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Is anyone using the Obsidian Git plugin or another git solution to sync with Android? If so, How did you get it to work?

I've tried both, Obsidian Git and Termux (I need to try the last one without the git plugin in my mobile vault) but no matter what I always got merging problems (That I don't know how to fix). Does anyone know how to fix this? Does Termux support merging?

czottmann,
@czottmann@norden.social avatar

TIL that there are people making tutorials and explainers for my app, Actions For Obsidian – and that blows. my. mind. 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmyuUUb7AMM

gutewebsites,
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@czottmann ohne zu zögern gleich die L-Lizenz geordert! Klasse Erweiterung für meine Workflows 🫶

czottmann,
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@gutewebsites Hey, vielen Dank! Wenn Du Fragen oder Ideen hast, oder Hilfe brauchst, ich bin hier :)

josschuurmans,
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What makes Standard Notes a great Obsidian alternative End-To-End Encrypted Notes App | Standard Notes
https://standardnotes.com/compare/obsidian-alternative

@standardnotes may have a leg up over @obsidian in data security, and its takeover by @protonprivacy attests to that.

Unfortunately, this comparison page does little in the way of convincing me that Standard Notes can match Obsidian's features and usability...

ymstnt,
@ymstnt@mstdn.social avatar

@josschuurmans @protonprivacy @standardnotes @obsidian Basically everything you listed are missing in Standard Notes. Templater, dataview, outliner. There is a feature request for outline editor, has been open since 2018.

You can export notes from SN, and there is an offline decryptor tool as well, but otherwise they are not available in plain text, which is kinda the point of SN.

I've tried to self-host SN numerous times, but they've also made that slightly difficult and expensive... Shame.

protonprivacy,
@protonprivacy@mastodon.social avatar

@josschuurmans

The Super note type can help produce outlines and task lists to some degree, though this would also depend on the exact use case or workflow.

For the note format, when you select and export Super notes from the notes list on the app, you can choose to export them as Markdown or HTML.

phd20,
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My own #ObsidianMD setup for #DnD and #TTRPG has evolved significantly over the years. So I’ve updated one of my more popular articles to reflect that:

https://phd20.com/blog/my-obsidian-setup-for-dnd/

ghostwise,
@ghostwise@piaille.fr avatar

As it turns out, if you were editing an file on your NAS when a networking error occurs, the entire content of the file can get erased.

ghostwise,
@ghostwise@piaille.fr avatar

Aaand restored from the Snapshot plugin. Pshew.

Went through some fumbling before I remembered how to use that. Since, IRONICALLY, the deleted content is my core file to (partially) compensate for memory loss.

actionsdotwork,
@actionsdotwork@pkm.social avatar

I just released a full rewrite of my plugin Logstravanza, and I think it's solid. It's still mainly a plugin for plugin devs, as it writes console.*() messages to a file.

New in 2.0:

  • Adds additional output formats, such as NDJSON
  • Adds support for setting the output folder for log files
  • Changes output base file name, w/ optional date stamp
  • New settings tab
  • Logs unhandled exceptions in main thread Promises now (not in workers)

https://github.com/czottmann/obsidian-logstravaganza

nunocampos, Portuguese
@nunocampos@pkm.social avatar

🌟 Exciting news! Check out my latest Obsidian Plugins Review — 50 and enhance your knowledge management with these powerful tools! 💡🚀
@obsidian @obsidianmd @obsidianmd

https://link.medium.com/k1Jz1T6ebIb

amerpie,
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@nunocampos @obsidian @obsidianmd @obsidianmd Excellent as usual! I really rely on your posts to keep updated with what's new and usefu

phd20,
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@slyflourish takes a look at for prep. Hit up https://PhD20.com/obsidian if you want some more info on it!

https://youtu.be/jb1rYXl8Ve4?si=8fOqAMqC1bLMtUEj

emory,
@emory@soc.kvet.ch avatar

really delighted that @obsidianmd has announced . i deal with a lot of diagrams and tragically they're often in blob formats. this will help me on my diagrams-as-code crusade at work!

https://obsidian.md/blog/json-canvas/

dcbuchan,
@dcbuchan@aus.social avatar

@emory @obsidianmd Happy to hear there is a standard.

