My sense was that it was a dying platform - the founders had all left the company and new development ground to a halt. Biggest issue is that it's a proprietary solution, so your notes are locked into their format. Sync was great, but of course 1Writer doesn't support most of the linking functionality which makes Obsidian so useful.įor prior to Obsidian, I used Evernote for ~10 years. I had been using Dropbox for sync and 1Writer as my mobile app prior to the release of the mobile app the other day. Is true, as notes in the Spoiler, that the Obsidian mobile app doesn't support Dropbox (or anything, really, besides iCloud drive) for sync. Unfortunately, such apps don't exist on iOS because of app sandboxing. Keeping all that in sync with a third party sync provider would be quite tedious - and this is actually part of the reason why most sync providers don't make a proper sync client for mobile and you have to use a third party app (like DropSync or FolderSync) to do it. On top of that, we need a way to monitor for changes through the sync solution to be able to update our internal caches when files change, to provide accurate links. Obsidian has to download the whole vault to be useful, and keep track of all the modified files (like for example, when you perform a file rename, we might update a bunch of other files for links that has changed due to the rename). Because of this, the OS and third party sync providers typically only provide an API for accessing/working with a single file, but not so much for working with a vault (folder of files with potentially subfolders).įor sync, a regular markdown editor app can simply implement the basic "download file when you open a selected file" and "upload the file back when you press save". In contrast, most Markdown editing apps simply "open" a single note, let the user perform edits, then save the note back. Many of the core Obsidian functionality depend on the whole vault and all the files inside, such as the link auto-complete, image embedding, tag pane, backlinks, and all the cross-note functionality. The thing about Obsidian that's different from other apps like 1Writer and iA Writer is that Obsidian works on top of a vault rather than a single note. Here's a brief explanation on the current state of mobile sync support. Many users asks why Obsidian for Mobile doesn't support their preferred sync solution.
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