I spent so much time customizing my Obsidian, to support proper code blocks, syntax and wide content… Then my hard-drive went bye bye.
I invested in the Obsidian Cloud Sync. It’s nice to have an Inbox vault to capture things wherever I am (even offline) and then transfer items to the work or personal vault.
I could not live without it now. I spent the extended education weekend at Insights building some automation to make Claude do the heavy lifting in ingesting and indexing, and now it’s even better. It also auto-notates all my AI sessions now into the appropriate project folder. That loop is also reinforced by a Claude.md change that makes Claude read the project document and the last session note on each new session. Context management much improved.
I host mine in my OneDrive, but the simplest backup suggestion I have heard is just using github.
For anyone interested, this was the key component to get it to work the way I wanted: GitHub - cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-server: Obsidian vaults MCP server - read, write, search, and surgically edit notes, tags, and frontmatter via the Local REST API plugin. · GitHub
Offline is the one thing my setup lacks for sure. I might have to look into that.
I don’t mind paying for the service to support them. What they give away for free is amazing really.
That syncs to mobile too, right? The one scenario I didn’t have a quick answer for is when my PC is off and I find a document on my phone that I want to capture. I can’t send that to the vault because the vault is offline. Also Android OneDrive seems to be, well, not good.
Yep, any Obsidian app will sync. Syncs notes, settings, plugins, etc., with toggles for what you want to sync and don’t (e.g. images or video). Even has some conflict resolution, but not sure how well it works since I don’t take notes on multiple devices enough to worry.