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How I Sync my Obsidian Notes For Free !

Apurva Khandelwal on September 19, 2024

I use Notion as my daily note-taking app. However, since all data in Notion is stored entirely in the cloud, I’ve noticed that the app can be slow ...
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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

I just have my notebook on nextcloud lol.

Not technically free, because I'm hosting that myself and that costs money, but I'm not paying for obsidian specifically, and I even get sharing and a markdown editor in the browser out of the box.

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Apurva Khandelwal •

That sounds like a solid setup! It gives you full control.

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Martin Wright •

I have my vault in Google Drive. Works okay unless google drive (windows app) crashes then I can't see my g:\ drive and the vault

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Apurva Khandelwal •

Syncthing could be a great alternative for syncing your vault. Since it doesn’t depend on an external app like Drive, there’s no risk of losing access due to app crashes. Plus, it provides real-time syncing and version control, so your vault stays updated and accessible across your devices.

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Oscar •

I initially did the same thing, but there's not really any Google Drive applications (that work properly) on Linux. It works very well for Windows though!

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Oscar •

It's a bit more manual, but I just use Github. I rarely need notes on a different device, so it's more efficient for me to just commit, push, and pull about 10 MB of notes every month or so. I like your solution though -- if I ever need to sync my notes more often, I'll definitely try this.

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Apurva Khandelwal •

This Github solution is too good. In fact, I also used to use this method for a long time.

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Shanu Kumawat •

Anything similar to Syncthing for linux?

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FV •

The obsidian git plugin does the job very well.

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Apurva Khandelwal •

Hey Shanu, Good news is that Syncthing works with Windows, Linux, Mac & Android. Go to it's downloads page, you will find all the options.

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Shanu Kumawat •

Great, Also great post !!