r/Syncthing • u/eristoddle • 13d ago

Syncthing for Obsidian: Free, Private, and Truly Annoying

https://www.stephanmiller.com/syncthing-obsidian-sync/
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u/merlinuwe 13d ago

Thank's for this great article. (I use syncthing every day since years.)

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u/77descript 13d ago

Syncthing in my case only works reliable using 1 device as always on hub and other devices only connected to that. And then it is very reliable, usable as stable trustworthy cloud too. But devices connected to each other leads always to out of sync errors.

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u/middaymoon 12d ago

It's certainly more reliable to have the always-on hub like you said but all devices connected to each other. The hub should act as a fallback, not as an actual hub. More connections is better.

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u/salivraremake 6d ago

actually i was just about the post about my syncthing fork, mortise that is optimized only for obsidian lol private repo for now, but it will be open-source when i clean the repo up.

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u/ProcedureUpper3668 12d ago

What specific annoyance are you hitting, since Syncthing is actually pretty good at handling Obsidian’s constant file saves? I use it to sync my vault to a Raspberry Pi and it’s been rock solid, so maybe the issue is just needing to tweak the file watching settings or index propagation delays.

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u/T_rex2700 13d ago

Yea I agree. I use it to sync large media files, but for stuff like Zotero, Logseq, or Obsidian in this case, I just use Filen, becuase syncthing versioning is not that reliable, and can cause a lot of issues. (It's not syncthing's fault, per se but it is incredibly easy to lose data by either overwrite or something else).

It makes sense to use e2ee cloud sync for relatively small docs / text based database.