Andrés Cárdenas

🇨🇴 Mixtape wrangler.

📍 Warsaw, Poland.

↳ Reply to: https://www.benji.dog/notes/1641848261/

“I’ve been struggling with the same. I like Notion but I don’t think the mobile experience works as well as it does on desktop. Trilium is the easiest to setup but I the UX makes it harder to work with than Notion for me. Overall Obsidian is closer to what I need but I don’t want to fully move to it until I setup my own sync server that doesn’t rely on their servers.”

I like that Obsidian Sync enables E2E encryption, but $10 a month for that feature is out of my budget. I didn’t know you could actually self-host it? How are you planning to do that?

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Benji Encalada Mora There's a few ways to do it and I'm still trying to figure out which works best for my setup. Since Obsidian is really just reading from a local file system, you could use any number of application to sync that directory between devices. I think something like Dropbox would work but I'm thinking about going with Syncthing. The Obsidian Git plugin would also work but there is no mobile support. On Android this can sort of be handled with Termux and a cron job. The E2EE gets a little more compl…
- Andrés Cárdenas “Since Obsidian is really just reading from a local file system, you could use any number of application to sync that directory between devices. I think something like Dropbox would work but I’m thinking about going with Syncthing.”

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