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If you want to push them for Obsidian support, take 5 mins and put that into their user survey…

https://ux.myscript.com/

I just put it into all the “what apps do you use for” sections that were appropriate, and I think there was also a free text section where I put “better MD export support” into, from memory…

I hear you on the obsidian vault costs, but for what it saves me in hassle I ended up going the full license, with 10 vaults… I have one for home, one for work, one for testing obsidian plugins/new tricks, and my also kid uses one for school…

So far, bulletproof, and individual crypto keys for vaults means separation between church/state/school is maintained…

The sync handles simultaneous editing on phone/laptop so that’s golden.

I alsu use nebo for handwritten notes on my android tablet, and export text to my daily note. (Just wish it exported MD properly! 🫤)

Oh, I totally get it… I’ve been in the same place many times (and I’m sure I will be again…)

I just have a policy of trying to support these things whenever I’m able to, otherwise I feel I’m not able to grumble when privacy respecting apps disappear from existence through lack of financial support…

For what it’s worth, I ended up choosing the obsidian sync service. While it goes against my “self host everything” mantra, I do also want to support software makers who make great products that respect peoples privacy. As such, I decided the $8/m investment was warranted.

My son in highschool uses Obsidian for all his school note taking, so he actually is able to use the same sync subscription… As each vault has separate keys, there’s no privacy issues between us…

My favourite part of this solution is it supports live update from multiple devices at once, so I have the vault open on phone, tablet, home laptop and work laptop simultaneously, and it just works…

Just thought it was worth sharing.

Yeah. I’m grandfathered in on a $90/yr plan for inbound which is workable.

DuoCircle but I’ve just checked and the service I pay $90/year for is now $50/month, which is bananas for my low email volumes.

I aplaud the write up and recognise that the OP has developed a solution that suits their use case.

Personally I started running my own mail around the same time, but host for several family members at the same time.

I went a slightly different route and pay for a mail filtering service for inbound filtering and outbound relay. All up costs me $90USD per year for inbound and $4 a month for outbound

This has solved most blacklist and outbound mail server reputation issues.

I used to run zarafa till they went commercial. I’ve since migrated to Mailinabox as a platform. Its pretty resilient. (I’ve just disabled greylisying and spam detection as I’ve got upstream MX filtering already) I’ve also recently been through a MiaB major upgrade - it was pretty simple once I actually read the instructions properly!

First macbook air was ethereal, nas was bitbucket, first macbook pros deathstar then dreadnaught, second bigger nas was abyss…

More recently I’ve been using Neal Stevenson characters and themes.

Mobile wass “primer”, high spec laptop was “reason”, workhorse laptop was “chevaline”…

Work servers I’ve always liked two themes:

Chaos or medications:

Anarchy, bedlam, disturbed, chaos, mayhem, futility, entropy, maelstrom,

Sudafed, NyQuil, Tylenol, advil, codeine, morphine, panadol, Valium,

Self host with mail-in-a-box

https://mailinabox.email/