I am trying to do something which I guess is not super common in the Mac world – make OneDrive my home in the cloud.
The thing that I am struggling with is a workflow for plaintext files. It seems clear that I can’t really make Obsidian on IOS work with this – but I hoped that I could at least use Obsidian on my Mac and then successfully create and edit files on my IOS device.
I also don’t want to authorize a 3rd party app to read all of my OneDrive.
It seems like I can use Pretext or Kodex to edit my existing text files in one drive just by opening them in the app.
However, creating is a little bit clunky. This is the only reliable way I have found:
Use Drafts to create a note.
Select one (or more notes) and choose operations
Choose Export
Choose Text
Choose OneDrive from the action sheet
Trash/Archive the note(s) from Drafts
This works but I sure wish it was simpler. Anyone have any ideas?
In a perfect system, I could hit a shortcut, type in a note, and tap save and have it go into my onedrive in a predefined folder.
1Writer allows you to specify external folders as a bookmark and that seems to work for me. It’s still not as straight forward and easy as relying on iCloud or Dropbox however.
I have achieved your end goal but with different tools on iOS that can integrate with Shortcuts actions.
I use a Free Dropbox account that has only my text files (.md) for use with obsidian (Mac & windows laptops) and 1Writer on iOS (iPhone & iPad). I use Dropbox because 1Writer supports it (don’t think it supports OneDrive).
As .md files are so small I can’t envisage I’ll ever have an issue with space even on the free Dropbox tier.
1Writer doesn’t have a lot of the obsidian magic but for creating amending and cross linking notes it works great
Edit: sorry I see now you want to do this directly on the Mac/iOS file system - sorry that’s above my pay-grade
So, I looked at this – “add folder” in 1Writer, but my OneDrive is listed there but grayed out/disabled. It’s a business account, I wonder if there are some permissions that are lacking somehow? I wasn’t able to set it as a favorite / add it as a folder.
I’m specifically trying to use OneDrive on IOS. Thanks!
It looks like 1Writer lets you edit files in onedrive - if you open them from within 1writer – but i cannot find a way to create them in 1writer and store them in onedrive
Have you been able to set your default folder in the settings to OneDrive?
Reading your comment above- I had a similar issue with my personal Dropbox folder being greyed out whilst I had 2 Dropbox accounts connected to my iOS devices. I logged out of my work account then found I could connect the folder when it was the only account available. Logging back into the 2nd account was fine and it remembered the right one- hopefully may help.
Cheers
Fellow Mac/iOS & OneDrive user here. OneDrive doesn’t have proper support for folder bookmarks on iOS, unlike Dropbox/iCloud. Best solution I’ve found is to drop OneDrive and use Git. I think you might be able to build a shortcut to interact with the OneDrive API but haven’t tried it.
Sorry, I’ve just checked and I can’t add to favourites, however, I can browse to it using the Open Other folder and then browse to the correct location. This is also on a work based OneDrive, so assuming that if ups can access via the OneDrive app and the Files app, you should be ready to go.
