[WIP] 🔥 Firesync

Synchronize your vaults via Firebase. This is the UNOFFICIAL plugin for obsidian in order to synchronize your vaults on various devices via Firebase.

Notice

• If you would like to get easy access to consistent, reliable and stable synchronization, please check out the Obsidain official synchronization feature.
• Please be sure to back up your vault, as Firesync may break it at any moment. Currently, Firesync does not provide the ability to restore your original vault.
• Simultaneously using another synchronization solutions can cause data loss, corruption, or duplication.

Features

• Real-time synchronization across your devices using Firebase.
• All functionalities work with Firebase's free plan.
• Temporary offline use is available.

How to set up

Before setting up

To set up Firesync, please prepare the following in advance.

• gcloud CLI
• Firebase project (Web)
• Node.js & npm

Setup procedure

 1. Back up your vault.

Backups can be done any way you like; it would be very easy to make a copy of the Vault and store it in a Zip file. I am a cautious person, so I back up to the cloud. I use gstuil rsync command by Google Cloud Storage like below.

gsutil -m rsync -x "\.git" -r ./my-example-vault gs://my-example-vault.appspot.com/backups/my-example-vault

 2. Create an authenticated user via Firebase Authentication.

Click Authentication menu on the left navigation bar, and click Add user button to create new authenticated user. Remember this user's email address and password as they will be used when setting up Firesync in Obsidain's preferences.

 3. Update CORS settings of Google Cloud Storage.

Obsidian applications cannot access Google Cloud Storage by default due to CORS restrictions. Therefore, the CORS settings for Google Cloud Storage must be changed. This repository contains a simple command to do so, which can be executed as follows. The environment variable BUCKET is the name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket you wish to use.

BUCKET=your-project.appspot.com npm run cors:set

The following commands can be used to check if CORS has been set up correctly.

BUCKET=your-project.appspot.com npm run cors

 4. Deploy rules to Cloud Storage.

To protect your data, we recommend that you set up security rules for Firestore and Cloud Storage. Please execute the following commands.

npm run deploy:rules

 5. Install this plugin into your Obisidian vault.

Currently, Firesync is not listed on the community plugin list, so please install it manually from the GitHub Release. Download Firesync zip archive, and then extract into ${VAULT}/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-firesync. If you do not have that folder, please create it.

 6. Enable this plugin in Community plugins section of Obsidian's preferences.

In the Installed plugins section, please turn on the Firesync switch. You will then see the Firesync section in the lower left side of Obsidian's preferences.

 7. Open Firesync section and configure.

Please enter the following options. These configuration items can be obtained from the Firebase Console.

• API Key
• Auth Domain
• Project ID
• Storage Bucket
• App ID

Then enter the email address and password of the previously created authenticated user.

• Email
• Password

After entering all the above items, please turn on the Sync Files & Folders switch.

If you would like to setup another device, please setup with same vault name in order to enable bidirectional synchronization.

Options

• TBD.

Commands

Firesync: Show synchronization status

Open the status view to show progresses of synchronization with Firebase. If you have errors during synchronization, you can retry or discard in this view.

QA

Q. Firesync has prevented Obsidian from starting. What should I do?

Make sure Obsidian is quited and open the file .obisidan/obisidian-firesync/data.json in an editor. Change sync: true to sync:false and save the file. Start Obsidian again.

Howt to develop

TBD.