Anyone using Obsidian as a company knowledge base? Here's the problem we ran into

We run a startup and we've been using Obsidian as our company knowledge base. Great tool but there's one big gap, no security.

Everyone with vault access sees everything. API keys, strategy docs, client info, all wide open. And when you connect AI tools they burn through tokens reading raw markdown with all the noise.

We ended up building a plugin called VaultGuard that adds encryption and access control to Obsidian. Built it for ourselves first, now we are testing it.

If anyone else ran into this, how do you handle sensitive info when sharing an Obsidian vault with your team? And if you're interested in VaultGuard let us know, we'd love to hear your feedback.

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Anyone using Obsidian as a company knowledge base? Here's the problem we ran into