My current setup is as follows:
My MarkDown documents are sitting in iCloud, in the iA Writer folder.
I have added this as Vault to Obsidian.
This allows to use iA Writer and Obsidian both on the iPad and on the Mac.
Great.
But I don’t like to have my texts sitting in iCloud, where Apple can scan everything and even feed their AI from.
It may be possible to make this more secure by using Apple’s idea of 2FA, but I don’t like to open my security to a mere email to reset passwords - very bad implementation.
So, what else could I do?
I tried to copy my MarkDown files to an encrypted file system on my Mac and have it indexed by DT.
Then, I could only use iA Writer and Obsidian on the Mac to access the files, as Obsidian can only access local vaults or iCloud vaults on the iPad.
And iA Writer can only open local and iCloud folders and beside this, Working Copy and ShellFish (ssh to remote servers) folder.
This way, I can have my files encrypted, but loose the possibility to access them from iPads.
I could live with this, but then I noticed that DT cannot read the regular MarkDown tags, as it seems!
Those are mostly written in “FrontMatter” or as inline hash-tags.
Most Apps I use, work perfectly fine with this, namely iA Writer and Obsidian, of course.
But not DEVONthink.
And also not DTTG.
This means, I could use DT only as a means to have my files encrypted, both on the Mac and in the cloud.
And i could use both iA Writer and Obsidian on the Mac to access and handle them.
But without working MarkDown tags, DT / DTTG are pretty useless for handling those files …
That is kind of frustrating.
Do YOU have other ideas and solutions, did I overlook something?
If not, a new option to enable FrontMatter and Inline tags for MarkDown files would of course be fantastic