Hi IQ Users!
IQ has had Evernote sync for 3 years now. Rich text only at first, then Tags sync was added. Image sync is still in development.
Two weeks ago, EN announced that their Free plan was being phased out (limited to just 50 notes!). This could significantly impact IQ users.
What alternatives, if any, would you consider? Obsidian naturally comes to mind... anything else? Logseq perhaps? anything better?
Please comment!
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
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I've spent some time…
I've spent some time thinking about this and Obsidian may be your best bet. The core software is free, and your data is local, so they can't turn around and impose file limits later. You have to pay for their sync, which I don't do - I use FolderSync on Android as my sync solution and it works fine.
Why Obsidian? No software matches all the features of InfoQube, but Obsidian could sync more data elements than other options like LogSeq or Notion can. Although LogSeq and Notion have a block structure, I believe neither of them can do a nested outline and properties for each block simultaneously.
How to set up Obsidian?
I haven't thought about how two-way sync would handle changes made in Obsidian back to IQ, as Obsidian will allow you to add properties on the fly, that would then lack fields in IQ. And if you change the text in an Obsidian "grid" page, how that would translate back if the source grid in IQ has sorting and filtering applied.
Would I use this if it existed? I'm not sure. Since Obsidian is local on my PC next to InfoQube, if I wanted to manage info in Obsidian I would use the native Obsidian program. But then again, I never used the Evernote sync either, so it would be good to get input from people who actually do this and tailor the solution for them, not for me. I'm sharing this as food for thought for this community, since I love using InfoQube and want to inspire others to have good ideas.
Thanks Cyganet! Lots of…
Thanks Cyganet!
Lots of details in your post. My current though is:
I'm not using the paid OB Sync service. On Android at least, Dropsync work beautifully well
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Hi IQ Users! Obsidian Sync…
Hi IQ Users!
Obsidian Sync is progressing well.
In waiting for a first pre-release version, I discovered that the Evernote Sync still works just fine. This means that those on the Free plan can continue creating notes (past the 50 threshold set by EN) provided these notes are created by InfoQube.
It is not clear when Evernote will fix the loophole but for now, it still works!
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Thanks for this update --…
Thanks for this update -- this is great news! Would it eventually be possible to have all (or selected) IQ fields for synced items map to YAML properties in Obsidian, with property values editable in Obsidian and 2-way sync?
Meanwhile, here are some interesting approaches to creating databases in Obsidian, which conceivably could work together with IQ sync:
https://archive.ph/Ydgha
You Can Replace Notion With Obsidian. Here’s How… | by Theo Stowell | Obsidian Observer | Jun, 2023 | Medium (archive.ph)
Hi Lucas, Would it…
Hi Lucas,
That is exactly what I have planned, and partly working now 😯👌. IQ --> OB sync will be released this week
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Looking forward to the…
Looking forward to the release of the IQ -> OB sync!
A suggestion: I’m not sure how the sync from IQ fields to Obsidian properties will work. But it wold be helpful if the IQ field ItemParent syncs to an OB property containing values “[[FIleName]]” instead of “FileName” (that is, each filename in the property would be surrounded by double brackets). That would allow the plugin Dataview to list the children of an item (although that would require the user to add a Dataview query manually to each note where one wanted to see a list of children). It would also automatically establish links between parent and child, so that the plugin Backlinks would show a list of children. (But Backlinks would show all the incoming links to the parent, and not just those from its children, and the list wouldn't be quite as nice as that from an appropriate Dataview query.) Either way, this would helpful until such time as there are special grid notes that serve the function of a grid.
Maybe also for ItemGParent.
Maybe also for ItemGParent.
Hi comvox, Excellent…
Hi comvox,
Excellent suggestion. It is now implemented. It works even without the Dataview plugin (AFAICT).
v1.125.Pre6 will be released today!
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
v1.125.0Pre6 is now online…
v1.125.0Pre6 is now online and includes IQ ==> Obsidian sync !
See 3. Synchronization with Obsidian
It's looking good!!! Minor…
It's looking good!!!
Minor point: With respect to the ItemParent and Parent, it would help if Parent wasn't an Obsidian property of type "Text", but of type "List" in order to deal with the case in which a note has more than one parent.
Hi comvox, Good point, I'll…
Hi comvox,
Good point, I'll issue a fix tomorrow. Items that have 1 or more parent will need to be "touched" (i.e. Edit > Touch) to update Obsidian with the new format