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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Foam is essentially core Obsidian inside VSCode/VSCodium, no access to plugins etc but there are VSCode plugins you can use as a replacement i.e. GitDocs can replace the Obsidian Git Sync plugin

    If you search for comparisons most are pretty outdated now, for example Foam does have a graph view but Obsidian will still pull ahead in terms of features.

    The main advantage for me is having everything in one program especially on my work PC where I can’t install Obsidian but I am allowed VSCode.





  • For the 14 pcs (~8 regularly used) in my house I’m running daily backups with Synology Active for Backup to a spinning disk DiskStation, file sync of the User directory using Synology Drive to an SSD DiskStation (also backed up to HDD DS). That data is all deduplicated. Then additionally I’ve got a few custom scripts to keep programs up to date using Chocolatey and winget which then export the list of installed programs ready to be reinstalled on a new machine.

    This allows me to either do full device restores or clean installs where the reinstall of the relevant programs is handled automatically and then it’s just setting up sync/backup/office activation and we’re off to the races.