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Multi-vault discovery and aggregation plugin for Obsidian

Built for Obsidian users managing multiple vault directories.

“Super vault: point Obsidian at an entire drive; auto-discover and index only the vaults within…”

The receipts — real demand

“Super vault: point Obsidian at an entire drive; auto-discover and index only the vaults within”

Full dossier

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Every corroborating quote, the source receipts, and the community echo. One email, no payment.

6.1 / 10 · demand score
Pain 7
Willingness to pay 4
Feasibility 7
Specificity 9
Audience 7
Competition 6

Why this is a gap

Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.

The market

Obsidian power users managing 3+ vaults spread across drives or folders. No search volume data, but the pain (manual vault switching, no unified index) targets a niche of note-takers doing complex knowledge work.

Competition & the opening

Wedge play crowded — win on a narrow angle Moat 3/10 · thin angle Market 4/10 · small niche
Crowded market · 6/10 vs Obsidian Vaults Linker (community plugin)Dataview plugin (cross-vault queries via symlinks/folder unions)Dendron (multi-vault native, built-in)Logseq (multi-graph support natively)Foam (single workspace but extensible)Obsidian Sync + folder symlink workarounds (built-in partial solution)

Dendron and Logseq both have native multi-vault/multi-graph support built-in; Obsidian Vaults Linker and Dataview offer partial solutions via symlinks or cross-vault queries. Obsidian Sync + folder symlinks provide a free workaround. Market is crowded (6/10) with native solutions already embedded in competitors and partial built-in Obsidian features.

What's hard to build

Obsidian's vault architecture treats each vault as a separate, isolated Electron context with its own plugin instance. Discovering and indexing multiple vaults requires either launching Obsidian multiple times (defeating the purpose) or building a separate indexing daemon outside Obsidian that stays in sync—non-trivial cross-process state management and data consistency.

Why now

Obsidian users managing multiple vaults face friction that native multi-vault support in Dendron and Logseq has proven is a real workflow demand.

How you'd monetize

One-time $19 plugin purchase via Obsidian Marketplace.