Shout out to Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/), which I use on a daily basis.

It does most of what Obsidian does but has a free sync version where you just use your cloud drive as the storage.

The main thing missing, from what I've found, is that it does do the "notes mind map". But I never really found that useful.

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highphive 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For folks interested, Obsidian also has a free sync option that just uses your cloud drive, you just have to set it up yourself.

It's pretty simple. Just get Google Drive Desktop to mount your Google Drive to your filesystem, then point obsidian to work within that mounted directory.

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wolvoleo 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's also obsidian livesync which is really great. A bit overcomplex but when you get the hang of it it works great. You can even see yourself typing from another connected client. Very impressive.

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dragonfax 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People always warn that this setup can corrupt your stuff, which I understand you definitely wouldn't want to try to share Git via Google Drive.

	▲	ziml77 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Obsidian shows a warning about this. But the only issue it's pointing out is that mixing Obsidian's built-in sync with something that syncs your files is likely to cause problems. Otherwise it's a perfectly safe and normal way to sync.

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quibono 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google Drive Desktop will only help if you're on macOS or Windows. I know it's technically possible to mount GDrive on Linux but it's neither pretty nor user-friendly.

	▲	poglet 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can also use Dropbox.

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tomComb 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Joplin looks great, and is open source, but it appears to have one problem: the primary data store is SQLite, not files, and in this AI infected era having plain text files on the local filesystem is really important.

So if I am correct the "cloud drive as the storage" option is syncing with a the local SQLite db and to get local files one would need to be syncing the local db with both the cloud drive and the local filesystem.

With Obsidian I sync from local files direct to a cloud drive.

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philips 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does joplin cloud have a merge algorithm for multi-user edits or does it just punt and do conflict files?

	▲	bwat49 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		no merging, they just show as sync conflicts

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Onawa 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't it also missing nested folders? I tried Joplin, but no nested folders was a huge disappointment for me.

	▲	yborg 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It has nested folders. But it will continue to have the problem of not being exactly whatever you are using now.