diff --git a/hosts/tkaronto/default.nix b/hosts/tkaronto/default.nix
index 715c86f..93594c8 100644
--- a/hosts/tkaronto/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/tkaronto/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     ../../modules/persist
     ../../modules/gamemode
     ../../modules/network/iwd.nix
+    ../../modules/syncthing
     ../../users/root
     ../../users/patriot
   ]
diff --git a/modules/syncthing/default.nix b/modules/syncthing/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48a5186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/syncthing/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{config, inputs, ...}: {
+  users.users.syncthing.extraGroups = ["users"];
+  services.syncthing = {
+    enable = true;
+    devices.redmi-phone = {
+      id = builtins.readFile "${inputs.self}/secrets/redmi-phone.syncthing.id";
+      introducer = true;
+      autoAcceptFolders = true;
+    };
+    dataDir = "${config.system.persistDir}/syncthing";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/secrets/redmi-phone.syncthing.id b/secrets/redmi-phone.syncthing.id
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b54494a
Binary files /dev/null and b/secrets/redmi-phone.syncthing.id differ
diff --git a/users/modules/obsidian/default.nix b/users/modules/obsidian/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23f0aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/modules/obsidian/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{pkgs, config, lib, ...}: {
+  home.packages = [pkgs.obsidian];
+  home.persistence."${config.system.persistDir}${config.home.homeDirectory}".directories = [".config/obsidian"];
+}
diff --git a/users/patriot/default.nix b/users/patriot/default.nix
index 2fad528..1efac60 100644
--- a/users/patriot/default.nix
+++ b/users/patriot/default.nix
@@ -63,6 +63,14 @@ in {
         isSystem = false;
       };
     };
+    syncthing.folders = {
+      notes = {
+        enable = true;
+        path = "${config.users.users.patriot.home}/notes";
+        devices = ["redmi-phone"];
+        ignorePerms = true;
+      };
+    };
   };
   # gnome keyring better fr fr
   security.pam.services.patriot = {
@@ -93,7 +101,7 @@ in {
         # cli stuff
         ["zoxide" "zsh" "fzf" "starship" "direnv"]
         # dev stuff
-        ["helix" "git" "ssh"]
+        ["helix" "git" "ssh" "obsidian"]
       ];
     in
       l.flatten [
@@ -119,6 +127,7 @@ in {
           # caches / history stuff
           ".directory_history"
           ".cache"
+          "notes"
         ]
         ++ mkPaths ".local/share" [
           "direnv"
@@ -172,7 +181,6 @@ in {
         cloudflared
         lutris
         protontricks
-        obsidian
       ];
     };
     programs = {