Obsidian plugin · Free and open source
Share your notes.
Edit them together.
Turn any note into a clean web page, send it straight to another vault, or write together in real time, from Obsidian or the browser.
Install in Obsidian No email or password needed to share your first note.
Up and running in a minute
Note Colab connects to the hosted service automatically. There is nothing to sign up for.
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Install the plugin
In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, select Browse, search for Note Colab, then Install and Enable.
Open in Obsidian → - 2
Share a note
Open a note, press Ctrl/Cmd P and run Note Colab: Share note. Choose who gets access.
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Send the link
The link is copied for you. Recipients open it in any browser, import it into Obsidian, or receive it directly in their vault.
Install manually instead
- Download
main.jsandmanifest.jsonfrom the latest GitHub release. - Put both files in
<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/notecolab/. - Reload Obsidian and enable Note Colab under Settings → Community plugins.
Choose how people get in
Every share can have its own permission, expiry, and reader appearance. Stop sharing whenever you want.
View-only link
Anyone with the link
Opens as a clean web page. Direct recipients get a locked copy in Obsidian that stays up to date.
Editable link
Anyone with the link
Edit together in the browser, or import the note into Obsidian and keep editing there.
Invited collaborators
Only people you invite
Pick trusted contacts or paste a User ID. The note arrives encrypted in their Note Colab plugin.
Made for how Obsidian notes look
Readers need no Obsidian
Shared notes open in any browser, with a light or dark reader you can tune per link.
Live, with presence
Edits sync while the note is open, and you can see who else is looking at it.
Obsidian syntax, rendered
Callouts, math, task lists, and embedded images look the way they do in your vault.
Straight into a vault
Send a note to another Note Colab user by User ID. They accept it, or opt in to auto-import.
Links that expire
Set an expiry per link, or revoke a share and remove the server copy whenever you want.
Self-hostable
Point the plugin at your own compatible server. Identities stay scoped to that server.
Privacy, stated plainly
What is encrypted, and what the server can still see.
Encrypted on your device
- Current clients encrypt stored Markdown, titles, and supported images with AES-256-GCM before upload. Older shares may keep a plaintext title until updated.
- The key lives after
#in the link. Browsers do not send that part to the server. - The plugin has no telemetry or advertising.
Visible to the server
- Live collaboration text passes through the relay unencrypted while people are editing.
- Share metadata: identifiers, permissions, timestamps, sizes, collaborators, and image file names.
- Anyone with an active view-only or editable link can read the note, so send it only to intended recipients.
Details and limits are on the security page.