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* typewriter mode so that all the text you are entering remains centred in the middle of the screen so that new lines move up and your eye can always remain on the same line at all times (without needing to look up or down in the screen), and * monospace fonts using iA Writer Mono or something comparable,

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* the ability to go full screen without any UI elements to distract from the text, The instructions which follow setup Obsidian v.0.14.5 so that it mimics the Typora/iA Writer environment and features that have made markdown so compelling.

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Obsidian distraction free on the desktop Setting up Obsidian to run on desktop and Android and sync between devices Default installations don’t provide this, hence the guide. The purpose of this blog entry is to provide an easy to use guide to customise Obsidian to replicate the iA Writer/Typora experience on the desktop and Android and to permit automatic syncing between all devices. Keep watch of any news on plugin security, however, as I will be using two. There is some security risk with third party plugins so one must be careful but I will set the steps I took to get started. There is also a rich ecosystem of themes and community plugins. Obsidian is quite a stunning achievement. Once you learn Obsidian on the desktop it is almost exactly the same on Android.

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The code base on Android also seems to be a near exact duplicate of the desktop. Notably, Obsidian seems to be extremely reliable in its file handling (Ghostwriter threw up frequent messages when dealing with NAS files and Typora had issues as well).

obsidian folder which stores all the various customisations and by default all devices will sync to that folder (so that changes on one device will affect the other devices). Obsidian on Windows and Debian has proven to be the most reliable markdown editor I have tried (and the most customisable). Any changes to the folder from the desktop get synced to Android and visa versa. Thus, for the first time, one has access to the NAS folder as if it were a local folder so that the Android version works like the Windows or Debian version. That then opens up the ability to select the local Android folder as the Obsidian vault. Because of Obsidian’s vault model, that meant that anything I stored in Android was locked as Obsidian cannot use an off device vault (there was an Obsidian sync feature for a fee but I wanted more control over my data).īut now, using the Synology Drive beta, one can specify any folder(s) in your NAS to sync locally to your Android device (you have to ensure the NAS is up to date to handle the Drive beta–DSM 7.0.1 works for example). Before the Synology Drive beta, there really wasn’t a reliable and secure solution that could enable syncing of a remote folder locally to the Android device (that I could find).

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From Android, you want to do the same without further steps, manual copying, manual connection initiation each time you want to edit, and so forth. From the desktop you want to simply open the file as normal. Ideally, one would want to store and edit markdown files from a folder of your choosing on your NAS without further work on your part.

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The version for Android is not much better and has crippling file management limitations. Access to other services is still not mature in iOS. Being able to smoothly access only iCloud from within iA Writer is not worthwhile if it is in a silo and cannot be synced to the NAS automatically (like most cloud services). Even NAS connections had to be refreshed and at the end of the day it was a manual process that imposed unnecessary friction. If you are not using iCloud the connections to other cloud services are clunky and unreliable. Even on iOS the file management limitations are maddening, to say the least. IA Writer, which I mentioned in a previous blog entry ( iA Writer impressions – Felix qui nihil debet ()), is a beautiful and compelling markdown editor, but it is mainly for iOS. This barrier meant that one was reliant on an individual app’s file management features (which in the case of iA Writer, the best markdown editor on Android, was, and continues to be, an unreliable and difficult to use proposition with severe limitations).

Before the introduction of the Synology Drive beta, it was not possible to realistically sync a NAS folder of your choosing on to your Android device and have all changes sync back and forth without further action. A breakthrough in Android took place very quietly within the Synology NAS ecosystem which has finally opened up the ability to use the excellent markdown editor Obsidian on Android properly.