For whatever reason though canvas has never jelled in my system. I find text linking far more beneficial and easier to use.

emory,
@emory@soc.kvet.ch avatar

@dcbuchan @obsidianmd strong agree here, it hasn't quite found a place for me either. ironically i look at diagrams all the time and use an application that embeds / , it's more of a strategic avoidance to evangelize the idea more at work 😂

nicosomb,
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Another reason why I love

https://obsidian.md/blog/json-canvas/

> Today we’re excited to announce that the Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources at jsoncanvas.org.

phd20,
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What else to do when quarantined with the flu?

Organize the hell out of your vault for !

Maybe I’ll drop some random goodies in the comments 👀

lord of the rings laughing GIF

phd20,
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#ObsidianMD #TTRPG As mentioned in my article on tags, I favor tags over custom properties. So recently, I've been cleaning up an old custom property for Campaign and replacing it with a nested tag: campaign/{campaign-abbreviation}. You can see an example in this image.

https://phd20.com/blog/organizing-obsidian-dnd-tags-properties/

phd20,
@phd20@chirp.enworld.org avatar

#ObsidianMD #TTRPG Lastly, two ways I've handled embedded secrets within notes (knowledge that I have as the GM but players don’t yet).

  1. HTML comments. Keeps it right within the note and won't render in read mode or on a website! I'm tending to prefer this method.

  2. Linked previews. This abstracts secrets into their own notes but renders a preview in the related note. This works great with tools like Obsidian publish because they won't show up if you don't publish the secret's note.

A note with a linked preview of a separate note that includes secret content.

actionsdotwork,
@actionsdotwork@pkm.social avatar

About the button issues in for iOS:

I'm very much at the point where I’m pulling my hair out, yelling at the screen. Because just like with v2024.1.1, this EXACT SAME BUILD works a-okay locally and in TestFlight.

But if I propagate the build to the App Store, the buttons stop working. There is nothing in those buttons that is checking for AppStore/TestFlight. 🤬

App Store review taking 2 days every time isn’t helpful, either.

ellane,
@ellane@pkm.social avatar

Please help me find the Obsidian-related toot I saw earlier where a kind person shared some CSS for changing the background of the page when in Live View as opposed to Preview!

Should have saved it at the time, it's going to be really helpful.

mattcen,
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actionsdotwork,
@actionsdotwork@pkm.social avatar

Getting a few reports from Actions For Obsidian iOS customers for who the "Link your vault" buttons don't work.

I’m currently investigating, but if you experience that problem, I'd appreciate a feedback mail via the app!

NikaShilobod,
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Is there a library of general templates for anywhere? Somewhere in the noggin' it rings a bell.

nicosomb, French
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jee,
@jee@hostux.social avatar

@lamecarlate grâce a toi j'ai également découvert le concept des pages "now" j'aime beaucoup.

@nicosomb

lamecarlate,
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@jee Aha ! Raison de plus pour relancer ton site, allez hop :P

@nicosomb

lamecarlate, French
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Lire https://mastodon.social/@kepano/111909950947086239 me rappelle que ça fait des années que j'utilise Obsidian, quotidiennement, et que j'adore ce logiciel, dont les valeurs s'alignent si bien avec les miennes. Allez, hop, je prends une licence Catalyst, pour leur filer un peu de sous, il était temps.

gllmhyt,

@lamecarlate Bon par contre ça veut installer 200Mb de dépendances Electron, ça pique

lamecarlate,
@lamecarlate@pouet.it avatar

@gllmhyt Erf, oui… Perso j'ai pris la version flatpak, j'avoue que je m'y connais de moins en moins en dépendances, je ne fais plus trop attention.

mikewink,
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As my vault grows, more and more code is added too. I was looking for a plugin that would format the code blocks a bit nicer.

