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> But I felt frustrated when I wanted to access my notes on my phone while on-the-go and saw that I had to pay for this feature. Obsidian charges $8 a month to access the same notes across multiple devices.

Errm, no? Obsidian sync is optional. I pay for it to support them, but my main vaults are all synced by iCloud, which was auto set-up by Obisidan during initial setup on my iPhone.

On the Android side, any service which can sync files can work, I assume.

Note: Yes, I use Obsidian on my phone without sync, all the time, and it syncs.

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Not practical if you want to also sync with non-Apple devices.

I think any app which can sync in the background can automatically sync things? Dropbox, Moebius, PCloud, Google Drive?

My Office vault lives in a separate cloud service, and it works?

My understanding is that on iOS your only non-paid choice is iCloud, and iCloud doesn’t reliably sync to non-Apple systems. To clarify, the use case here is that you have an iPhone but also non-Apple systems, which is a fairly common scenario.

TBH that sounds like a better reason to get something other than Apple systems instead of changing all your apps to work around Apples bizarre limitations.

To clarify, by “on iOS your only non-paid choice is iCloud” I meant for the Obsidian app specifically. Other apps do provide the option to sync with non-Apple cloud storage, without payment.

There are multitudes of pros and cons regarding choosing an iPhone. The restrictions of the Obsidian app is only a single one of those. Choosing an Android phone has drawbacks of its own.

Obsidian lets you pick any folder you want when setting up the notebook, so you could put it in any of your synced folders right?

Or does the iOS version of Obsidian do things differently?

The iOS version asks you whether you want to store your vault in iCloud or not only.

However, if you don't store your vault in iCloud, it creates an Obsidian folder inside the area which can be accessed by Files app (as I just checked), which means, any application having files integration can access and sync that folder.

Even if you store your vault in iCloud, it's still accessible by any app which offer files integration [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972056

iCloud is not the only alternative to Obsidian Sync on iOS. There are also several Obsidian plugins that allow you to sync to a variety of services.

Then use the git-sync plugin, or many of the others mentioned here.

FWIW there is iCloud on Windows [0]. There seems to be some Linux options, but nothing official, so it seems like it'd be a lot more effort there. Also no official Android app it seems.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/what-is-iclou...

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