Handling single source of truth + encryption

[anthonyma94]

I have a fairly advanced use case I'd like some guidance on.

I want to sync my Obsidian settings, which is stored in <vault_path>/.obsidian/. The vault path differs per OS, and I would like a single state for them all. I would also like to have 1 encrypted file, in <vault_path>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-livesync/data.json.

I read #3828 saying I can't symlink an encrypted file. Ideally I can symlink everything except that file, but I don't think that's possible. I also can't make every file in that directory a template since Obsidian controls it. How should I handle this scenario?

[twpayne]

By Obsidian, do you mean https://obsidian.md/ ?

If so, I don't recommend using chezmoi to manage your Obsidian data, because that data presumably changes regularly. Every change in a file managed by chezmoi is stored in git. This is why you shouldn't use chezmoi to share your shell history across machines.

Instead, I would use whatever cross-machine mechanism Obsidian provides for sharing your Obsidian data across machines.

If you're talking about Obsidian configuration (e.g. some kind of preferences that you change only occasionally) there is a manual solution with .chezmoiignore files and the decrypt template function.