Obsidian File History & Recovery

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when...	Use the alternative instead when...
Recovering an overwritten or accidentally deleted note	Editing a current note — use `vault-files`
Diffing what changed between two versions of a note	Searching the current vault state — use `search-discovery`
Auditing the history of a single file before a destructive edit	Restoring a deleted file from disk-level backups — use OS tools

Obsidian keeps two parallel version stores:

File Recovery — local snapshots, configurable in Settings → File Recovery (history:*).
Sync history — server-side versions, available with Obsidian Sync (sync:history, sync:read, sync:restore).

diff unifies both: by default it lists every available version (newest = 1) across both stores. filter=local|sync narrows the source.