I love ObsidianSo much, in fact, this blog uses a color palette, Flexoki, designed by Obsidian CEO Steph Ango., but I hate copying my notes out into Google Docs to share and edit them with teammates.

So I built an Obsidian Plugin called Collaborative Folders that enables real-time, end-to-end encrypted, Google Docs-style multiplayer editing of files inside Obsidian. Here’s a demo:

Basically: share a folder with another Collaborative Folders user and the files inside that folder will stay in sync between your local Obsidian instances. You can edit them together and see each other’s cursors. Images and other attachments come along for the ride, too. And you can generate share links for files that deeplink into the recipient’s own Obsidian vault.

This is built with a relay server that handles communication between your Obsidian instances, but that relay server can’t see the content of the notes — they are encrypted end-to-end.

You can use my hosted relay server for a monthly fee or easily deploy your own (instructions for the latter available on GitHub, along with the entire plugin & server MIT-licensed source code).

Check it all out at collaborativefolders.com and let me know what you think! Would love to hear feedback. It is very much a beta product, so follow typical backup precautions…

p.s. the valiant Obsidian plugin reviewing team is facing an onslaught of submissions due to the rise in vibecoded plugins. It may be weeks or months until they get to this one and add it to the real directory — on the site I have workaround installation instructions. But in the meantime, maybe give an emoji reaction or polite supportive comment on the GitHub PR for my plugin, or ping anyone you know at Obsidian :)

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