This is yet another unofficial sync plugin for Obsidian. If you like it or find it useful, please consider give it a [star ](https://github.com/fyears/remotely-save) on Github.
[](https://github.com/fyears/remotely-save/releases)
As of Jan 2022, the plugin is considered in BETA stage. **DO NOT USE IT for any serious vaults.****ALWAYS, ALWAYS, backup your vault before using this plugin.**
- **Obsidiain Mobile supported.** Vaults can be synced across mobile and desktop devices with the cloud service as the "broker".
- **[End-to-end encryption](./docs/encryption.md) supported.** Files would be encrypted using openssl format before being sent to the cloud **if** user specify a password.
- **Users have to trigger the sync manually.** This design is intentional because the plugin is in beta, and it's better for users to be exactly aware of the running of this plugin.
- **"deletion" operation can only be triggered from local device.** It's because of the "[minimal intrusive design](./docs/minimal_intrusive_design.md)". May be changed in the future.
- **No Conflict resolution. No content-diff-and-patch algorithm.** All files and folders are compared using their local and remote "last modified time" and those with later "last modified time" wins.
- **Cloud services cost you money.** Always be aware of the costs and pricing.
- **All files or folder starting with `.` (dot) or `_` (underscore) are treated as hidden files, and would NOT be synced.** It's useful if you have some files just staying locally. But this strategy also means that themes / other plugins / settings of this plugin would neither be synced.
Additionally, the plugin author may occasionally visit Obsidian official forum and official Discord server, and pay attention to this-plugin-related information there.
- Option #1: Search in the official "community plugin list", or click [obsidian://show-plugin?id=remotely-save](obsidian://show-plugin?id=remotely-save), then install the plugin.
- Option #2: You can also use [Obsidian42 - BRAT](https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat) to install this plugin. Input `fyears/remotely-save` in the configuration of BRAT.
- Option #3: [](https://github.com/fyears/remotely-save/releases) Manually download assets (`main.js`, `manifest.json`, `styles.css`) from the latest release.
- Option #4: [](https://github.com/fyears/remotely-save/actions/workflows/auto-build.yml) Every artifacts are placed in the "Summary" under every successful builds. It's automatically generated by every commit, may break something.
- Prepare your S3 (-compatible) service information: [endpoint, region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/s3.html), [access key id, secret access key](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v3/developer-guide/getting-your-credentials.html), bucket name. The bucket should be empty and solely for syncing a vault.
- Configure (enable) [CORS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/enabling-cors-examples.html) for requests from `app://obsidian.md` and `capacitor://localhost` and `http://localhost`. It's unfortunately required, because the plugin sends requests from a browser-like envirement. And those addresses are tested and found on desktop and ios and android.
- If you want to enable end-to-end encryption, also set a password in settings. If you do not specify a password, the files and folders are synced in plain, original content to the cloud.
- Click the new "switch" icon on the ribbon (the left sidebar), **every time** you want to sync your vault between local and remote. (No "auto sync" yet.)
- **Be patient while syncing.** Especially in the first-time sync.
- After the authorization, the plugin can read your name and email (which cannot be unselected on Dropbox api), and read and write files in your Dropbox's `/Apps/remotely-save` folder.
- **This plugin's function for OneDrive is not as mature as functions for S3.**
- **This plugin is NOT an official Microsoft / OneDrive product.** The plugin just uses Microsoft's [OneDrive's public API](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api).
- This plugin only works for "OneDrive for personal", and not works for "OneDrive for Business" (yet). See [#11](https://github.com/fyears/remotely-save/issues/11) to further details.
- Currently webdav server has to be enabled CORS for requests from `app://obsidian.md` and `capacitor://localhost` and `http://localhost`, **AND** all webdav HTTP methods, **AND** all webdav headers. These are required, because Obsidian mobile works like a browser and mobile plugins are limited by CORS policies.
- Popular software NextCloud, OwnCloud, `rclone serve webdav` do **NOT** enable CORS by default. If you are using any of them, you should evaluate the risk, and find a way to enable CORS, before using this plugin.
- The plugin is tested successfully under python package [`wsgidav` (version 4.0)](https://github.com/mar10/wsgidav). See [this issue](https://github.com/mar10/wsgidav/issues/239) for some details.
- You can configure auto syncing every N minutes in settings.
- In auto sync mode, if any error occurs, the plugin would **fail silently**.
- Auto sync only works when Obsidian is being opened. It's **technically impossible** to auto sync while Obsidian is in background, because the plugin just works in the browser environment provided by Obsidian.
It's often verbose / inconvenient to input not-oauth2 credentials on mobile. (On different desktop computers, it's trivial to copy and paste `data.json` across different devices.)
1. Configure the plugin settings on one device, and make sure the sync functions work. (E.g, you could sync notes using S3 credentials.)
2. Open plugin settings page. Then scroll down the page, until the section "Import and Export Settings". Click the button "Get QR Code". A new modal should show up and you should see a QR code.
3. On a second device, make sure the vault name is the same as the first device's.
4. On that second device, use its camera app, or any apps that support scanning QR codes, to scan the QR code from the first device. (On latest iOS, the system's built in camera app should work. On Android, at least one open source app [Binary Eye](https://github.com/markusfisch/BinaryEye) is tested to be working.)
5. A link / url / address should be identified in the scan-QR-code app, and you could follow the instruction in the app, and then you should be redirected to open the Obsidian app.
6. And finally, there should be a new notice in the Obsidian app saying the settings are successfully imported. Otherwise please check the error message in the notice.
