Obsidian Multi-Environment Setup

Overview

Configure separate development, testing, and production vaults for Obsidian plugin work. Covers vault templates for team onboarding, environment-specific plugin settings, sync strategies, and .obsidian/ directory management across environments.

Prerequisites

• Obsidian desktop app installed
• Node.js 18+ and npm/pnpm for plugin builds
• Git for version control (recommended)
• Basic understanding of symlinks and file system operations

Instructions

Step 1: Create the Environment Structure

Set up three isolated vaults -- dev, test, and prod:

# Base directory for all environments
mkdir -p ~/obsidian-envs/{dev,test,prod}