Connecting Obsidian Desktop and Obsidian Mobile is a great flex.

Syncing with Obsidian Sync

1. Create an account on Obsidian - https://obsidian.md/account
2. Download Obsidian on Desktop
3. Download Obsidian on mobile
4. Login to your account on both
5. Both on Desktop and Mobile do the following
   1. Go to settings
   2. From core plugins enable Sync
   3. Once you enable the sync option will be available at the settings page(Go back and click on settings again)
   4. Click on the steps suggested
6. Use the same name for the vaults on
   1. Desktop
   2. Mobile
   3. Remote Sync
7. Once you are done you look at the sync status to know
8. Create a file on desktop and see it is appearing on the mobile app
9. Create a file of mobile and see that it appearing desktop app.

Syncing using Dropbox

1. All the files in Obsidian are markdown files in a folder. Knowing this helps you a lot.
2. So the sync between desktop for Obsidian is just syncing the folder that is used in the vaults.
3. Before you start remember the folder location you are using in Mobile and desktop for starting the Obsidian - Better to keep it same.
4. Try to keep the vault names also same on both the destop and mobile Obsidian apps. This will reduce the confusions and make sure that links work without any issues.
5. Install dropbox on both desktop and mobile.
6. Add a folder in Dropbox on Desktop. Create a new vault in Obsidian and open it from the folder you just created in Dropbox.
7. Now go to mobile and make sure that the folder in dropbox is visible.
8. Create a new vault from Obsidian Mobile app. Use the same vault name. Point the obisidian app to the same folder in dropbox.
9. Create a file on desktop and see it is appearing on the mobile app
10. Create a file of mobile and see that it appearing desktop app.

Referenced in:

• Obsidian-is-awesome
• Mentoring-Starter-Kit