One of the things that attracted me to Obsidian was the flat, local file structure that (in theory) would allow me to use other apps on conjunction with Obsidian by accessing the same “vault” (aka, file folder on my computer).
In reality this has been a bit more difficult, as apps vary in terms of how they access files or use file names.
I do use Taio alongside Obsidian on my iPhone and that works well. But curious if there are other apps, particularly on mobile, that play nicely with Obsidian.
I hear about Fleeting Notes but I didn’t play with it
Oh wow, I’m definitely going to try this. My current workflow (for two different worldbuilding vaults) is to make quick notes in Google Keep, and then clean them up and import them into Obsidian all together whenever I have the time to.
I mostly just use Syncthing for syncing the files, and otherwise I let Obsidian do the driving.
This is really difficult to break down because it’s (by nature) complicated. but:
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A custom python script that reads RSS feeds, picks out keywords, and posts them to a special file with a checkbox. This then monitors the checkboxes so it doesn’t repeat a story (still happens but not as bad as without)
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A custom python script that checks a bunch of websites for things like when a new video is uploaded. This uses webscraping and is highly customized to each site.
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This one’s pretty neat: I use Lynx to do a text dump of wttr.in THEN i use a custom python script to add the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases to that text file so it displays them. Since wttr.in goes down fairly often due to overuse, it’s also got bypasses built in so it at least shows me the sun/moon info even if the site read fails.
All that runs every hour, though due to intentional design choices it varies the time slightly to avoid being detected for being to regular.
Then, once a day at midnight, it copies my entire vault to a backup directory and puts it into a dated backup folder.
Since the entire thing runs via a single shell script it’s easy to start up when i do a reboot. very fire-and-forget.
meanwhile in Obsidian itself i have several panes set up - for the updates, the weather etc - that “bracket” my main viewing page + my calendar.
Have you thought about running it in serverless architecture such as AWS Lambda. No reboot required ;) Would love to see script!
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Nothing really. I just use the Git Sync addon to store my notes to Gihub.
I use Working Copy with iOS to automate documentation with git! Highly recommend it: https://meganesulli.com/blog/sync-obsidian-vault-iphone-ipad/
This is great! The app is a bit expensive though but it beats paying monthly for obsidian sync anyways! Love it!
