One Way Syncing

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

Allow Obsidian to utilize either Obsidian Sync or Obsidian Publish as a one-way cloning mechanism.

Proposed solution

Have another option in the Obisidan menu to open a vault from URL (an Obsidian Publish URL), which will clone the contents and update upon reopening the vault or a click of a button.

Current workaround

Git is an option with the workspace file ignored and a read-only repository.

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This was discussed on the Discord:

joethei ā€”
why do you want to do this?

Dylan ā€”
If an obsidian vault composer has their own way of distributing content apart from Sync or Publish to hold large files such as video recordings, "opening vault from URL" would be fantastic to distribute and automatically pull updates from the origin efficiently.

This can be done over HTTP, and since Publish is already delivered over HTTP then this solution would kill two birds with one stone.

Allowing alternative hosting solutions to be involved

But I fear that the business decision to do this would hurt the selling point of Publish if there is a cheaper alternative... Also, the priority is quite low.
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Adding to this. I have a large number of files that I would like to use for reference on my PC, but not to be used on my phone. The problem with excluding the sync of these files on the phone is that they donā€™t always exclude in in time and so Iā€™ve lost one or two files this way.

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This would be a great feature. Iā€™d love to have my phone to have read only access to my Obsidian vault. I keep having syncing problems caused by my phone. I donā€™t want my phone to ever modify or delete files. Iā€™ve lost a few files because of this.

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Itā€˜s a really good feature suggestionļ¼ Usefulļ¼