DannyQuah

Obsidian iPad syncing via iSH git

by Danny Quah, Jan 2022

This gist describes using Obsidian on iPad while syncing to other Obsidian platforms. The procedure uses git in iSH on iOS, and thus differs from using either Obsidian Sync or Working Copy as described in Obsidian/iOS+app.

(To be clear, Obsidian is one of my favourite Apps, and I'm all for supporting the team financially. Moreover, everything I've heard suggests the paid Obsidian Sync is excellent. However, I don't want my syncing processes to proliferate --- each service using a different client sync flow --- so I keep my systems minimal: just syncthing and git. After writing this I found an Obsidian Forum writeup which uses the same tools I do to achieve the same goal, but you'll want to read that with its accumulated contributions dispersed across the comments. So at least I was thinking

miguelgrinberg

" plugins
let need_to_install_plugins = 0
if empty(glob('~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim'))
    silent !curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
        \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
    let need_to_install_plugins = 1
endif

call plug#begin()
Plug 'tpope/vim-sensible'

cdaven

Install Emacs First

Download emacs-w64 and extract somewhere, e.g. a tools or apps folder like C:\Users\<user>\tools\emacs.

Select Emacs' Home

Emacs and many other applications store its configuration in the user's "home" folder. Translated directly from the Unix world, that is %UserProfile% (C:\Users\<user>), but Windows prefers %AppData% instead (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming).

For simplicity's sake, override this by specifying the HOME environment variable explicitly. Emacs and some other applications (e.g. MinGW) lets this override the default.