Password protect / lock folder / Encryption at rest

The devs reply about this multiple times in every thread.

It won’t be added because Obsidian is a plain text editor. It works on plain text files not encrypted files.

There are many good benefits to this - other applications (including apps on mobile) can interact with the same files. I use Automate on Android to append to log notes multiple times per day, and I couldn’t do that if the notes were encrypted at rest.

There are already plenty of existing methods to encrypt your files which you can use alongside Obsidian to encrypt your vault - Cryptomator is a great one which has been mentioned in this thread.

Alternatively there are other note taking applications which do encrypt everything at rest - StandardNotes and Notesnook would be two good examples.

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