15 points | by mudkipme 3 hours ago ago
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> A self-hosted web app I can reach from anywhere.
So you can access the Obsidian markdown files from the web? How are you solving that?
Via VPN or do you sync your files with a server?
I just found the solution weeks ago: https://mudkip.me/2026/06/29/Run-Obsidian-as-a-self-hosted-w...
tl;dr: There is an open source project named Ignis which bridges the Electron APIs Obsidian uses and makes it a web app. For syncing, both official Obsidian Sync and LiveSync has headless cli.
Keeping everything local in a file structure was a big part of my attraction to:
https://github.com/clach04/puren_tonbo/wiki/Tombo
Nice to see this approach carried forward.
> A self-hosted web app I can reach from anywhere.
So you can access the Obsidian markdown files from the web? How are you solving that?
Via VPN or do you sync your files with a server?
I just found the solution weeks ago: https://mudkip.me/2026/06/29/Run-Obsidian-as-a-self-hosted-w...
tl;dr: There is an open source project named Ignis which bridges the Electron APIs Obsidian uses and makes it a web app. For syncing, both official Obsidian Sync and LiveSync has headless cli.
Keeping everything local in a file structure was a big part of my attraction to:
https://github.com/clach04/puren_tonbo/wiki/Tombo
Nice to see this approach carried forward.