It dawned on me that I can essentially replace Tropy with Obsidian (sorry emacs), which I’m quite happy about. Tropy is awesome, but moving everything to Obsidian (rather than jump between the two) consolidates all my work (notes, metadata, images, etc) into a single plain text application.
@jaheppler I forgot about the plain text side of Obsidian. Maybe it’s time (soon) to take another look.
@jaheppler also with Obsidian you could also publish directly to Micro.blog too so that is fun… 🤷♂️ Sorry, I am very deep into Obsidian now and pretty much have everything there and a great benefit is it is all just text.
@ericmwalk @jaheppler Is it possible to use Obsidian with a folder on Dropbox, or do you have to pay them for their own syncing service pretty much no matter what?
@wcaleb I do pay for their sync because it’s very good, but before that I was only using Dropbox. I don’t believe it’ll work as well on a phone/tablet if you want mobile access IIRC, but you should be able to fully sync to any cloud service. I stopped because Dropbox kept making conflicted copies—which was a Dropbox problem, not an Obsidian problem (it annoyingly does this to me in other software, too).
@jaheppler But I could simply drag my notes folder from Dropbox into wherever Obsidian expects it, and start using Obsidian sync? And still keep editing all the files in vim?
@wcaleb I think you can, yes. IIRC that’s how I started: I created the vault and dragged everything I’d written for the Silicon Valley book into it and started going from there. Obsidian is agnostic about how you edit the files, so vim is totally fine (there’s a decent obsidian plugin for neovim if you want some additional features—I don’t like what it does to the note YAML, but I think I found some way to disable what it was doing). There’s a vim mode in Obsidian, too.
@wcaleb I have not tried it with Dropbox but I would assume that could work as you really only need to point the application to a vault or where your files live. The only issue that you might run into is depending on how fast that “sync” is and if you are opening it in multiple locations at the same time it might not update on other devices quick enough for changes to files.