What does HackerNews think of obsidian-git?

Obsidian Sync may provide a partial solution but it's mainly targeted at a single user synchronizing vaults between devices. There's also the Obsidian Git[1] plugin if you're working with developers that are familiar with Git, with all of the pros and cons you'd expect. Finally, there's obsidian-livesync[2] which in theory would provide some very powerful functionality; it seems very cool but given that doing such livesync is complex and easy to get wrong exercising a great deal of caution (frequent backups and care when rolling out for production uses) seems prudent.

Keep in mind that Obsidian requires a license for business use[3]. They're a very small shop that's entirely funded by licensing/sync/publishing income and are making a pretty fantastic product and they deserve some cash to keep developing Obsidian.

[1]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git [2]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync [3]: https://obsidian.md/pricing

There is! I use this plugin: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

I've used Obsidian Git.

It definnitely takes some set up to make it work, but once working, it is pretty reliable. It requires an occasional merge conflict resolution, and setting the right files to be ignored.

I love that it is just folder with markdown files.

https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

Here is a way to capture pages from the browser in Obsidian https://stephanango.com/obsidian-web-clipper

https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git will help you sync across platforms

Obsidian has all files locally so can be read offline

I use a mix of tagging and two plugins (dataview and tasks) to accomplish the last one.

There is a plugin that helps automate that as well :) https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

That is extremely easy to deploy Docusaurus on Vercel/Netlify.

Here's a 70sec demo video deploying Docusaurus on Vercel: https://twitter.com/leeerob/status/1554211061284364290

We provide a "docusaurus deploy" tool to deploy on GitHub pages but it is more work to setup the GH Action CI than using a good static hosting solution

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Regarding Obsidian, we don't provide an official integration with it, and IMHO Obsidian is only the "markdown authoring experience". Similarly you can use another tool like VSCode, Sublime or Intellij.

What I would do: - Author md in Obsidian - Sync Obsidian vault md to GitHub using https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git - Setup Vercel/Netlify to deploy my doc site from the GitHub repo

Note: we don't support Obsidian bi-directional linking such as [[xyz]], as this is not part of the CommonMark spec. But I definitively want to support something like that as well in the future, as I'm interested to create my own second brain / digital garden using Obsidian and put it online with Docusaurus. This way Docusaurus could become a free competitor to Obsidian Publish.

I mentioned this in another subthread, but have you checked out Obsidian [1]?

- It's a product, not a service (they do offer their own paid syncing service though)

- It is backed by plaintext: markdown files in folders. As for Git, I'm pretty sure you could use it easily- and I noticed there's also a community-supported Git integration plugin [2].

- Just tested link renaming, it's there.

- It does have a tagging system. I haven't used it extensively enough to see if the rest of your requirements are met, but it seems very thorough.

- The desktop and mobile clients do support full-text search. Not sure how it's indexed but it is quite fast.

- Server + browser interface: unfortunately, it doesn't look like this is the case out of the box, but since the files are Just Markdown On A Filesystem I feel like you could probably just have a completely unrelated server to make changes to them.

- Native desktop app: hate to break the news, but the desktop app is Electron. That being said, it's extremely snappy and doesn't seem like a complete memory hog. (A cursory check of Activity Monitor says it's got four processes running, using 127 MB, 73 MB, 55MB, and 11.8MB.)

- Sync over git/github- again, community supported, but the plugin [2] looks quite solid and offers plenty of the kind of features you might like. I would also note that because everything's just Markdown files, other syncing mechanisms like Dropbox or iCloud "just work". They have a mobile app as well, and seamless iCloud syncing has been the killer feature for me.

- Publishing is an interesting one. They do have a paid service which allows you to "publish" vaults, which basically means they do the static rendering and then host it for you. It looks like their static rendering gives the published version of a vault a "table of contents" pane and other stuff. I imagine it wouldn't be too tricky to do this oneself, and you could possibly even integrate it into the editor.

- So, CLI/Vim editing works like a dream. I just edited a file from Vim and immediately saw it updated in the desktop and mobile apps. Updating backlinks works in the app just fine, but simply moving files around in the filesystem doesn't update backlinks.

- Yeah, this kinda is a whole concern of its own, but for what it's worth: images and media are stored in the same directory structure as Markdown files, and can be embedded into a "note" via linking. (like ![[imagename.jpg]]). So I imagine you could keep them in a separate directory that's gitignored or something like that.

1: https://obsidian.md/

2: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

There's a Git plugin for Obsidian: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

It's not quite out of the box, but installing community plugins is very easy through the settings UI.