Support for Linking Between Separate Vaults

Problem:

As vaults grow in size, organizing and maintaining clarity within a single vault becomes challenging. Users could separate content into multiple vaults—e.g., personal, work, hobby—to keep contexts clean and metadata (tags, properties, etc.) meaningful within their domain.

Proposed Solution:

Enable linking between notes across different vaults. Clicking such a link would open the target note in its original vault. This preserves vault-level organization and avoids cluttering tags or properties across unrelated contexts.

Optional Future Enhancement:

While cross-vault search is not critical initially, it would be useful to allow searching across a defined directory containing multiple vaults.

Use Case Example:

A user maintains a Work vault for projects and meeting notes, and a Personal vault for journaling and reading lists. When reflecting on a book in the Personal vault, they might want to link to a related work project. Cross-vault linking allows for this connection without merging content or duplicating notes, preserving each vault’s context and structure.

Benefits:

  • Improves organization by maintaining clean boundaries between contexts
  • Reduces metadata clutter (e.g., unrelated tags across domains)
  • Enhances user experience as vaults scale

Have you tried Obsidian URI?

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