I would like to use my laptop for note taking in class, and use an android based e-ink tablet for handwriting and diagrams. What are your recommendations for delivering the tablet’s notes to the vault? Obsidian on the tablet with first party sync looks like a possibility. What about another app that can use SyncThing or similar that the laptop vault can turn pull?

  • jayemar@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I use Dropbox to sync between my tablet, phone, and laptop. Dropbox let’s you use three devices for free so I don’t pay anything for this solution and everything is backed up to Dropbox. My phone and tablet are both android devices so I use dropsync to actually do the syncing with Dropbox so that they can be accessed via Obsidian.

    • theavideverything@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Could you elaborate a bit more on the 3 devices restriction? I’ve never heard about that before. What about the size limit? Thank you!

      • jayemar@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Their basic (free) plan only allows you to be signed in to 3 devices at a time. So, for example, if I were signed in on my home computer, work computer, and phone (via the Dropbox app), I wouldn’t be able to sign in on my tablet (via the app). I specify the app because I think you could still sign in via the browser and download files, but you wouldn’t be able to automatically sync files to the tablet.

        The Dropbox docs say the basic account only gets 2GB, but when I look at my account it’s showing 3.2GB with 65% so I’m not sure what the actual number is. They kind of bury info about the free tier but you can visit the link below.

        https://www.dropbox.com/basic

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use the self Hosted live sync. https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

    It works beautifully. Realtime sync and conflict resolution between all the devices it’s on (My phone, laptop, and desktop).

    I only have mine setup to work on the same network, but you could get it to work over the internet, but that’s much more security & proxy work.

    If you wanted to do it all in the cloud. An (over provisioned) VPS, domain, and other configuration would still cost you less than what Obsidian wants for their live sync.