Discussion

Why I'm using Obsidian

Installation

Document how I installed Obsidian on my phone

Synchronization

Because my laptop is my primary note-taking platform (I touch-type on the laptop much faster than I can thumb-type on my phone), I already sync'd my notes from the laptop to the Pi. Now I need to get them from the Pi to the phone. So, we actually start on the Pi.

On the Pi

• Log into the VNC client for the Pi that we set up earlier.
• Open the Syncthing client
• Click on the "Obsidian" folder share we set up earlier
• Click on the "Edit" button below it.
• Click on the "Sharing" tab
• Under the "Unshared Devices", find the phone you just added in Phone/4. Syncthing.
• Click the checkbox next to it.
• Click the "Save" button.

On the phone

• You should now see a notification on the phone: "Device 'Pi' wants to share folder 'Obsidian'"
• Click the "Accept" button in the notification
• You can now choose the Directory where you want to put the shared Obsidian folder. Make sure it's a place where Obsidian can get to it.
  • Note that Syncthing won't create the folder, only sync the contents. For instance, I'm syncing the folder 'Obsidian' from my laptop to my Pi. When I shared it to the phone, I had to create '/Documents/Obsidian' on the phone and then tell Syncthing to sync the 'Obsidian' folder there. Syncthing then put the contents of the 'Obsidian' folder (i.e. each of my vaults) into that folder.
• Click on the cog icon to the right of the word "Directory"
• I choose /storage/emulated/0/Documents, as that seemed the best place.
• Click on the check icon at the top.
• I change the "File Versioning" at the bottom from "TrashCan" to Simple, and I change Versions to 20. Just in case.
• Click the check mark to save.

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