I dream about what would happen if Obsidian and DT got married.
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I use Typora and love it.
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Same here. Typora is really good.
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At a computer, I take notes in Markdown using Vim. When they are done I put them straight into DEVONThink.
Mobile, I take notes directly in DEVONThink To Go.
I guess my dream would be for DEVONThink to be able to use neovimâs API to embed it for editing textâŚ
@Michaell wrote:
iA Writer is a nice app but then again for export you need to subscribe.
That is not true!
iA Writer is no subscription App.
For the death of me, I cannot find a way to quote someone.
Is that not possible?!?
Writing a quote manually seems ⌠very old-fashioned.
On my devices, when I mark text written by another user, a Quote button appears below and toward the right hand edge of the mark on that text. I tap that, and hey presto, youâre quoted.
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@aroddick wrote:
Iâm all about Obsidian, Goodnotes, and Drafts. Obsidian is where my academic note-writing happens. I love the ease of getting both (linked) text and images in, and have some great plugâins. The vault is indexed by Devonthink. Goodnotes is where I go to write notes. Some folders in Goodnotes are indexed by both Obsidian and Devonthink. Finally, Drafts are for the quick notes, some of which may be exported to Devonthink (through a Drafts action) or academic early ideas that may later get exported to Obsidian (also through a Drafts action)
Now that is something!
I too love Obsidian and Drafts (and DEVONthink).
Where do you store your Obsidian vault? Just locally in the file system?
I would like to have it in some encrypted place.
Therefor, I would like to do it the other ways around, store the Obsidian vault within DEVONthink, but that does not seem to be possible (lack of virtual filesystem offering access to DT). Then, I could remotely store this encrypted.
And has GoodNotes not their own propriatary format?
Can DT read this? Or how exactly are you using this combination?
BTW, for handwritten notes, by far I prefer ZoomNotes over GoodNotes.
Ahhhhh 
Indeed!
Many thanks.
I was just seeking some âQuoteâ button beside the âReplyâ button.
But today, I am on desktop ⌠most of the time, I am on my iPad.
Going to check how things look and work there 
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In GoodNotes you can have all pages automatically backed-up as an OCRd PDF, mine to a Dropbox folder. I then index them to DEVONthink (synced too to DTTG) and to Obsidian via a hazel rule. I have one main obsidian vault in iCloud and another shared vault (that my students contribute to) in Dropbox
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Your (main) Obsidian vault is in iCloud.
You index the Dropbox backup folder of GoodNotes with DEVONthink.
So far so good.
What I donât understand is the âsynced too to DTTGâ part.
Do you sync the indexed content to your DT iCloud location, so that is also available for DTTG?
How can than work?
I mean, you modify one file in DTTG and delete another file.
This getâs noticed by DT on the desktop, which in turn changes one file and removes the second file? I mean, in the indexed folder outside of DT?
I had one folder indexed by DT, but I deleted this again, as I could not manage to really import the content after indexing it.
Maybe I need to revisit this topic.
Thanks a bunch already!
Ok, getting overly complicated. Iâlll leave the Obsidian indexing out, as it sound like that is clear enough, and keep to the Goodnotes.
Here is an example of Goodnote note.
My Goodnotes is backing up PDFs to a folder âGoodNotesâ in Dropbox, which is indexed. Here it is in Devonthink
Then it is syned over to DTTG, as seen here.
I donât modify it or anything in DT or DTTG. It is resource that I draw on, and when the OCR can capture my mess it occasionally shows up in searches. So perhaps sync is not appropriate word, as no changes really take place to that PDF in DT or DTTG, if that makes sense?
Oh, and for good measure, here it is in Obsidian after a Hazel rule picks it up and copies it over to my icloud vault. (Alas, I lose the OCR in this step).
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Yes, thanks for the explanation!
For my needs, I would require to be able to add, change and delete items from DTTG ⌠which does not seem to be the thing to do with indexed folders. But I did not really test this.
Still, your method may spawn some ideas for myself 
Well, it seems like if you have hazel and are willing to use tags, you could probably quickly come up with a strategy, although it would depend on what zoomnotes permits in terms of auto-backup file type. Good luck!
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I am mostly interested in syncing my Obsidian vault to an encrypted remote location, like my DT WebDav location.
But I often use Obsidian and DTTG on my iPad, so that would need to work for iPads too.
Need to test around
(And no, iCloud does not fit my description on âencryptedâ)
ok. (note that I just edited the above to add a view of the Obsidian vault with the example after Hazel ported it over)
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Yes youâre right, I was wring in that. iA writer is a nice app. I recently came across MWeb, which looks interesting and clean. Itâs multiplatform and a one time purchase.
My collection of iOS / iPadOS editors:
Drafts
Textastic
iA Writer
Taio
Still in evaluation:
iWriter pro
MWeb
Sorted away for now:
1Writer
MDNotes
Koder
Byword
GTW
iVim
Bear
Kodex
Those may have some special abilities that could come in handy, so I did not yet delete them.
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A new find for me is NotePlan, which is included in the SetApp collection. It combines a calendar-based interface with the ability to enter separate notes that are independent from the calendar.
Iâve taken to using Joplin because I work on a Windows PC as well and need somewhere to put notes that are accessible to my Mac (it syncs with some clouds) and are MD, which is the format I use in DTP. I usually just copy paste between the two applications, but the files are there if I want drag them into a database.
I use Drafts on Mac and iPhone as a dumping ground and selectively move notes or copy text from there into DTP.
Drafts on the phone is more direct than DTTG, and Iâm not fond of using the phone as anything more than a conduit through which to pass things to DTP.
For formal note taking on the Mac, I use DTP.
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Depending on what Iâm doing:
- On macOS : a combination of DTP, BBEdit and Ulysses
- On iOS: Drafts and Ulysses
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