:

- syncing of vault tasks to reminders (once every six hours)

- completion of vault tasks in reminders (immediately when the app is running)

- creation of tasks from reminders (also immediate while running)

- manual syncing whenever you want (click a button to sync vault tasks to reminders if you don’t want to wait for the automatic sync)

If you purchase, you get access to the following nice to have features:

- faster sync intervals (I.e. your vault is checked automatically for new tasks up to every minute)

- deletion sync: if you delete a Reminder the associated Task is deleted from the vault (immediately)

- descriptions for Reminders: the reminder description includes the note name from Obsidian; soon this will also include any child elements of the task.

- ability to only sync tasks with a due date

Like I said the free version should still be useful for most people. Once installed there is also a description of premium features on the purchase screen.

I’ll add these to the App Store description; thanks for the feedback!

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