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Does anyone know of a way to use Obsidian in a multiple-user setup? I want to use it as a department level solution (5 or so users) to share all of our personal knowledge ;) I was even thinking of and searching for a check in/check out solution. Asking about Windows.


The Obsidian team uses a shared Sync vault[1] to collaborate on making Obsidian. Since Obsidian runs on local files you could use any shared file storage like Dropbox. If you want more granular version history, you can use Git, there's a nice plugin for it[2].

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults

[2]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git


Obsidian Sync may provide a partial solution but it's mainly targeted at a single user synchronizing vaults between devices. There's also the Obsidian Git[1] plugin if you're working with developers that are familiar with Git, with all of the pros and cons you'd expect. Finally, there's obsidian-livesync[2] which in theory would provide some very powerful functionality; it seems very cool but given that doing such livesync is complex and easy to get wrong exercising a great deal of caution (frequent backups and care when rolling out for production uses) seems prudent.

Keep in mind that Obsidian requires a license for business use[3]. They're a very small shop that's entirely funded by licensing/sync/publishing income and are making a pretty fantastic product and they deserve some cash to keep developing Obsidian.

[1]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git [2]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync [3]: https://obsidian.md/pricing




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