Comment on Yet another note taking recommendation needed
filister@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.
Comment on Yet another note taking recommendation needed
filister@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
That solution doesn’t exactly spark joy. Folder sync in general is, in my experience, too error prone. So I just stay away from it. Maybe I’ll need to finally give it another try.
cantevencode@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Obsidian livesync works really well. Notes are live synced between my desktop and Android device
github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Well, that sounds good. But my god is that a complicated mess. It’s not working for me and I don’t have the will to deal with that crap anymore. Set up my own CouchDB, ran the init script, connection test is fine. But I can’t get the plugin to actually sync anything, it just keeps failing with “Failed to initialise the encryption key, preventing replication”. Whatever that means. It won’t explain which encryption key or what failed. I did not enable E2E encryption.
cantevencode@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Maybe run through the installation again, and run via Docker if you aren’t already. It was plug-and-play when I set it up
Failing that, obsidian offers a 1st party paid sync feature
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
Well, OK, you got me to give that a try!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 15 hours ago
I sync hundreds of gigs, (if not terabytes at this point) using Syncthing with errors on only one machine (it’s running on 6 devices, including a VM). And those errors are of my own doing, not random Syncthing errors.
It’s surprisingly robust these days, especially for a single-user notes.
I have an indexing job that runs on my server every 30 minutes, saving into a text file (it indexes my media folder, which is about 3TB of movies and TV shows).
Those text files sync to my phone when they’ve changed (so every 30 minutes). They’re always up to date when I open them.
My phone also has jobs to continually sync my photos to home, an ad-hoc folder to my laptop, and about 25 other folder pairs (including NeoBackup) that sync under different conditions, without fail.
I’m currently testing Cherrytree using Sourcherry on Android and it seems to work fine as a single-user solution with Syncthing.