Use case or problem Previously the only folks who wants headless mode is the ones who wants to run sync from outside obsidian, but now with the landing of the cli, for now it is only a “remote control” of the gui app, it would make a lot of sense to have a native way to run obsidian headless possib…

#2 is a NO GO for me. Soon as my paid for sync service is opened up like a few have been proposing, I will go to local only and use backups to “sync”; albeit slowly. Some things are sacred and I suspect that is a more widely held view.

A headless sync client has it’s own FR here . I don’t think a headless sync client has any particular additional security implications. Maybe I am missing something. Anyway keep the convo about headless sync in its thread thanks!

As a command line user it would be great to perform some operations directly there, including when connecting to my machine over SSH, and through CLI agents and automated workflows. Also as @zzt42 mentioned obsidian.nvim is an incredible extra interface for Obsidian and being able to use things lik…

I found a workaround for using the Obsidian CLI over SSH on Linux (.deb install). Adding --ozone-platform=headless to the command resolves the segfault when no display is available, e.g., obsidian --ozone-platform=headless version. No D-Bus session forwarding is needed. This allows tools like Claud…

It would be ideal to interact with vaults via a standalone CLI that is completely independent of the GUI. Specifically, a downloadable binary that doesn’t require being installed and registered from within the app itself. Currently, using Obsidian with WSL is difficult. There isn’t a simple way to …

New topic created with my setup, as requested by @WhiteNoise . [image] Running Obsidian headlessly on Ubuntu for AI agent workflows (Xvfb + systemd setup) Share & showcase I’m running Obsidian 1.12.7 on a headless Ubuntu 24.04 server for AI agent workflows via …

Just a a quick clarification here. There is currently a command line interface (CLI) executable, referred as Obsidian CLI , that acts as a companion terminal based control system to the main GUI app (which must be running in the background). There is also a separate product, called “ Obsidian Headle…

I think this topic could be considered as a request to either: a) support allowing running Obsidian CLI headlessly or b) add more functionality to Obsidian Headless so that it can do more without needing the GUI app, eg perhaps query bases

I’ve just switched to using headless sync on my desktop linux machine, so I can edit files using nano/vim/anything if I’m SSH’d into the machine. I still use the GUI app when I’m at home, but have the sync plugin disabled. It would be great to be able to control the headless sync client from the GU…

Also, big thank you to the developers, it’s a pretty awesome new tool :slight_smile:

A complete terminal based version of Obsidian (headless, no GUI)

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dinosaur-tuxedo March 27, 2026, 5:23pm 11

New topic created with my setup, as requested by @WhiteNoise.