Sync iOS and windows 10 without subscription

[wilou]

Is it possible to sync an iOS and a Widows 10 obsidian account without paid subscription ?

I read that it was possible with google drive between android and windows 10.
But how do it between an iphone and windows 10?
Is it possible ?

[ariehen]

Stolen from @Synchronicity

These are the methods currently believed to work for syncing between Windows and iOS devices:

• Obsidian Sync

• Self-hosted LiveSync plugin

• Remotely Save plugin and various cloud services, including Amazon S3 or S3-compatible, Dropbox, OneDrive for personal, and Webdav

• Git with the Working Copy iOS app

More info:

Meta Post - Syncing between Devices

The official documentation for syncing Obsidian across devices is a great place to start. If you have ideas to improve the Obsidian documentation, pull requests are welcome. You can contribute to the process of documenting Obsidian on GitHub. First things first: Obsidian Sync vs. Third Party Sync. The advantages of Obsidian Sync is that it’s officially supported, “just works,” has nice versioning that is built into Obsidian, and is blazing fast and optimized for your vault. The main tradeoff is…

[wilou]

Obsidian sync is free ?

[ariehen]

No.

Obsidian Sync

[zanodor]

A bit techy but after a week or so, you’ll get it up and running:

[Mobile] Automatic sync with GitHub on iOS (for free) via a-shell

I recently started using Obsidian and didn’t want to pay for Sync or Working Copy, so I thought I’d try to figure out a way to sync my vault everywhere for free. I saw in the comments of this post by rsteele and this post from ForceBru that people were able to get GitHub to sync with their iOS device using the a-shell app, but the way to do it was not really discussed. I hope that this tutorial will be useful for other non-tech-savvy people like myself who would like to get their vault synced ac…

[anon63144152]

Not possible to simply use iCloud? Not free for Windows users?

What can you do with iCloud on a Windows computer?

[ariehen]

iCloud on Windows, using Obsidian, is bad sauce. Best avoided. The Discord auto response:

iCloud on Windows is known to cause file duplication and corruption issues. We highly suggest avoiding using this combination.

[anon63144152]

That’s a shame. An idea shot down in flames.

[ariehen]

Pew pew pew

[aidalourandes]

I’m using icloud to sync my laptop and my ipad and unfortunally it’s not that great. Every single time I open it on my laptop, my files got duplicates (sometimes I have 12x the same file lmao).

Since I can’t pay for obsidian sync and I don’t have space on my ipad to not use icloud, I’m looking for a way to avoid this, but still nothing.

[zanodor]

There are threads on the internet, including on this site where they talk about using Windows 7 iCloud.exe instead of the Win10/11 Microsoft Store app, which works without generating duplicates.
I still opted for Git sync, for other reasons; see my reply a few posts up.

[CawlinTeffid]

There are other ways listed in this very thread.

Sync iOS and windows 10 without subscription

Stolen from @Synchronicity These are the methods currently believed to work for syncing between Windows and iOS devices: • Obsidian Sync • Self-hosted LiveSync plugin • Remotely Save plugin and various cloud services, including Amazon S3 or S3-compatible, Dropbox, OneDrive for personal, and Webdav • Git with the Working Copy iOS app More info:

[antonvs]

An interesting topic this. I have only just found this youtube video that has a different approach by using a file setup as a local server. This has merit and I will give it a go. I would be interested to know if anyone has tried this already.

Transfer Data between IOS and Windows PC LOCALLY | NO SYNC OR CLOUD | Obsidian Notes

[alejohnny]

I was facing the same problems syncing with iPhone and Windows 11. I read a solution who is been working for two weeks without problems.

After that I realized iCloud Drive can’t handle multiples read and writes at the same time like it should, so I separate the config folder (Settings, About, Advanced), created one folder called .mobile and set the field to it.

The config folder has a lot of IOPS because it manages how the workspace is presented to you, (open tabs, views, themes, plug-ins), and when you mixed that with writing a note (which is constantly been write, mostly in every key you press, iCloud Drive can’t keep up).

And it’s a good practice separate the plug-ins too, because not every plug-in will properly work on iPhone.

In Windows a marked the Vault folder as “Always keep in the device” and then in the .mobile folder, I mark as “Free Up Space”, because I don’t need it to be synced with my computer at all.

[CawlinTeffid]

Are you saying that after setting a separate config folder, you no longer get duplicated notes?

[alejohnny]

Yes! Exactly!
Even when I’m writing a note on desktop, switch to mobile and return to desktop.