AnythingLLM Sync for Obsidian

Automatically keep Markdown notes in an Obsidian folder synchronized with an AnythingLLM workspace.

A typical personal knowledge flow becomes:

Web page
  ↓ Obsidian Web Clipper
Obsidian / Inbox
  ↓ AnythingLLM Sync
AnythingLLM Workspace
  ↓ Embedding + retrieval
AI answers from your notes

Features

• Choose any vault-relative watch folder.
• Choose an AnythingLLM workspace by name.
• Automatic sync on Markdown create and edit.
• Automatic removal from Workspace retrieval when a note is deleted.
• Re-sync on rename.
• Debounced writes for Web Clipper and active editing.
• Content hashing to skip unchanged notes.
• Bulk sync existing Markdown files.
• Manual sync command for the active note.
• Secure Developer API key storage using Obsidian SecretStorage.
• Per-vault settings and sync state.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.11.4 or newer.
• An AnythingLLM instance reachable from the device running Obsidian.
• An AnythingLLM Developer API key.

Install manually

Download the latest release assets and put them in:

<Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/anythingllm-sync/

Required files:

main.js
manifest.json

Then enable AnythingLLM Sync in Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins.

Configure

1. Open AnythingLLM → Settings → Developer API and create an API key.
2. Open Obsidian → Settings → AnythingLLM Sync.
3. Set the AnythingLLM URL, for example http://localhost:3001.
4. Create/select the API key through Obsidian SecretStorage.
5. Test the connection.
6. Refresh workspaces and select the target workspace.
7. Set a vault-relative watch folder such as 00-Inbox.
8. Enable automatic sync.

Commands

• AnythingLLM Sync: Sync current note to AnythingLLM
• AnythingLLM Sync: Sync watched folder to AnythingLLM

Sync behavior

Obsidian action	AnythingLLM behavior
Create Markdown	Upload + embed
Edit Markdown	Replace Workspace embedding with latest content
Rename Markdown	Re-upload under new filename + replace old embedding
Delete Markdown	Remove old embedding from Workspace
Existing notes	Use bulk sync command

Important AnythingLLM behavior

AnythingLLM's public Developer API supports upload and Workspace embedding add/remove operations. The plugin keeps the selected Workspace retrieval state synchronized. AnythingLLM can retain superseded uploaded source objects in its global document storage after an update because there is currently no documented public per-document source-delete endpoint used by this plugin.

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Production build:

npm run build

This generates main.js in the repository root.

Release

Obsidian expects the GitHub release tag to exactly match manifest.json (for example 1.0.0, not v1.0.0). Release assets are:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css only if a future version adds custom CSS

The included GitHub Actions workflow builds and publishes those assets when a semantic-version tag is pushed.

Privacy

• Notes are sent only to the AnythingLLM URL you configure.
• The API key is stored in Obsidian SecretStorage rather than plugin data.json.
• The plugin contains no analytics or telemetry.

License

MIT