tag: Automation

obsidian-sync-github Why write this script? I’m using Arch Linux (btw) and the Obsidian electron AppImage from AUR. It works great, but for some reason the obsidian git community plugin makes the app super sluggish. I removed the plugin and wrote my own bash script instead. How the script works Auto-pushes Obsidian notes to GitHub via a cronjob every 30 minutes crontab -e -> */30 * * * * /home/jonash/.local/bin/obsidian-sync-github Sends a notification via dunstify and your e-mail address of choice #!/bin/bash # Navigate to your repository directory cd ~/obsidian/ # Fetch changes from remote repo and merge updates into current local branch git pull --rebase # Add all changes to git git add . # Commit the changes with a current timestamp git commit -m "Automated commit on $(date)" # Push the changes git push origin main # Send notification after the push is sent if git push origin main; then # Check if dunstify is available (dunst's notification tool) if command -v dunstify >/dev/null 2>&1; then # Send a notification dunstify "Successfully pushed obsidian notes to GitHub!" else echo "dunstify not found, cannot send notification" fi # Email details recipient="jonash@jonash.xyz" subject="Subject: Obsidian Notes Push Successful" body="Your Obsidian notes have been successfully pushed to GitHub on $(date)" # Send the email echo -e "$subject\n\n$body" | msmtp "$recipient" else echo "git push failed" fi