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How to sync Voicenotes with Obsidian

In this guide, you’ll learn how to sync your Voicenotes account with Obsidian using the official Voicenotes plugin.

Updated over a week ago

What is the Voicenotes Obsidian plugin?

The Voicenotes Obsidian plugin lets you automatically sync your notes from Voicenotes into your Obsidian vault. This includes:

  • Your note content

  • AI-generated summaries and action items

  • Optional audio files

  • Tasks converted into markdown TODOs

Many users have relied on a community-built Obsidian plugin for Voicenotes for a long time. That plugin was originally created by Andrew Lombardi and has been used by thousands of users.

To better support the community and address long-standing issues (like logout problems), we’ve now folded that plugin into the official Voicenotes Community organization. Our core engineering team is working closely with Andrew to maintain, improve, and support it going forward.

How to connect Voicenotes to Obsidian

Step 1: Get your Voicenotes access token

  1. Open voicenotes.com in a web browser

  2. Go to Settings

  3. Select Integrations & Automations

  4. Click Obsidian

  5. Copy the generated access token

You can also go directly to:
​https://voicenotes.com/app#settings

Step 2: Install the plugin in Obsidian

  1. Open Obsidian

  2. Go to Settings → Community plugins

  3. Turn off Restricted mode (if enabled)

  4. Click Browse

  5. Search for Voicenotes

  6. Install the plugin

  7. Enable it

Step 3: Connect your account

  1. Open the Voicenotes plugin settings in Obsidian

  2. Paste your access token into the Auth Token field

  3. Click Connect

That’s it - your notes will start syncing automatically based on your configured frequency.

What gets synced?

The plugin supports:

  • Automatic syncing at configurable intervals

  • AI-generated summaries and action items

  • Tasks converted to markdown TODOs (with optional tags)

  • Custom sync directories

  • Optional audio file downloads (off by default)

  • Date prepended to filenames

  • Optional deletion of synced notes from the Voicenotes server
    (this is a destructive action and requires explicit double opt-in)

Need help?

If you run into issues or have questions about syncing, you can:

We’re actively maintaining this plugin, and future updates will be provided by the Voicenotes team.

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