I found could Code Styler by Mayuran Visakan.

https://github.com/mayurankv/Obsidian-Code-Styler

It has been running for about a week, and I am pleased with it. So, today I bought some coffee for Mayuran.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mayurankv2/c/8438096

bazcurtis,
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@mikewink I will certainly take a look at that. I am using

https://github.com/deathau/cm-editor-syntax-highlight-obsidian

at the moment. It hasn’t been updated for two years.

mikewink,
@mikewink@mastodon.social avatar

@bazcurtis I am happy with it. It has a bunch of open issues, but so far it has worked really well for me.

emory,
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ugh i can't figure out where the Spaces directory came from and why I have new notes that wound up in there. i don't see a reference to "Spaces" in my plugins other than Workspace Manager and no workspace named "Home" exists anyway.

any ideas? i think i created the two notes it put into those folders either by a non-existent link in my daily note yesterday because it doesn't have the usual yaml cues from Unique Note Create. @obsidianmd plz halp

spinningthoughts,
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@emory @obsidianmd the only plugin I‘m aware of that makes such a folder is make.md

emory,
@emory@soc.kvet.ch avatar

@spinningthoughts @obsidianmd i thought as much but i have not used that in a while; it's possible i toggled it recently but how it dropped new notes in there is bothering me 😂 thank you 🙇🏻

actionsdotwork,
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FYI: The string-based vault parameter (i.e. "type in your vault name") will be removed in Actions for Obsidian 1.5.

For most customers, this won't be of interest, because since version 1.3 introduced the vault menu (which 1.5 builds upon!), the text-based parameter was only available in existing pre-1.3 workflows. Meaning: You couldn't even access it when adding a fresh AFO action to your shortcuts!

davidlohner,
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Es geht um , und vor allem: .

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davidlohner,
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Das ganze Projekt wird bei @dehypotheses
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Wir ( @StefanTSiegel und ich) hoffen, dass euch die Seite genauso gut gefällt wie uns!

Stay tuned...

davidlohner,
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Is there some (implicit like file.mday) metadata in @obsidian files, that I can leverage using the Plugin to sort notes in a shared vault () by author?

I'd like to have a dynamic view on what notes were edited last by whom.

That would be huge!
@obsidianmd

secupriv,
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@davidlohner @obsidian @obsidianmd I don’t know ingress igneous, couldn’t find the plugin either, but does it also update the property, in this case replace current value for another preset value?

If so, that might be the better option. If not, I’d personally prefer 1 plugin that can do the job than 2. But that’s up to the user.

Adding a property in once you leave your note is easy the way. See the image below.

The custom regex will run afterwards, so it will fill the property.

oddward,

@davidlohner @obsidian @obsidianmd Templater adds a scripting language you can use in notes and templates that can access file metadata, frontmatter, web data etc. Afaict people usually add properties in the frontmatter to track dates etc. You should be able to generate log entries for edits, but dunno what an identifier would be.

If you used git for backups/syncing it has versioning with author.

Crazypedia,
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Finally figured out the tweeks I need in to start making it my daily notes driver 👍🗒

Crazypedia,
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Using to document my obsidian troubleshooting is the kind of meta note taking I'm here for 👍📝

philoserf,
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@Crazypedia I found nothing in my note-taking is final. Hmm? Except perhaps delete.

erik,
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The Border theme, coupled with the Style Settings plugin, is so lovely. You can customize the look and feel quickly without hunting for deeply nested selectors in the inspector to use in custom CSS snippets.

And the seamless embed option is excellent if you're like me and use transcludes everywhere. Great work, Akifyss, and co.!

https://github.com/Akifyss/obsidian-border

@obsidianmd

emory,
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@erik @obsidianmd omgomgomgomg check out Shore it's like that old Big Sur-esque theme!

https://github.com/Akifyss/obsidian-border/blob/main/presets.md

davidlohner,
@davidlohner@bildung.social avatar

@emory @erik @obsidianmd that looks very promising. I'm still into LYT Mode by @nickmilo but it still lacks a light mode. I like the colorfulness of it.

I guess I have to have a closer look into Border Theme and Style Settings. Maybe I will create a themed vault template (could that be a thing, @StefanTSiegel ?)

erik,
@erik@iam.reasonably.social avatar

The Border theme, coupled with the Style Settings plugin, is so lovely. You can customize the look and feel quickly without hunting for deeply nested selectors in the inspector to use in custom CSS snippets. And the seamless embed option is excellent if you're like me and use transcludes everywhere. Great work, Akifyss, and co.!

https://github.com/Akifyss/obsidian-border

@obsidianmd

lucastucious,
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@erik @obsidianmd my favorite theme so far

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