I’ve reviewed all the posts I can find for syncing with Obsidian, and I have it working, which is fabulous. But when I sync, I only have two folders in Obsidian: Draft and Notes. Everything outside of the draft folder is shown as a file under Notes. But in my Binder I have several folders outside of the Draft folder. For example, I have folder named Process Journal which has several child files; another is named Drafts also with child files. But all of the folders and the files they contain simply show up as numbered files under Notes in Obsidian.
Also, if I add a child file under an existing file in Scrivener, then sync, the new child file also shows up inline with its parent file, rather than as a child.
I’m wondering if anyone syncing Obsidian with Scrivener knows a way for these other folders to also show up as folder in Obsidian, and if there’s any way for nested files to show up as nested in Obsidian.
To add to that, the top level of a sync folder is “above” the binder, so to speak, and separates its contents into two parts: those items found descending from the Draft folder, and anything and everything that does not. So it doesn’t matter if one item is level 8 in Research, and another is at level 0 right above the Draft folder at the top, both will go into “Notes”.
Basically in Obsidian you do not want to mess with the folders Scrivener creates and maintains. You’ll have to work within those two folders exclusively, as it will be expecting them, and nothing else, at that top level (the only variation is whether you are not syncing the entire binder or not, it won’t create a Notes folder if you elect to only sync Draft contents, for example).
Thank you! That explains it … so many layers of complexity beneath an apparently simple surface! This was super helpful. I think for me Obsidian won’t be a good tool as I use the structure of Scrivener extensively in my work.