Running Obsidian on Supernote

I have a Supernote around and had some fun with it. It’s incredible to write down, and it has an excellent interface. You get addicted to it, but I stopped using it quite a while ago.

My biggest problem was that I have both Obsidian and Supernote notes, so they became a mess again, and went against the idea of having Notes in only one place. I did sync the Supernote files to my vault, and using supernote-obsidian-plugin, is an excellent way to see my notes on Obsidian. But I was still missing my daily notes structure on Supernote, and the ability to edit my markdown notes using Supernote quickly.

I’ve tried installing Obsidian on the device before without success, but after the latest updates from Supernote, the support for Sideloading apps has been improved.

This is what I did…

Make sure your Supernote is upgraded to at least 2.21

If it’s your first time installing custom Android apps on Supernote You can follow the steps described by Vladcampos’ guide to install the Obsidian

I already had F-droid and Aurora Store installed in my Supernote, so I used those apps to install both Shyncthing-Fork and Obsidian

I had some problems opening my vault on Obsidian, so I had to take some extra steps to make it work. Basically, I could not select a folder in Supernote running Obsidian, so I created the config file myself so that I would not have to select it.

I created a file called vaults.json, with my Vault path, and added to the md.obsidian. folder.

vaults.json

{
  "vaults": {
    "notes": {
      "path": "/sdcard/Android/data/md.obsidian/files/Notes",
      "ts": 1714351234567
    }
  }
}

Then I configured Synthing-Fork to sync my notes folder to /sdcard/Android/data/md.obsidian/files/Notes, which Obsidian has access to.

Then used adb to push vaults.json to Supernote obsidian config folder:

adb push vaults.json /sdcard/Android/data/md.obsidian/files/

Opened Obsidian and was able to open my vault with success.

That’s it, Obsidian running on Supernote.