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Using Obsidian with kDrive and WebDAV

Update 07/03/2026

This guide explains how to synchronize your Obsidian vault on your Infomaniak kDrive via the WebDAV protocol. This way, you can keep your notes safe in a storage medium located in Switzerland.

 

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Introduction

  • Obsidian is a powerful and extensible note-taking tool that uses local Markdown files to organize your knowledge.
  • To avoid cluttering your kDrive directories, it is strongly recommended to create a dedicated folder in your personal directory on kDrive, with a simple folder name such as "obsidian" for example, and then specify it at the end of the WebDAV link in step 7 below:

 

Configure Obsidian to use kDrive via WebDAV

Prerequisites

The integration relies on the community plugin WebDAV Sync, which ensures two-way synchronization:

  1. Open your vault in the Obsidian application.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Go to Community plugins.
  4. Enable them:
  5. Click on Browse:
  6. Search for the WebDAV Sync plugin, install it, and enable it:
  7. Access the plugin's options to enter the WebDAV account settings:
    1. Server address: https://IDkDrive.connect.kdrive.infomaniak.com (see prerequisites)
    2. Username: email address used to log in to your Infomaniak account
    3. Password: application password if two-factor authentication is enabled or your Infomaniak user account password if you have not enabled 2FA
    4. Name of the personal folder on kDrive, for example /obsidian/ or /folder name/ (see the introduction above)
  8. Configure the plugin's behavior according to your preferences (synchronization on startup, scheduled, or in real time) and validate.
  9. Start a first synchronization test to validate proper communication with kDrive:
  10. