You’re right, I wasn’t thinking about the android app when writing this.

Ale we talking about the same thing?

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

Yeah, works nice as long as you have a server to host it on.

The only annoyance is that it’s not very space efficient and you have to rebuild your database like twice a year to bring the size back down. It might be not that bad depending on what you do. I create above thousand new lines of notes with a lot of pictures every day and I’m at around 2GB after rebuilding the database. I expect it to go up to like 6GB biyearly, but, again, clicking on the rebuild button deals with that.

Have you seen the community-made self hosted sync plugin?

There in fact are FOSS alternatives like Joplin. Personally, I actually switched from Joplin to Obsidian due to a larger community (and therefore community-driven plugins) and overall a more polished UX. That being said, I have the security of switching back if Obsidian ever becomes evil or unusable.

Another aspect is that the entire source code is technically viewable (partially obfuscated) since it’s a web app. Having written plugins for Obsidian, you’re very much interacting with the source code itself. Feels like open source with extra steps and I wish one day they will finally make the switch to true FOSS.

It looks so flimsy. The size of the keyboard compared to the screen feels like it would be nearly impossible to type on it with the thumbs comfortably and without the phone falling out of your hand.

Edit: Oh no, I just noticed that’s a case. Than makes it even worse. I would not trust that thing to hold my phone in place.

No better time to get into self hosting!

/r/programming

There’s your culprit

How exactly does NAT prevent that? On good hardware it adds insignificant latency.

Doesn’t Bitwarden already have that feature? https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/