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Simple Password

by Lucy Dryaeva
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Description

The Simple Password plugin adds a lightweight privacy layer to your vault by allowing you to lock specific folders or files with a password. It prevents unauthorized access without modifying or encrypting your files. You can trigger the lock manually via commands, hotkeys, ribbon button, or custom URLs, and the vault auto-locks after inactivity. The plugin offers two privacy modes-blur or tab closing-for flexible display protection. It also blocks file previews, embeds, and search results in locked areas, with an option to exclude certain paths. Although it doesn't offer real encryption, it's ideal for casual protection when working in shared or public environments.

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Latest Version

1.4.0
5 months ago

Changelog

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Simple Password

Protect your Obsidian vault with a password

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Features

  • Lets you lock your vault so that no one snoops
  • Never touches your files
  • Auto Lock after inactivity
  • Different 'privacy modes': simple blur & closing affected tabs
  • You can target specific paths (multiple paths supported)
  • Multiple ways to lock: command, hotkeys, ribbon & URL (obsidian://lock)
  • Protects against page preview core plugin
  • Protects against embeds
  • Protects against search
  • (Optionally) locks graph view
  • Allows cancelling, letting a person look through unprotected parts
  • Plays well with theming - most things have unique classes

[!WARNING] This plugin DOES NOT encrypt files. So if you are looking for "real" security, you gotta use some other plugin - like Protected Note or Cryptsidian

How to use, how it works, etc

To set the plugin up, go into the settings and set a password & alter the protected paths as you wish.

After that, the vault has 2 states: locked & unlocked. On load, the state is always locked.

When locked, if you try to open a file or get the preview for a file in a protected path, it will prompt you for a password. If unlocked, it will open the files as normal.

When the privacy mode is set to close tabs, it will not let tabs open for protected files (when locked). After a password is entered, the closed tabs will re-open.

When the privacy mode is set to blur, it will only blur the background of the modal.

Preview

Blur Mode

Blur Mode Preview

Tab Closer

Tab Closing Mode Preview

Acknowledgements

HEAVILY inspired by Qing Li's Password Protection plugin - I just wanted to add a few things to their plugin & the codebase didn't allow for my ideas to be easily implemented. Used the sample plugin template

Contributing

I'm open to issues, PRs, etc!

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