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Comment by al_borland | Hacker News Reader

I always just stick my Obsidian vault in iCloud and called it a day. No additional sync service required.

This worked for me until iCloud started cache clearing all my files aggressively so my vault would take ten minutes to open on iPhone. Every few days.

When I tried to copy my vault off iCloud, the copy failed and two years of notes were permanently lost.

I’m never putting anything of value in iCloud again.

Flashbacks to the time I copied iCloud pointers/placeholders thinking I was actually copying files with actual data. Oh well, who needed those few years of documents anyway.

Funny how Steve Jobs famously derided Dropbox as "a feature not a product" and yet even after trying for decades Apple can't get that feature right.

FWIW it has an option these days to keep folders permanently downloaded/local.

This works very well, been doing it for years. Even works flawlessly for me on Windows using the iCloud client.

Really, how? When I add a new page on my Windows client, it never reaches my phone and is stuck in some weird refresh icon state.

I tried this on a windows laptop and another main machine. I just ended up keeping my iPad nearby.

This gets complicated when you want your vault accessible across linux/windows/android/macos/ipad.

The ipad is the real stick in the mud and I don't want to deal with an icloud staging zone for everything else, or try to get icloud syncing on linux/android.

> you want your vault accessible across linux/windows/android/macos/ipad

For that, I use Syncthing [1] in addition to iCloud. It works exceptionally well – I see my edits in real time across different devices.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

Can this work with a windows or nix system in the mix?

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