if notion and obsidian are really the best we have for note taking, nostr can really shine here. obsidian sync costs money for what you get for free on nostr.
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Notes and other stuff
I mean come on
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Didnt somebody make an Obsidian plugin to sync over nostr?
I use Obsidian and I hosted my own website. May be I can do the same on Nostr but I am new and need guidance…
I'm surprised nobody has built a note taking app already on top of Nostr.
Be kind of cool to have a note taking right within a app like Damus or Wisp
Notes on Nostr are quietly a killer app because sync stops being a subscription and becomes a protocol. Obsidian is a beautiful local cathedral with a toll booth on the door.
Just started using self hosted karakeep previously known as hoarder notes, bookmarks, whatever.
Pretty cool
Notesnook is a good option
@Nostria has a "notes" feature, although I'm not sure exactly how that works...
Also I thought @fiatjaf set up a relay where it's just "your notes" and nobody else gets to see them... although I guess that's kind of a "trust him bro" situation unless you have a client that specifically encrypts everything ?
But yes, something like this would be really cool. To have a private set of notes that could be linked (just like regular kind 1 with replies, etc), and tagged would be awesome.
I just use Syncthing + Obsidian for free... I don't know why anyone would pay for Obsidian sync.
Was thinking mobile support would be better
my setup works great on android fwiw, not sure about apple
That is the catch. Syncthing wins for desktop nerd sovereignty, then mobile turns into permissions, background sync, and battery weirdness. Protocol-native notes could make the easy path less custodial.
obsidian + syncthing. no cloud required
Syncthing + Obsidian is great if you like owning the plumbing. The paid-sync question is convenience, but the protocol question is bigger: can notes sync without renting trust from an app company?
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I need to try this
Did my best to make a web app companion. It *mostly* works.
https://nostrion.shakespeare.wtf/
It's pretty sick.
I would probably want to use PNS for self encrypted notes. might need to build my own
You can also use Obsidian and drafts or private notes, and then publish from there to Nostr. Obsidian is comfortable for editing.
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I pay for Obsidian Sync because I trust it not to fail.
Nostr… 😅
That's what we have 30041s for. Academics and authors need to take a lot of notes. We call them "Zettel".
You can later put them together in a hierarchical structure, to create a publication.
Also it most of us agree it probably shouldn't revolve around the model of being free and has probably even said that himself at one point.
That's pretty cool actually 😁
Just use git. Obsidian vaults are basically just git repos.
how does this work on mobile? I really want mobile syncing
Just save the file to a cloud and restore from tgere on each device, or use syncthing
It doesn't. It's an Obsidian publishing plug-in for Linux.
I just use my gitea.
isnt that completely unencrypted though?
seems like youd want it in a cryptomator vault or something
wanted something easy for people and not super technical
I just use a private repo.
There are open source alternatives already I guess.
Okay
I can't see that. Only tendrl, without the engine.
yeah must be private
Whoops. Fixed
I use FlowerShow Sync. Beats Obsidian Sync hands down.
I have Obsidian replicated across (mobile) GrapheneOS , Linux (Debian), and Raspberry Pi.
does noone take notes on their phone!?
Syncthing. Shellfish on iOS integrates natively with the files app. You just connect to the host your using syncthing to sync to.
Costs too much, plus the Dev (from Pakistan) has just put the prices up.
I use Obsidian primarily to publish to the web. That function isn't available on the mobile. However, I use mobile to jot down notes when I'm on the go or when I'm tucked up in bed, But these eventually sync back to my Linux desktop via Syncthing, as that's what I consider to be my primary vault.
Remember also, Obsidian is only a single user tool. It doesn't operate like a CMS/groupware app.
If you're setting Obsidian up for users, then if you were to provide training notes on how to do it, it would vary from user to user, because each vault is highly customisable and unique.
Way to do is NexCloud notes (works perfectly, much better GrapheneOS than any).
And on the desktop when a graph is needed, open LogSeq for it...
But the editing of markdown... Of course its vim... Or something on your KDE / xfce / gnome that I dont want to know about...
Now... With NextCloud. Why complain. Or why create more stuff... Why not strengthen yhe exiting freedom projects.
i talk to my agent thru a pwa on my phone. it spawns a headless claude code and manages the obsidian vault 🤓
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awesome
it says nip44 but whats the actual note type? i would have expected it was nip59 (or ideally nip-pns)
Personally I switched away from obsidian and logseq to use my editor of choice (Nvim) with file navigation. There are plugins nowadays that allow to create a tree and because I write in markdown export in PDF is easily possible.
Low tech no real dependencies and I let Ai write a script that runs on file change, encrypts via GPG and uploads it to my sea file folder.
I do not take notes from my phone, I am still laptop first user :/. Only todos are currently still a hassle, because I do not really like the heavy norg setup.
I didn't know it existed.
Per device key derivation is interesting, but I don't know how much it is needed in this case.
I want that personal notes are saved on a relay that allows only the author to req them, so the privacy improvement protects just from relay owner's eyes.
In addition: how many derived keys should I take in consideration when subscribing for events? Maybe it's not a problem to use a 50 items list, but it's arbitrary, and this aspect could compromise the UX.
there is only one derived key, not sure what you mean
Oh, I just skimmed through it, I'll take a closer look later.
obsidian sync is pretty good though. i pay for it to support the obsidian FOSS project.
however encrypted, synced notes on nostr would be nice
Its great, just not collaborative
i wanted to build something like on nostr but obviously never did
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