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  • rev-obsidian-sync

    Discontinued Reverse engineering of the native Obsidian sync and publish server [Moved to: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync]

    • I'm a brand new user and thought all this time that Obsidian Sync was 100% cloud-only, so I spent a bunch of time trying to spin up a custom sync solution. This comment inspired me to look more carefully at it, and now I'm a paid user!

    I only wish that https://obsidian.md/sync made it more obvious that you can sync a local vault to the cloud. Emphasis on "You still own your data, no vendor lock-in" is a huge sell for users like me who are typically forced to choose between seamlessness vs. owning our data. I'm delighted to learn that Obsidian offers both.

  • obsidian-livesync

    • i use https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync and self-host a couchdb instance for it...

    this looks like it might be a bit cleaner once it's all fleshed out...

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  • remotely-save

    Yet another unofficial Obsidian plugin allowing users to synchronize notes between local device and the cloud service. Supports S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, webdav.

    • You're not and you're actually reinventing the wheel as a couple of options for that are already available as community plugins. I've been using Remote-save for a while with a almost free private S3 bucket and encryption to sync between my computers and phone for a while.

    https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save

    It supports more than just S3 (as is listed in the README), its just what I use.

  • gitbook

    The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

  • obsidian-git

    Backup your Obsidian.md vault with git

    • I've been using the main Obsidian git extension, https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git. Took some work to set it up ergnonomically but it works great now. I enabled auto-commit and push on save, and auto-pull when you start the editor. No merge conflicts yet between two machines.

    Should note I use Obsidian for a journal, so it's pretty much append-only.

  • quartz

    🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites (by jackyzha0)

    • There are a few options for this already. A good one just came out a few days ago called Quartz: https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz

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