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Sync your Data for free on Obsidian (lemmy.world)
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I'm sure that many who use obsidian already knew of this plugin. But if you just need a quick and free way to sync your notes between devices this plugin is quite handy.

⚠️ This is a community plugin - Not been maintained for 2 years ⚠️

Remotely Save - https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/remotely-save

Sync notes between local and cloud with smart conflict: S3, Dropbox, webdav, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, pCloud, Yandex Disk, Koofr, Azure Blob Storage.

Basically the only thing you have to do (after installing obsidian) is to create a New Vault with the same name (exp. "FkyGoogle123") in all your devices.

Then go in the vault setting

Community plugins> and search "Remotely Save"

Once installed click "option" and select "chose a remote service". After that, authenticate with the Auth of your service and it's done.

A new Sync option will now appear in the vault setting menu on the left. Click it to sync your file.

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[–] jello@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

not been maintained for 2 years

Thank you i'll add this in the disclaimer 👍

[–] marighost@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it give you free cloud space?

[–] marighost@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Mylk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't forget to use the encrypt option.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

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.