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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 10:24 PM

    I really want to start using Obsidian notes but I can't get my notes to sync across devices.

    I tried to get them to sync with my google drive but no luck. DriveSync for android simply destroys my battery and also doesn't work at all, not to mention the privacy/security concerns. Neither iCloud nor Google Drive seem to have a nice consistent way to sync across devices or ecosystems.

    So I subscribed to their premium sync service and that doesn't work either. Even though I'm logging into my sync account and the individual apps say my notebooks are merged, they still function as completely disjoint notebooks on each device.

    People talk about a steep learning curve for using Obsidian but I'm not even there yet. I'm just trying to get the app to work, i haven't even started actually using it.

    I'm going to venture a guess that basically EVERYBODY wants their notes to sync across devices so IDK why they don't make setting that up a streamlined process. I'll pay money (am paying money), I just want it to work!!

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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 11:06 PM

    Every time i try to do anything related to vault management the Obsidian program just crashes. I thought this was a professional-grade tool!! UGH

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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 11:37 PM

    I uninstalled & reinstalled the app, now it works. Maybe "nuke the whole app and restart from scratch'" should be moved up to near the top of my standard debugging steps.

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  • Luna Lacteajackemled@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 10:50 PM

    @leaf I have been using Rclone to synchronize it with my normal Signal database backups. That way it pushes & pulls changes at the same time. All I have to do is solve merge conflicts when they happen, which they shouldn't since I'm the only one using it. I would like to switch to Unison once it gets packaged for Chimera Linux. Git would probably be a better solution than Rclone, but it's also overkill so I haven't tried it.

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  • Luna Lacteajackemled@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 10:52 PM

    @leaf It's not a continuous sync, so it's less convenient, but it ensures that my laptop & my phone have the same information at the beginning of the day.

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  • DragonheadDragonhead@mastodon.social
    May 17, 2026, 11:07 PM

    @leaf gawerrrr! Now you have me looking into Obsidian as a solution to something I want to do, but now you say it's crashing all the time. :C

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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 11:08 PM

    @Dragonhead It works fine as long as I use a local vault and don't try to sync it to anything. Which is kind of useless to me.

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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 17, 2026, 11:12 PM

    @Dragonhead whenever I try to open my officially synced vault obsidian just crashes. I guess all my notes in that vault are inaccessible forever? Their whole promise that your notes are yours and you control them.

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  • Leafleaf@furry.engineer
    May 18, 2026, 6:17 PM

    @jackemled @Dragonhead The issue (now resolved) was that I didn't have my notes at all, they were on obsidian's cloud. Every time I would try to download them using official obsidian sync, the app would crash. My notes were apparently gone but they're back now.

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