anyone else thinks this is useful? we can do away with assuming full-vault sync as the only option; this will make things a lot more flexible and cost-efficient !
I don’t need this feature, and I would never organize my vault like you explained, but I can imagine how this would be useful in some organizational schemes.
For example, I use Backblaze as a backup service. And it backups everything by default, and you have to exclude files. The problem with this is that you have to keep managing things like unwanted app library folders that get added as you install apps.
I would much rather define my important user documents explicitly, rather than implicitly carving away what I need. (This was more of a problem years ago when I was on a very slow rural internet connection.)
I also once worked on a freelance project using sync.com as a tool. It also forces you to exclude folders. So other freelancers were generating GB worth of data that were not relevant to me. New folders would be automatically downloaded to my computer, which began running out of space. Whereas some other sync tools allow you to opt-in to the things you need specifically.
do you recommend any? i’m not at all familiar with setting up any of the 3rd party sync service.
i thought Obsidian Sync is built-in and always reliable, plus it brings a little financial support to the operation of the app, so i was just going to use it. no extra tinkering required and win-win
LucidLink was the tool I used that was opt-in. I was only a user on my client’s account. I wasn’t the admin on the account. This was for a project with huge media files. I never attempted to use this with Obsidian. So I can’t say whether this is relevant to your situation. It looks like the starter plan doesn’t allow per-folder access.
yeah, it’s not. thanks for sharing tho. looks like it’s a collab purposed tool.
how likely do you feel that this FR will be considered by the development team?
This would help me in my on-going struggle to have technical notes that I use at home and at work available on my work computer, but still prevent my private notes containing things like financial account numbers, social security number, copies of love letters to my SO, etc, from being synced to my work laptop.
I currently maintain a complicated multiple-vault system that really isn’t up to the task to sort of accomplish my goal. If I could have folders not sync by default, that would be great.
Another solution would be an encrypted vault that only Obsidian could read, but that would be a larger technical challenge than selective sync.
Implementation though is outside my ability to comment on.