I've been doing this for a year now, it works but I've had to become a lot less template driven. Obsidian Tasks is useful sometimes but I had to turn off most of the features overtime.

This started out of necessity when my infrastructure was pulled out from underneath me a month or so before a delivery. Now I don't trust any issue or ticketing system that isn't mirrored locally.

I was able to script Obsidian into my automated daily workbook - it’s simply incredible

Tried the tasks workflow, and I really felt that for this specific idea it was like fitting a round peg into a square hole. It fits, but there’s gaps that could be fixed by efficient graph visualizations that aren’t low-entry for the standard user.

I say this as an infosec nerd with a penchant for silly vimrcs.

Bases are what actually inspired the post. Someone mentioned they were still using their CMS posts section to leave "stubs" to work on later. So, I figured showing the same concept using Obsidian would make for a good article.

Obsidian Bases sure are useful! Will take a look back later at the plugins

Good that they fixed it

I think that was a recent change, then, cause I know for sure they used to allow '?' in folder names. It was such a pain to debug that particular error.

Thanks for the reminder. Syncthing has been working great for me.

And I just checked Obsidian does not allow ? in file names.

I use synctging for other stuff, so for me it was a bit of a nobrainer to use it for obsidian too. I have run into some issues. Notably with trash. It will very often try, and fail, to sync trashed files. I have to put a lot of stuff in the ignore field for all my files to make it stop spitting out errors all the time. I think the best part of it though is that it works so smoothly the rest of the time. I almost never even need to think about it nowadays, now that I've got it all setup.

Just be aware that there are some characters that obsidian allows in file and folder names that cause syncthing to throw a fit. Like question marks. Oh god why do question marks cause so many issues in syncthing its awful.

That's fair, I probably could have used better words.

I’ve been chronologically merging stuff from different platforms as my usage meandered through whatever the Internet was at the time. I’ve had to add time to the ISO date format on occasion to account for entries on the same day.

Syncthing isn't hosting your own cloud, it is just syncing files between devices, there isn't a central file server.

I've done this with NextCloud a few times but I don't trust myself enough to maintain my own cloud.

However, I don't really leave my home enough to need external access, so I've maintained an NFS (formerly samba) share for most of my life. That's been enough so far.

not been maintained for 2 years

Thank you i'll add this in the disclaimer 👍

I ended up just paying for Obsidian Sync. It's not very expensive and I really don't want to depend on Google, Apple, and Microsoft to make syncing work cross platform.

Especially sensitive data still shouldn't be stored this way, if there's a leak from the cloud provider then attackers have all the time they need to look for flaws in the encryption. One example being that lots of people have had cryptocurrency stolen after storing the keys like this.

Be aware that it has not been maintained for 2 years.

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Don't forget to use the encrypt option.

ok

No, I host Syncthing on my own machines to synchronize my data between them on my local network. This includes my Obsidian vaults.

it give you free cloud space?

I use Syncthing to avoid any of the cloud providers mentioned.

I'm putting on my TODO list to do something similar with Logseq. The locality of the LLM is very good feature

thanks a lot!