No questions, just thanks for helping with a great product.

It's not super useful yet- you can't really view notes in the CLI but you can can trigger features like search.

I've been using iCloud to sync Obsidian, and have consistently run into the problem that iCloud file container access needs full disk permissions that I don't want to give the agent (or Ghostty). Does everybody use Obsidian's paid sync instead or what? Or SyncThing?

I love that CLIs are getting a second wind.

I switched from obsidian to the zk CLI a few months ago and have no regrets (https://github.com/zk-org/zk). Highly recommend for people looking for something a little simpler. But this looks promising from obsidian!

You can use this to sync changes in (near) realtime and then either commit them to git, or use some other mechanism to increase retention.

It also won't replace Postgres, because that is also a different thing.

I had this happen a bunch when I was using iCloud sync on multiple devices. I think it was mostly solved by setting the directory to “keep downloaded” (right click on it in finder and it’s the second option).

That said, I’ve switched one vault to git and have had no issues there.

I know this is headless but is there any other reason I should use this over the official Synology drive app?

iOS makes it painful to use third-party sync protocols and servers, like syncthing can't run in the background, a git sync service can't run in the background, only iCloud gets to run in the background.... and whatever sync protocol the app itself has blessed so it can run immediately on opening the app.

As such, on iOS the native sync is the only one that works cleanly and seamlessly, and so you're incentivized to pay for it.

There was a little while, when dropbox was big, where it seemed like the future of computing would be "your data is in the cloud, and every app you use can share that data, and those two things are independent integrated through some common filesystem layer".

And then it ended up that no, your data's in a cloud-per-service, where your emails live in googles cloud, your documents in microsoft 365's cloud, your images in "adobe creative cloud"'s cloud, your photos in Apple's cloud, your passwords in 1Password's cloud, and your knowledgebase in Obsidian's cloud.

The dream of the filesystem API being able to expand to clouds, of being able to choose dropbox or google or apple as the owner of your data, and other applications seamlessly integrating with any of them, it died with apple making it impossible to offer any sort of generic filesystem API or even background sync.

And so, that's why you'd use obsidian sync over git, because you're cursed with using a phone.

Unless you're saying "why not pay for obsidian sync, but then sync it into a git repo in CI and commit there to see the diffs", not "why not use git as the underlying sync protocol", in which case ignore everything I wrote, you totally could do that.

If you have automation that dumps things int your vault, that you built with their new CLI (which lets you create/tag docs etc. without running the full electron app), I guess this lets you sync those changes and propagate them to all of your obsidian sync clients also without having to open aforementioned full electron app.

To enjoy the native ease of use and security of Obsidian Sync as a human user on your devices; while being able to automate things on a server.

Does the knowledge graph have a function other than to show off how big your vault is?

Quoting[1] kepano (CEO of Obsidian) - Why you might use Obsidian Sync headless:

- Automate remote backups

- Automate publishing a website

- Give agentic tools access to a vault without access to your full computer

- Sync a shared team vault to a server that feeds other tools

- Run scheduled automations e.g. aggregate daily notes into weekly summaries, auto-tag, etc

...all while having the speed, privacy, customizability, end-to-end encryption of Obsidian Sync.

[1]: https://x.com/kepano/status/2027485552451432936

I just use Dropbox with dropsync on my phone. I never use the knowledge graph anyway