I’ll go ahead and start on this one:
After being shown what Obsidian can do by my producer, Neigsendoig, I wanted to set up an Obsidian vault for when I would eventually start doing narration for Cocules Reddit Readings (currently inactive because I hadn’t really recorded anything in a while since my debut on the channel), and making the scripts for it with a few plugins. My experience has been positive for something that’s local-first (which the two of us have been going full-send on lately), and I’m already in love (so is Neigsendoig, in fact).
That’s my experience in a nutshell.
I have been using Obsidian for a long time. Started using it at the end of my time in school and now it is my “second brain” as they say. I have a sync sub and they way they handle it is fantastic. They email a week before the sub is due (I have a yearly plan) to remind you it is coming. I have 3 different vaults to keep a few things compartmentalized. And I just got my own sync server set up locally with the community-made live sync, which so far has been better than Obsidian Sync. I love that even if they took the program to a subscription model I would be able to keep my files with out having to convert them or export them.
Which self hosted sync solution are you using? When I was looking into Obsidian I couldn’t find an easy solution that would also work with iOS.
Obsidian live sync is the one I am using. I just age it running in a docker container.
https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
You can use SyncThing and set the Vault folder as the sync folder between devices
You can use ObsidianGit on iOS, which is what I do.
I recommend using iCloud for sync instead if you’re on Apple.