I’ve been using Obsidian for my note taking for a little while and I love it. I love you can just do a quick [[[other note]]] and it will link to the other note. I love that the full thing is just in markdown files, so that I can have full control; even if Obsidian were to disappear.

The one thing that is a little frustrating for me is getting my notes synced between my desktop, laptop, and phone. I have tried using syncthing to just sync the markdown files directly and it worked pretty well. But, it seems a bit overkill on my phone. I think I’d rather move to a single server that I can connect them to and they can sync from there.

I have looked into a few plugins. I saw that there a git one. I am a developer. So, that seems like the natural way for me to do it. But, I also saw a post on reddit where they suggested webdav. Which might be closer to what I want. I don’t need it to be where I can type on two devices and have the stuff sync super fast or something. I just want to type my notes, close the app, and when I open it on a different device; I want it to have my latest notes ready for me.

What are you personally using for Obsidian? I’d love to hear from other people here. I don’t want to pay for Obsidian’s subscription service. I want to host it myself.

  • layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I really appreciate the time you took to help me but seriously there is always issues even when it’s supposed to be simple/basic. Nevertheless I am in the mood to be wrong and pleasantly surprised so I follow your instructions. (Spoiler: It doesn’t work. But I am not trying to request further help about this, because I am fairly resigned to the situation. I am just showing you, that I tried.)

    I already had docker and docker-compose installed; I was already in the docker group; and the service was already active per systemctl. I guess from last time I tried this (not too long ago). Create directory, file etc.

    $ docker compose up
unable to get image 'zefhemel/silverbullet': Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///home/username/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

    So I find Troubleshooting the Docker daemon | Docker Docs. It has several methods to find out if docker is even running which now I am confused about.

    reports as inactive: # systemctl is-active docker, # systemctl status docker.service, $ docker info

    report as active: $ systemctl status docker.service, # systemctl is-active docker,
    $ systemctl is-active docker, # docker info

    $ env | grep DOCKER_HOST and # env | grep DOCKER_HOST have no output.

    ps aux | grep docker and top | grep docker tell me dockerd is running by root. So I think maybe I need to start it as a regular user for this exercise?

    Found Start the daemon | Docker Docs which advises the use of dockerd either with or without sudo depending on environment.

    normal user:

    Starting up
dockerd needs to be started with root privileges. To run dockerd in rootless mode as an unprivileged user, see https://docs.docker.com/go/rootless/

    Oh it needs to be root. OK, try again with sudo:

    Starting up
failed to start daemon, ensure docker is not running or delete /var/run/docker.pid: process with PID 3952 is still running

    So it is running? 3952 was pid reported by top and ps. It is running. But it’s not running.

    Who knows… honestly this is how it goes every time. Maybe I am running services wrong… maybe I set something up last time because I was trying to solve another problem and it was suggested and that thing is now causing me am issue. I could chase my tail on this all week.

    Like I said I completely believe everyone that once you’re rolling with it, it’s great. I’m happy for everyone who is able to access this. I will continue to live without it for the time being.