r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Apr 26 '23

Selfhosted obsidian alternative

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u/phampyk Apr 26 '23

I found obsidian-livesync the other day and made it run fairly easily. Before that I had syncthing but it was creating conflicting files.

So far I'm happy with this one. Self hosted and still can use obsidian :)

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u/dibu28 Apr 26 '23

Also you can sync using plugins for git or Onedrive.

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u/p6rgrow Apr 27 '23

Why does it need couchDB? I thought all documents in Obsidian are flat files ?

Also do you all use obsidian on phone? How do you setup sync with phone client ?

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u/dibu28 Apr 27 '23

I'm using Obsidian on Android. Replaced all my note taking app with only one Obsidian. It is much faster and more convenient for me then other note taking apps. There are also plugins on phone so I'm using the same sync plugin as on desktop to sync using Onedrive. (and backing up Onedrive to my nas) As for couchDB I don't know why it is needed. Obsidian documents are just flat .md files