Obsidian Drive on Demand
Your cloud files, on demand inside Obsidian — on every device.
Browse, sync and edit your files from Obsidian: files-on-demand, selective offline, and automatic two-way sync. No desktop cloud app on iOS — Obsidian Drive on Demand brings your files into Obsidian everywhere, iPhone and iPad included.
A Google account is required to authorise Drive access.
What it does
Lazy Drive panel. browse your whole Drive without downloading anything.
Selective sync. tri-state checkboxes per file and folder — only what you tick is stored locally.
Files-on-demand. text, Markdown, PDFs, images and other files download on demand, no size limit.
Automatic two-way sync. your edits push to Drive; changes made elsewhere are pulled back automatically.
Offline-resilient. a persistent outbox re-sends your local changes when you're back online — nothing is lost.
Conflict-safe. if both sides changed, a copy is created; your data is never silently overwritten.
Pick any sub-folder of your Drive as your working root. English & French.
Pricing
Free during the current beta. A low-cost subscription will be introduced later to cover the hosted service and development. Early users get their first month free, a free tier is planned to remain available, and you'll be clearly notified before any charge — nothing is billed automatically today.
Install
- 1Beta (available now): install the BRAT plugin, then add the beta plugin solutions-real-it-org/obsidian-plugin-drive-on-demand, enable it and run “Drive on Demand: connect my account”.
- 2Community plugins: coming once the plugin is approved by Obsidian.
How it works & what it connects to
To keep your credentials safe, the plugin never embeds any Google secret. It talks to exactly two remote services:
- Google Drive API — to list, download and upload the files you choose to sync.
- Real-IT authentication broker (obsidian-drive.real-it.org) — used only for the Google sign-in flow (exchanging and refreshing OAuth tokens server-side). It never receives your notes or file contents — file data travels directly between your device and Google Drive.
Privacy
No client-side telemetry, no ads, no selling of your data. Your notes and files never transit our servers. Your Google refresh token is stored locally on your device.