Obsidian WebDAV Sync

General-purpose & bidirectional WebDAV syncing for your vault.

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Introduction

Obsidian WebDAV Sync is a general-purpose syncing plugin for Obsidian via a WebDAV server.

There's already a lot of plugins to sync your notes between devices. But when we have a look at the syncing plugin landscape, we can clearly see that each plugin has its own disadvantages that prevents you from using it:

• Remotely Save: full-featured syncing plugin, but currently unmaintained and full of bugs (like deleted files come back).
• Syncthing Integration: a great way of P2P syncing, but requires both of your devices to be online, not 24/7.
• Live Sync: most robust solution in the room, but requires custom server setup.
• Git Integration: ideal for production-level collaboration and provenance, but not suitable for daily usage.
• Vendor-specific Syncing Plugin (like Nutstore Sync): tailored experiences, but locked to a single vendor.

Acknowledging that WebDAV would be the most convenient DIY solution for syncing, this plugin comes to provide a balanced experience of day-to-day convenience, easy setup, and the robustness that doesn't make your notes into a chaos.

Features

• 🔄 Bidirectional syncing between local vault and remote WebDAV
• ⚡ Fast syncing mode with cached acceleration for fast, sync-on-change syncing
• 📁 WebDAV explorer for exploring remote directories
• 🔀 Conflict handling:
  • Smart merge
  • Latest survive
  • Use remote
  • Use local
  • Skip
• 🚀 Strict / loose sync modes for different vault sizes
• 📦 Large file skipping via configurable size threshold
• 🔁 Robust file handling that doesn't mess up your notes
• 📜 Lightweight local database empowers scalability and ensures performance

Install & Setup

This plugin is currently in beta. You can install it using the BRAT plugin:

1. Go to Community plugins and search for BRAT
2. Install and enable it
3. Go to BRAT settings, click Add beta plugin, copy and paste https://github.com/hesprs/obsidian-webdav-sync into the Repository field
4. Select the latest version and click Add plugin

Configuration:

1. Enter WebDAV server URL
2. Enter account + credential
3. Click Check connection
4. Select remote directory
5. Start sync

Notes

• Initial sync may take longer for large vaults
• Backup important notes before first sync
• The file presence resolution and note merging are robust, but not perfect

Development Roadmap

Below is a list of planned features and improvements, the faster this plugin is adopted and the star ⭐ grows, the faster the development will be. Also, we welcome contributors that would like to help us with the development.

• Support syncing files in the Obsidian config folder (.obsidian/)
• Saving WebDAV credentials in Obsidian Keychain
• Allow users to adjust rate and concurrency limits
• Enhance observability of sync progress

License and Copyright

Obsidian WebDAV Sync is forked from Obsidian Nutstore Sync and has undergone significant overhaul with focuses on no vendor lock-in, performance, and stability, licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License. This project is not affiliated with Nutstore.

Copyright ©️ 2026 Hesprs (Hēsperus) (modifications), 2025-2026 Nutstore (unchanged parts)