If you’re like me who use the iPad for note taking in school but also own other devices that are not from Apple, you might have been stuck at the hurdle of getting Obsidian to work across these devices. After trying out multiple methods, I’d settled on using working copy which the Obsidian website recommends. In this post, I’ll go through my setup and how I got working copy to work.
Setup
Git
On my main device, I had a vault pre-setup. I then created a new git repo.
git initgit add .git commit
To commit to GitHub
- Create a repository on GitHub
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/new_repogit push -u origin mastergit remote add origin https://github.com/username/new_repo
Working copy
In order to clone the repository to a local directory, you need to have the pro version of working copy. As a student, you can get it as part of GitHub’s Student Developer Pack.
Once installed, you can clone the repository to working copy. Then in Obsidian, create your vault. Afterwards, return back to working copy and in your repository, select “Link Repository to” and select the directory which you have previously created your Obsidian vault in.
Once you’re done. You’ve successfully linked your Obsidian vault using Git and working copy.
Auto sync
If you want to have the devices commit and pull automatically, you can refer to the obsidian-git plugin as well as Apple’s shortcut app to create automations for commit and pull triggers. Personally, I’d set it up to pull whenever the app is opened.
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