fleeting-notes-quartz VS syncthing-android

Try Fleeting Notes - Google Keep with wikilinks & Obsidian integration. It sounds like it might fit your needs. That being said, I'm the creator of this app so I'm a bit biased.

I use git to sync windows and macos but I find the iOS sync gets a bit more confusing. So I use the Fleeting Notes app to sync a couple of notes directly. https://fleetingnotes.app/

As I've hinted to, I use it mainly for university. I am a History and Archaeology student an I'm currently in my first masters year. I use Obsidian to take notes in class, make summaries, study the material, annotating books and articles, and everything else that comes with studying. Besides this, I also use Obsidian as my personal journal or diary. I've long been interested in keep some kind of daily log but I never got into because I didn't have the right tools at my disposal. Now I try to make some sort of recollection of my day, everyday, but of course in practice I do it around 20 days a month, not every day. I also use Obsidian for personal projects or things I would like to look into more. For example I am currently working on researching the most well known celestial constellations, knowing their mythologies, recognizing their individual stars in the night sky etc. Another of my (growing number) of projects has as a goal to recognize edible or otherwise useful plants. Obsidian also became my place where I store my 'fleeting notes' or ideas. For this I've used multiple apps on my phone, which include (but are not limited to) Markor, Zettel Notes, Google Keep, the stock note app that comes on my Oneplus phone. But the app that I am now most happy with is called 'Fleeting Notes' made by Matthew Wong. I use it as follows: An idea pops in my head, this can be whatever it is, I write it down in the app, I add a title if possible, done. When I open my pc the next time I use a shortcut to import the notes made and they get placed in my 'Inbox' folder. From here I can decide to move them to my general notes that I can easily look up when I need them, or I can link and move them where they belong. So to summarize: I use Obsidian as my personal Wiki, everything in my life could be stored in here, in practice this is usually university stuff and personal projects.

This is how I came to create Fleeting Notes a note-taking application that combines the speed of Google Keep with the connections within Obsidian. It’s still a work in progress, but I hope to listen to customer feedback and continue to develop the application to eventually become a one-stop shop to quickly capture and connect notes with the option to extend to other note-taking tools.

As of plugin v0.3.6 of the Fleeting Notes app:

I had the same question myself. This is why I created Fleeting Notes. A way to capture quickly create highlights/annotations and categorize them through wikilinks. Combined with the Fleeting Notes sync Obsidian plugin, notes are seamlessly synced to Obsidian. If you’re interested in seeing how the browser extension works, check out my video showcasing the Fleeting Notes browser extension.

Feel free to check out the website for more information, and I hope it can help reduce the friction in your knowledge workflow ;)

Right now, taking notes from Youtube (YT) to Obsidian sucks. To take YT notes, I need to manually copy the timestamp of the video, annotate the video with the correct timestamp, and put all of this in Obsidian. If I don’t keep track of the timestamp, coming back to the video requires me to sift through the video to find where my note is referencing. I don’t like this manual work so I decided to add a better way in Fleeting Notes (FN).

I say this with all the respect to the developers of both Obsidian and helper apps, but something like Fleeting Notes shouldn't have to exist. When someone can build a business model out of a missing feature of your product, something is wrong with your roadmap.

I've got another one on topic of self-hosted file sharing:

- FileBrowser running in Docker (https://filebrowser.org/features)

- Syncthing running in another container (https://syncthing.net/)

Syncthing keeps the files on your PC, Mac, BSD systems updated, and FileBrowser can point to the share and supply a convenient web UI. It works for me, it's kind of like a local Dropbox-lite.

We use syncthing to share files between our machines. It avoids is having to use dropbox / OneDrive etc. You just choose a folder and it automatically syncs it in the background.

https://syncthing.net/

This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement.

Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ?

I have used both for a number of years already.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

[2] https://github.com/schollz/croc

I would use syncthing, which is open source at https://syncthing.net/.

After minimal setup, it just works(tm).

You have a normal directory in your filesystem, that is synced to the other peers (which you set up in the "minimal setup").

I have been using it for years, and it works well. It has no problems crossing os'es (i.e. windows -> linux, linux -> mac)

For windows I usually recommend https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor, but vanilla syncthing works fine too (but don't try to mix them!)

Do consider Syncthing particularly if you are using Android. If using apple iOS you'd need the möbius sync client.

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.mobiussync.com/

One thing that it beats the cloud / centralized sync on is because the connection is direct between devices when the initial transfer is completed the file is completely there on the other device. With a cloud type of sync you do the transfer twice. I've seen stack up on large media or with the structure of cloud services pricing making it expensive depending on how your workflow is setup with inside and outside parties. For example, Dropbox deduction from all parties' storage limits not just the sharer.

You can also point Syncthing at a local sync of Dropbox or Google drive and then forward the files to other recipients from that for some purposes.

I think sync is a non-feature, as you can just ride on your existing solution.

For example, I use syncthing [1] with Obsidian to sync files off-cloud.

https://syncthing.net/

When I was 14 and just getting started, I used Notepad. Upgraded to Wordpad when I realized I loved putting italics in every other sentence, moved to Google Docs at around 25 when I started writing on my phone and wanted to sync with my computer, finally moved to Obsidian a few months ago (with Syncthing for syncing) when I decided I don't want to live in Google's house where they can burn my stuff down whenever they want.