A small desktop plugin for Obsidian that merges multiple PDF files locally, without uploads, accounts, or telemetry.
I built a small Obsidian plugin because I kept running into the same very ordinary problem:
sometimes I just needed to combine a few PDFs, put them in the right order, save the result, and move on.
For me, that usually meant things like invoices, receipts, scanned paperwork, or a few exported PDFs that belonged together. There are already plenty of PDF tools out there, so the problem was never that this was impossible. The problem was that the workflow often felt heavier than the task itself.
I would open a browser tool, think about whether files were uploaded or not, switch back to Finder, reorder files somewhere else, download the merged PDF, and then move it again. It worked, but it always felt like too much friction for such a small job.
So I made a deliberately small Obsidian plugin for this one use case:
PDF Zusammenfügen - pdfzus
It does three things:
- select multiple local PDF files
- let you adjust the order before merging
- save the merged result locally
That is intentionally the whole scope.
A few boundaries are deliberate:
- desktop only
- no uploads
- no account
- no telemetry
- no server-side processing
It is not trying to be a full PDF suite inside Obsidian. I mainly wanted one simple local workflow that stays out of the way.
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If anyone here has a similar local-first workflow, I’d be glad to hear whether the current flow feels simple enough or where it still feels clumsy.