Sunday, January 14, 2024

Huzzah! It works.

I finally have obsidian-git working on my phone. Meaning I can blog much more easily without my laptop.

Zettle Notes

Until now I’d been using Zettel Notes to push changes to my site, it’s a pretty impressive little app, but as a day to day tool for blogging it simply doesn’t work. First because the UX is a bit clunky, and second because I rely too much on my obsidian configuration for adding content.

In the end I was simply using it for ad-hoc tweaks and fixes or, very rare, high friction blogging.

Assumptions

To be honest, for the longest time, I didn’t even try to use obsidian on my phone. I just assumed that the obsidian-git plugin wouldn’t work.

When I did happen to look over the docs, there were some instructions for setting up the plugin on obsidian mobile, so I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. However, upon following the docs, obsidian would crash every time I tried to clone my repo.

Once more unto the breach

Today I decided I wouldn’t take no for an answer. Met with the same problem, I downloaded MGit from F-Droid and used that to clone to my repo to my phone.

Once done, I was able to set up an obsidian vault and pushing and pulling the repo with obsidian-git worked just fine.

So here we are, in obsidian, on my phone, writing a daily note.