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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Share settings across vaults using profiles.

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Sync Settings for Windows

An Obsidian plugin that shares settings (plugins, themes, snippets, hotkeys, etc.) across multiple vaults using profiles.

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Features

  • Profile management — Create named profiles (e.g. default, work, mobile) in a central folder
  • One-click apply — Apply a profile to any vault with a single click
  • Selective sync — Choose which settings to share per profile. Keeps workspace and graph settings local per vault
  • Windows native — Built for Windows

How it works

  1. Set a profiles folder (e.g. D:\Obsidian\settings\)
  2. Create or select a profile — each profile is a subfolder containing shared settings
  3. Apply the profile to your vault — the plugin links your vault's settings to the profile

Multiple vaults pointing to the same profile will always stay in sync.

Shared items

Item Type
plugins/ Folder
themes/ Folder
snippets/ Folder
appearance.json File
app.json File
hotkeys.json File
community-plugins.json File
core-plugins.json File

Local-only items (not shared)

  • workspace.json
  • workspace-mobile.json
  • graph.json

Important notes

  • Run Obsidian as Administrator for best results. This removes all drive restrictions.
  • Without Administrator, only vaults on the same drive as the profiles folder can be linked.
  • After applying or changing a profile, Obsidian may not pick up the new settings immediately due to caching.
  • The settings tab may also show stale values until you restart.
  • Restarting Obsidian will always load the latest settings.

How file access works

This plugin uses Node.js filesystem APIs to read, write, and link files outside the Obsidian vault directory. This is required for its core purpose — sharing settings between vaults cannot be done through Obsidian's vault adapter API, which only accesses files inside a single vault.

The plugin touches only the paths you explicitly configure:

  • The profiles folder you set (e.g. D:\Obsidian\settings\)
  • Each vault's .obsidian/ directory that you choose to link
  • Symlinks / junctions / hardlinks created between the two

No other location on the filesystem is read or written.

Installation

From within Obsidian

  1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
  2. Search for "Sync Settings for Windows"
  3. Click Install, then Enable

Manually

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
  2. Create a folder <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/sync-settings-for-windows/
  3. Copy the three files into that folder
  4. Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins

Requirements

  • Windows 10 or later
  • Obsidian 1.5.0+

License

MIT

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