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Today, I had the desire to make my Obsidian a little more accessible to me when I'm not home.

Up until an hour ago, I was only able to sync between my devices if I was at home and connected to my LAN. I used to backup Obsidian using the Remotely Save plugin connected to my Nextcloud server via WebDAV. Since I'm paranoid, this server is inaccessible from outside of the LAN. This is normally a non-issue for me as I don't usually travel a lot and phone home pretty much daily. Now that I'm travelling between where I live now and (staying at) the new apartment quite often, I needed a better sync solution.

I was fully prepared to fork over some money for a VPS just to be able to have WebDAV. Then I remembered: that same Nextcloud server has been backed up monthly for almost a year now using Duplicati connected to a Storj DCS instance. Storj DCS has an Amazon S3 compatibility layer. Remotely Save has support for S3 compatible services. See where I'm going with this?

Switching everything over in Remotely Save was as easy as 1-2-3. There is even an option to export settings as a QR code. On my iPhone and iPad I scanned the QR with the Camera app, and opened the link in Obsidian. Obsidian gave me a notification that settings were imported and I needed to restart. Restart, sync, done. It was that easy.

Now ya girl can write on the go! I just need to figure out a way to build the journal (...and then we will be ready to take over the world!) Muahahahahahah.