Create Encrypted Notes Within Your Obsidian.md Vault

Meld Encrypt is a community plugin that lets you encrypt and decrypt your notes in Obsidian. You can choose to encrypt an entire note or just selected text within a note.

While you view or edit an encrypted note, the plugin keeps its saved contents encrypted. Choosing Decrypt note or Decrypt in-place, or exporting through the CLI, writes plaintext that may be synced or backed up.

Requires Obsidian 1.13.0 or later. Meld Encrypt supports desktop and mobile.

1. Open your vault in Obsidian and go to Settings → Community plugins.
2. Turn on community plugins if prompted, then click Browse.
3. Search for Meld Encrypt, select it, and click Install.
4. Click Enable. Configure password confirmation and password remembering under Settings → Meld Encrypt.

Open the command palette with Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+P on macOS, or use Obsidian's Open command palette action on mobile. Search for the Meld Encrypt commands below.

Choose which ribbon icons to show under Settings → Meld Encrypt → Ribbon icons. These choices persist across restarts and updates; commands remain available when their icons are hidden.

1. Run Meld Encrypt: Create new encrypted note.
2. Enter and confirm a password, optionally add a hint, and click Encrypt.
3. Write your note. Its saved contents are encrypted in a .mdenc file.
4. Run Meld Encrypt: Lock and close all open encrypted notes when finished.
5. To read or edit it later, open the encrypted file and enter its password when prompted.

To encrypt an existing Markdown note, right-click it in the file explorer and select Encrypt note, or open it and run Meld Encrypt: Convert to or from an encrypted note. Using that command on an encrypted note converts it back to plaintext.

1. Open a Markdown note in the editor and select the text to encrypt. If Expand selection to whole line? is enabled under Settings → Meld Encrypt, partial selections expand to include the whole line.
2. Run Meld Encrypt: Encrypt selection, enter and confirm a password, and click Encrypt.
3. To reveal the text, place the cursor inside the encrypted block and run Meld Encrypt: Decrypt. Enter the password when prompted.
4. Edit the revealed text and click Save to re-encrypt your changes. Decrypt in-place replaces the encrypted block with plaintext in the note.

See the guides for whole encrypted notes, selected-text encryption, and settings for more details.

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Information about the latest release can be found on the release notes page.

Report any bugs or features requests here.

See the documentation homepage, Getting Started, Encryption and Security, and Troubleshooting and Recovery, including standalone decryption without Obsidian.