Keep settings outside of the vault?

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What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to use Obsidian with a small team, and have each person with their own automatically created daily notes. The vault in synced in OneDrive for us.

Things I have tried

I thought I could change the settings in my client to have my daily note go in a folder like dailynotes/[myName]/[date], and then my colleague could do dailynotes/[theirName]/[date]. Then Obsidian would auto-create different daily notes in our own daily note directories.

But I realized that these settings are stored at the vault root, not specific to each person’s client. So if I change the daily note location to my name, then its changed for my colleague too.

Is there some way to create settings that we can keep outside the vault, so I can have a different version than my colleague? Like can I have the obsidian settings point to a location in ~/.obsidian instead of in our synced folders?

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I did just realize I can tell Onedrive not to sync the .obsidian folder. So I can keep my own settings. It would still be nice to know if this is possible with just Obsidian, though.

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It’s in Settings > Files & Links:

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Give each user their own unique config folder.

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Thanks, @AlanG!

Aren’t the settings all stored in this config folder? Where does Obsidian keep this setting about where the override config folder is?

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You can have multiple config folders for one vault :blush:

E.g.: if you sync a vault across multiple devices, each device can have and use its own configuration folder (where Obsidian settings on that device are saved)

So within your vault, instead of having just one .obsidian all devices rely on, you’ll have something like:

/My Vault
├─ .obsidian-desktop
│ ├─ plugins
│ └─ etc...
├─ .obsidian-mobile
│ ├─ plugins
│ └─ etc...
├─ My note.md
├─ Another note.md
└─ etc...

… and a desktop, could use the settings within .obsidian-desktop while a mobile device could use the ones within .obsidian-mobile :blush:

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