I highly recommend checking out the Cupertino Theme. It’s extremely polished and well thought out, and made the iOS and iPadOS experience much better for me. I’ve donated to the developer of this theme a few times and I hope they keep at it.
They even released an updated v2 of the theme right alongside OS26 releases to coincide with the shift to Liquid Glass. It’s also built with the Minimal theme as a framework so it supports a majority of the helper classes from Minimal as well.
I would gladly pay for Obsidian Sync, but the maximum storage offered isn’t sufficient for my image-heavy vaults! I’ve had to pay for more iCloud storage than I would otherwise need just to sync Obsidian across my devices. It’s OK, but not ideal.
Have you had issues with iCloud sync keeping plugins in sync or losing data?
Not really. My biggest issue is that syncing from my desktop to either my iPhone or my iPad is S-L-O-W.
I had some shortcuts set up for quick add to a markdown file, so I’m sure that had some issues with my sync problems. Synctrain and syncthing is working ok for now but it’s kind of a pain to remember to sync.
Apple notes definitely is just easier. I wish it had versioning and ability to easily copy a note link.
Wow, I thought I had an image heavy vault combined with all the PDFs and other documents I store in mine but with about 7500 files I’m less than 1GB of storage.
So 10GB isn’t enough for your vaults or even for 1 vault?
I use Things 2, but have just started trying Obsidian Nord.
Me too. I have already 15-20GB on Apple Notes which I used to use before. I think iCloud Drive sync is enough for me.
Not for the one that matters, alas. My largest and most important vault concerns the visual arts; many, many of those notes contain images to illustrate their main points. Without the images, the notes wouldn’t have as much value. I link to reliably available online images when I can—e.g., from a major institution’s website—but I’ve had more than a few notes savaged by link rot, so when there’s any doubt about stability, I download the image and embed it in the note instead.
Planning to be VIP to support developers, this could be alternative.
I have just searched for it and realized it is a one-time payment, with $25/50/100 options. Fair enough and I am also considering it.
Fantastic theme. Thanks for sharing.
Do you keep all documents just in iCloud Drive and then access markdown in obsidian, or do you use obsidian as your “file explorer” too.
I just found “handwritten notes” plugin which seems to allow pdf annotation within obsidian for iPad.
Also, have you found a way to view .eml files on iOS easily? That would be the last part of DEVONthink I don’t had a solution for.
I use this app for viewing EML files on iOS natively.
https://www.matrix-logic.com/eml-viewer/
Simple app, does what it says on the tin.
I don’t keep any documents in iCloud at all.
I don’t do email on iOS or on my laptop, only on my main mac mini.
Thanks. I found a free app that is similar (posted below) that seems to work. I’m going to run this in parallel for a bit but seems to be a viable option. On Mac clicking the eml just opens in mail which is great, and this has some issues but at least lets me open and view the eml file.
It’s been 1.5 months and I am still using Obsidian. According to one of my Bases, I have 320 notes created on this app or imported from Apple Notes. There used to be around 1500 notes on my Apple Notes before switching to Obsidian, and I don’t think of massive migration through import tools as there are some notes that need to be merged or edited before moving.
I use it for,
Features I frequently use:
I did customise the appearance by choosing better themes and editing them. I am using Things 2 with the only community plugin of Style Setting because I need different colours of headings.
I also create hot keys for some formatting on my MacBook Air.
Yes, Obsidian needs configuration, but unlike other apps which will end up endless configuring, I found the customisation can address my concern.
So overall I feel settled when using Obsidian, and no longer read the news from other note taking apps so often.
Just downloaded it, seems pretty good. Although It would be nice to have something like a 7 day trial to try the features from the pro version.
BTW I think your pricing is good and the fact that you offer one time purchase in this dire times its great.
Thanks, trials are hard to do in LemonSqueezy for a non-subscription model. It requires creating an entirely new product, with no connection to the main pro license, and then tweaking a lot of stuff to have a seamless transition from trial to paid.
It’s not worth the effort, given the signal from a trial isn’t effective for me and just would lead to more support volume.
Oh if that’s the case I think that’s ok. I don’t find the price too high to be that prohibitive. OTOH if your app had a cost of like $120 without a trial, then I’d think that’s going to be more complicated.
Thanks for answering.