I got made fun of as a child by a parent for doing art and just… never did any ever afterwards. I primarily hang around artists tho and would like to relate to them more, but none of them do creative writing. I’ve read numerous grammar books, so that won’t be a problem, but none really go in to how to construct a sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, plot, etc. I’ll happily take any advice on the subject, really anything you can think for someone with actually zero experience.

Good advice I’ve gotten so far is to just write basically whatever. Also, people who are visual artists and creative writers, which was “easier” for you to become fluent?

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    8 months ago

    Thanks for your answer! The syncthing integration looks good, but I’m not sure about one thing. Would I need to install it on a server to serve as a relay, or is it sufficient to install it on every device that is gonna use Obsidian (e.g. my computer and my phone)? We would be 2 people using it, on 4 devices. I’ve never heard of syncthing before and have some trouble understanding how it works or integrates with the obsidian plugin.

    It’s not for ProleWiki unfortunately haha, it’s for another personal project.

    • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Syncthing is not mainly a centralized service. You would just need to install it on every device and point it at your Obsidian vault. On your computer you should keep it running constantly. You will need to add each device to share the folder. On the phone I recommend Nutomic’s syncthing fork. You will want to keep it running constantly on the phone while you’re editing and limit it to syncing once an hour or so otherwise, as it can eat your battery to have it on all the time. I think it handles conflicts by writing a second file with the other version. You’ll then have to diff and merge them manually in that case, but it shouldn’t happen that often.

      Syncthing is not a plugin at all AFAIK but just a daemon that you run to sync your files. It’s like Dropbox but less centralized. So it exists outside of Obsidian and syncs the files that are in the Obsidian vault.

      • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        8 months ago

        Thanks, gonna have to look more into this. I downloaded Obsidian and it looks really cool but yeah I’ve quickly grown accustomed to syncing between devices lol. 5$ a month for their sync service is not expensive compared to other SaaS solutions that are not nearly as customizable, but I saw they only give you 1 GB storage space

        • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          8 months ago

          I use syncthing to transfer files between devices, upload pics from my phone camera to the computer right after I take them, etc. It’s great.

          • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            I should really finish switching from Google Drive to Syncthing eventually because the options for Drive clients on Linux are dire

            • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              8 months ago

              I don’t use Google services at all, as a matter of principle. Even my phone has a de-Googled custom ROM.

              • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                That’s how it should be done. Someday I’ll have my life together enough to stop putting that off

                • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
                  3·
                  8 months ago

                  It freaks me out that if you’re logged into google, then ALL your activity in your browser on EVERY website is monitored and recorded. If you use NoScript, uBlock origin or uMatrix then you’ll see that nearly every website has “google tag manager” and “google syndication” scripts running. So Google, and by extension law enforcement, can see what websites you’ve visited, what pages you read, what you searched for (as most searches are sent as a GET request) and so on.