Right now, the Version History is only one year long. While this is likely enough for most people, it would be nice to have an option similar to:
Delete Sync Version History older than: 1 month/ 1 year/ Never
Since Obsidian already sets a limit on total vault size with Sync Version History included, there should be no reason why this wouldn’t work from a business perspective.
Use case
I write longform content in Obsidian. Many times, I write a new “draft” over the previous one, knowing that if for any reason I want to see what I wrote, I can see that in the Sync Version History.
Maybe 2 years down the road I will need/want to see one of the first drafts of the first chapters, but that will already be deleted.
Workarounds
One could just save a copy of each draft, but that is unnecesarily complicated.
Git plugin or other sync alternatives offer the like, but a native implementation would be best.
Strong, strong agree. I’ve only discovered this limitation today and it’s going to cost me a lot of time to figure out how to export Sync version history. I would pay more for Sync solely for indefinite version history.
I agree with the gist, which is to allow more control over the sync history, specified as ‘n’ days. In my case, I am new user doing a lot of experimentation in Obsidian. My files are changing frequently in small ways, and as a result I am exceeding my 10 GB limit at least once per week and have to manually clear out the old versions. I don’t need a year’s worth of note versions, at present.
Another vote in favor of this. Obsidian Sync is a great product, but the version history limit is a tough pill to swallow (and seems to go against Obsidian’s stated values of “owning your data for the long term”). I’m solving this myself with Git, but at that point, the value proposition of Obsidian Sync goes down vs. other solutions that use storage that I’m already paying for (iCloud Drive, Dropbox).
Is there a technical reason for the 1-year limit that wouldn’t be solved by additional storage? I’d personally be happy with a lower resolution for history (i.e. I don’t need to track every single change and would be happy with daily / hourly “commits”). Also, it’s not ideal, but the ability to export version history in some standard format (ideally one that Obsidian itself could read, too) would at least prevent the data from getting lost entirely.
A year later and I’m still waiting for this feature. It is the only blocker for me to try obsidian (business user here running a startup).
I still can’t understand why obsidian team would think it’s ok not include unlimited history as eg simplenote has been doing for free for many years. Guys: storage of compressed text is cheap. Please fix this already!