I contacted the author of GitJournal on twitter today about Obsidian, and he said:

My rough roadmap for @GitJournalApp is Multi Repo Support (almost done), GitJournal accounts, independent and then spend at least a month on @obsdmd compatibility. Though given that I wanted to complete Accounts and an independent payment mechanism last month, I might reduce its priority.

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Anyone considered using obsidian on a linux tablet / phone ? I’d buy a tablet just to use obsidian on mobile honestly or maybe something custom with a raspberry pi

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Yes, inject in markor can be used for this.? but there is a caveat.
This way we don’t deal with our old links [[ link | description]] anymore - because it is already converted to Html. So, it becomes just a link, without description. If you use a digital prefix, like 6545565_some_title - you can find your links with regular expressions and replace them with <a href="link">link</a>. If you don’t use such prefix - then you stuck. And in any case description that you give to your link after | is gone.

If you’d like to run Obsidian on a linux tablet, for now you’ll need to buy one with an Intel/amd64 chipset. There isn’t an Obsidian build for ARM/aarch64 yet.

I am using Obsidian on my Mac. I am using Google Drive to sync the notes (md, images, and audio).

I am an iPhone user and I downloaded Google Drive app to view my notes (md, images, audio). Google drive don’t let me view md file and gives unsupported error.

I tried few free markdown ios apps ( Pretext, Blockquote etc.) which failed to open markdown file from File app where Google Drive is available as an option.

I used Safari browser and accessed drive.google.com. I was able to view markdown in preview.

I was able to open the markdown file for editing in Safari browser using Google Drive open with stackeditor option. Stackeditor add some config code in each file which is bothering.

I also found an app called Quick Editor - Text & Code which integrates with Google Drive and let me view and edit single markdown file effectively on iphone.

Remember its not full blown markdown editor which show inline image or link etc. It is an ad supported app. I am satisfied with it as of now. However I like to have a better md app with Google Drive integration.

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I’m debating whether to buy 1Writer or Notebooks. I see that just two weeks ago, Notebooks released a bunch of updates to the way the app handles internal links:

  • Notebooks 10.2 reliably opens linked documents by trying to autocomplete their names if necessary.
  • When clicking a Wiki link (or any other Notebooks internal reference) and the target document does not exist, you can now create a new document and insert a so called backlink (a link back to the referencing document). This makes it easy to create cross references.
  • Pasting notebooks:// links into plain text or Markdown no longer produces broken links.
  • New setting to activate and highlight Wiki Links in plain text already.
  • Options to control how smart Notebooks may be when resolving internal links. In the case that a document with the exact title as given in the link does not exist, Notebooks may look for alternatives containing the link in their title, or even in their contents.

Has anyone tried this? Any insights on how it compares to the way 1Writer handles links?

Oh interesting. I use 1Writer, but I’ve owned Notebooks for a while I’ll give it a shot and let you know if it’s as effective.

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Well, how about that. Guess I’m switching to Notebooks. It lets you click through links and coolest of all, if I have a double bracket link for a page that doesn’t exist, it says “create page with backlink” You get a new page Titled the same with an auto-link underneath in proper format that will bring you right back. That’s fantastic.

Not to mention that Notebooks is just a power program period, it has all sorts of endless features baked in though you can use it as a nice looking editor full stop. You need to go in and change a couple settings for Markdown and Linking. Also, I highly suggest using Dropbox but that goes for 1Writer too. However, in Notebooks case, it does not use iCloud syncing.

It’s really nice, it hops around in preview mode, the moment you hit the screen to edit it automatically pops into Markdown.

I’m very happy you mentioned this! Going to play around a lot more of course. I want to mess around on my iPad, but it worked great on iPhone.

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I’ve now tried both Noteplan and Notebooks and both are intriguing but not perfect…noteplan doesn’t seem to really work with Dropbox, which is a shame as that is what I need for syncing…
Notebooks is a little confusing to me, but got me thinking through its “extract tasks” function. Unfortunately you can’t just extract all the tasks from all the notes in one go, one has to do it note by note. However, there seems to be an app called Imdone.io that does exactly that - search through a folder of markdown files and extract tasks. Unfortunately this is not available for mobile, but it got me thinking if Shortcuts iOS could do the same? Can it extract a certain text defined by a marker (- [ ]) ? Then split the text into task name (save the world), tag (@heroic) and due date (tomorrow at 9am) and create a task with these bits in, say Todoist or reminders or Omnifocus? Or even the calendar? Is that possible? Or does Shortcuts only handle a single file?

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Have you tried moving your vault to the CloudKit method on Noteplan? That is really something and tasks will show up on your “Review” pane on Noteplan.

That said, there are still a lot of problema in using Noteplan as an iOS solution for Obsidian notes, mainly the problem with [[links|with pipes and other stuff]] and the title of notes.

Still it’s the most reliable syncing method I’ve found thus far.

You should use Nextcloud Notes!

Thanks, I have but I need it to work with Dropbox reliably for a variety of reasons (one of them being that I’m on a PC at work that I have very little control over, but they do let me use Dropbox). Other than that I quite like Noteplan.

I’ll check it out!

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Are there any iOS or iPadOS apps that support linked mentions?

The linked mentions pane is super useful in Obsidian, but I’m not finding any iOS apps that support it. This kind of limits the usefulness of my vault on mobile :confused:

No, not at this time. This may be the case with NotePlan 3 soon (it is available on the Mac).

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Gitjournal supports backlinks to a note (backlinks section displays all notes that link to the current note like obsidian backlinks panel)

Tried most of these options, but don’t see a reliable way to search across files on either android or iPad. Anyone find a good solution for searching across your entire vault, say if you have it in Google Drive?

iPad=1Writer!

Any recommendation for iOS with Obsidian vault stored on Google Drive.

1Writer doesn’t have Google Drive support apparently (just tested) also see people asking for it on Twitter here

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it would be really cool to split recommendations out between iOS and Android into respective threads?

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