I’m amazed that they had a release as late as 2017. I think I stopped using it in 2012 or 2013. A year or two before Ubuntu One was announced to be ending. The app itself was pretty basic, but used an XML format that was in theory very flexible. Having sync built in to Ubuntu was also pretty great. But not supporting images, not being cross platform with my phone, it all sort of fell out of favor with me.
Anyway, good luck with Obsidian.
I migrated from an app called Tomboy forever ago to Evernote, then from Evernote to Google Keep and Google Dogs which sucked because it was completely manual. Then I converted from Keep and Docs to Obsidian a couple years ago. Moving from Keep to Obsidian was fairly easy because of Google Takeout, now made much easier with plugins. Converting from Docs was a somewhat manual process, but I’ve basically got it done. Anything remaining in Google Docs is now an actual document rather than notes.
My ancient Evernote content was re-imported this year using a plugin and put into an Archive folder. Since there were a lot of bookmarks stored in there, it’s somewhat handy to have it in an archive folder because I’ll see it in search results. Importing the images and whatnot was helpful too, because the initial move to Keep lost a ton of formatting and content alignment.
There is a community plugin named “Importer” that works pretty well, and you should take a look at it. To force the issue of cleanup, I like to have a property assigned to notes for cleaned up or summarized so I can use a dataview to search for notes missing that property or with the property set to false/empty. That way I can go back at my leisure to clean up, summarize, tag, link, etc.
I have a note called Random that I use to drop content that doesn’t need to be in a note, it won’t live a long lifetime, just scratch pad stuff. That one gets an entry multiple times a day.
Otherwise it’s whatever note(s) I have for a currently running project. Parts list, decision notes, tests run and their status.
I’m always tempted, just because of versioning. But I’m having good enough luck with my existing sync method that I’m just barely on the edge of not signing up. A little lower price, and this would be a no brainer. If you don’t already have a sync strategy, this seems like a good time to sign up!
Then syncthing is probably what you want. It’s not a cloud solution, it directly syncs content between devices you connect. And it’s free.
Good luck, no matter the solution you land on!
Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud, and SyncThing are all options that work pretty well.
I use Syncthing on Mac laptops, Android phones, and Linux servers for the same Obsidian vault.
Flat out, I will never buy another item from QNAP. Ever. Their “support” is a joke, and their only fix for hardware that doesn’t work on “supported” OS due to old firmware is to return it and hope to get a new one with a new firmware that actually works. Like, WTF? And “supported” here means they have some old, janky, partially functional Linux app that ran on an Ubuntu desktop once upon a time. No headless system support for a server attached product. And really, they want you running it on a Windows desktop.
Beyond that, the physical hardware itself was super generic gear. I was unimpressed with paying a premium after friends all recommended QNAP, and I got what was basically a child’s toy that they didn’t expect a professional to be using.
As for multi-gig router, if you’re doing dynamic, addressing and masquerading then I can recommend the unified dream machine pro. The second edition is more capable, and has a faster backplane between the 10 gig land and land ports and the one gig ports. The original dream machine pro that I have does not have that feature, and it’s sorely missed.
If you need to do any complex routing, or static addressing then things get a little more wonky. Wonky. Very obviously does not expect this device to be a real router, but rather than that and masquerade gateway for a small business office. It totally works, and I’ve had mine for a few years now, but it’s just something to be aware of.
Mikrotik also makes a 10g router device, as do a couple other companies. They’ll expect you to be a bit more experienced, though. I’m not sure what your skill level is, but they are options at least.
Edit: you want an sfp+, btw. An sfp only does 1gbit, an sfp+ does 10gbit, and qsfp does 25+ gbit. https://www.black-box.eu/en-int/page/45646/Resources/technical/Black-Box-Explains/lan/SFP-vs-QSFP-What-s-the-difference
For some types of metadata, I’ve used dataview to make a list of notes missing the key fields I want, then I can go back from time to time when I’m bored, and add the new data.
I also use this to summarize things like meeting notes after a day or so to digest what I heard.
Odysey isn’t Starbuck’s loyalty program, it’s invite only unless you want to join the wait list, and it’s openly called an experiment at its launch in December 2022.
NTFs are different to blockchain, so you’re just muddying the waters for yourself with the Walmart thing. Lots of companies do chain of custody things with what you’d call blockchain. It’s been that way for over a decade now. Because it’s low transaction volume, no moronic “proof of…” nonsense, etc. Just hashes signing hashes at different points throughout the supply chain.
This isn’t the “win” the NFT hype weirdos are desperately hoping for.
Yep. Spot on. If they can raise VC money and walk away with someone else’s cash in their pocket, they’ll say whatever buzz word they need to.
None of those things took 60 years to still not materialize like AI has. Some of them are still to be commercially successful.
We have absolutely nothing similar to the classical definition of intelligence. We have probability calculation based on millions of examples.
A single airline in Argentina is experimenting with it in partnership with a bullshit travel company. Hardly the proof that NFTs make any sense anywhere. And of course, the only places this story is getting traction is the blockchain hype blogs, which is red flag #2 and #3.
As a counter to your example, this is my career’s third AI hype cycle.
Before this is was blockchain, and before that it was “AI”, and before that…
For a while I had daily notes that had a dataview linking to other notes created on the same day as the daily note, then I had a weekly note that linked to all my daily notes created during that week number. The note itself was a place to centralize links to other notes, jot down what was going on, stuff like that.
In the end, it was creating more work than I wanted to do and I wasn’t finding myself going back to review those daily or weekly notes. When I’m creating notes I never look at again, I know I’m wasting my time.