Leaf

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Furry artist, IC design engineer, hardware security & cryptography, 🏳️‍🌈🦊, occasionally NSFW. I post about engineering stuff here. My main profile for art and other fun stuff is @leaf (fursuits.online)
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Show threadLeaf1d ago
@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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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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@Dragonhead Uninstalling & reinstalling Obsidian seems to have fixed it for now. My notes are alive.
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@Dragonhead This is why I never try to do anything FANCY unless I absolutely have to. I try to keep settings default, and to use the most popular use cases. It increases the chances that things will work. I love to customize things but I am scared to because even plain vanilla everything is flaky af
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@Dragonhead I swear to Dog that I hit these kind of exceptions with exceptionally high frequency. I am cursed :(
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@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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@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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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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@Dragonhead IDK. I've read numerous pages on how to set up syncing and none of them mentioned it. In general getting the syncing to work with 3rd party apps is complicated and it tends to be a strain on mobile device resources. So lots of people recommend Obsidian's native syncing because it's supposed to be simpler, more robust, best for security/privacy, and the least amount of strain on your device resources.
Leaf2d ago

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!!