I’m wondering if this topic developed into something.
@CawlinTeffid mentioned that he’s using Sync. And Sync has limits to store “whatever”. In contrast, other storages have better $/GB ratio without text consistency that is required for Obsidian markdown. Let’s say iCloud storage. 2TB for $10/month, but slow as hell.
I envisioned the following solution:
- Plugin that lets you add a file to an “external valult”. The external vault can be mapped to any folder on your computer, like Dropbox, iCloud, GDrive.
- When a file added, it’s copied to the “external vault” and preferrably becomes immutable (read-only). At the same time, a Markdown note is created in the main vault, mirrors the file meta information (same file name, tag “external-document”) and references to the file in the external vault.
- Voila! We can store huge amount of binary files “elsewhere”, Markdown “entry note” has a strong reference to the respective binary file, we can edit the Markdown file to add our annotations or literature notes, Obsidian Sync space is not eaten by binaries, speed of binaries synchronization (with iCloud, Dropbox) is sufficient as these binaries are immutable and are synced only once.
Any opinions about it? How to develop this idea?