How to encrypt every note in Obsidian? Is it even possible? I love using Obsidian, but sometimes I think about moving to another app. Are there any good alternatives?

You could make your obsidian vault inside of a cryptomator vault? You can then sync that cryptomator vault to where ever you want.

If you want knowledge management tools, I like LunaTask for it. AppFlowy is another tool worth looking into for an alternative. I don’t know much about Obsidian so don’t have a specific answer for it.

[image] anon57862721: LunaTask Would be cool if you open a tool suggestion thread on that :slight_smile: Other options: [image] Notebooks - Privacy Guides These encrypted note-taking apps let you keep track of your notes without giving them to a third party. …

Let me make a draft for the write up first to explain why it should be added, and then I can make that post later today.

Done: [image] Lunatask hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Website Short description Lunatask is an all-in-one encrypted to-do list, reminder list, habit tracker, journaling, life-tracking and notes & knowledge management app. Why I think this tool should be …

Thank you for the advice. I didn’t know about Cryptomator

I tried testing this. It unfortunately does not work for me. Obsidian for some reason cannot open Obsidian vaults inside Cryptomator drives, at least in Windows 11 where I tried this out. There is a solution to this issue that is proposed in this Obsidian forum post , but it’s a bit old. The propose…

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