obsidian-vimrc-support VS transcrypt

with vim mode enabled in settings, from normal view you can create a new line below with 'o' or a new line above with 'shift+o'. you can rebind with the vimrc plugin.

Another thing I was considering was using this: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support

The vimrc-support plug-in comes with a built-in surround command which you can bind to.

The one thing that immediately comes to my mind is that you need an extension in order to be able to use a .vimrc. I also don't think you can use any vim plugins.

The plugin esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support and the built-in vim support is the closest we can get for a mouse-free experience.

" .obsidian.vimrc " " A small .vimrc for Obsidian vim bindings " " To enable this file, you must install the Vimrc Support plugin for Obsidian: " https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support " _________________________________________________________________________ " ; (semicolon) - same as : (colon) nmap ; : " (space) - same as : (colon) nmap : " j and k navigate visual lines rather than logical ones nmap j gj nmap k gk

You can extend the built in features with your own config using this plugin: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support

Obsidian's Vim functionality is just using whatever is available to the codemirror editor, it doesn't actually have all of the features of Vim. It's possible to get a plugin which allows for loading a .vimrc but again, the supported functionality is limited (i.e. there are lots of vim settings and features that do not work despite being valid in a regular .vimrc). It's not hard to find an example of this either; in actual Vim the movement dj will delete the current line and also the line below it. In Obsidian with Vim features enabled, it will only delete the current line. This is a simple example that has nothing to do with getting snippets working, but it is indicative that the actual Vim text editor and the Vim features available to Obsidian are not the same.

I was looking into secret storage in git recently and rather liked Transcrypt: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt

On the actual system itself (you likely know this as you'd mentioned reading other posts, but) I have Neovim compiled on my phone (directly through Termux), notes pushed up to Github using transcrypt for backups and live-synced between several devices using syncthing (which is how I get notifications on my phone, using a Raspberry Pi and systemd services to implement against orgmode.nvim's notification API).

I use nvim-orgmode on my computer through Neovim, and keep that pushed up to Github (encrypted using transcrypt) but also have a Syncthing server setup on a Raspberry Pi.

Also if you want the notes to be encrypted and you push them to Github, try transcrypt. They won't be encrypted on disk, but will be when you push them.

Start writing all of your work down. I personally put almost every line of code I ever write into github. I have a "misc" project for random one-off things, but I always commit it to a repo. I started doing this in 2013/2014 and its been incredibly valuable to go back and refer to old work (its also fun to see how far you've come). This gets interesting when you start needing to write down information that shouldn't be public (e.g. api keys). You're into crypto, so you can probably see the fun in this. I've use a program called transcrypt to store encrypted files in my git repos. Be careful with transcrypt though, if you make a mistake you can accidentally publish secrets in plain text, and it does open you up to brute force attacks.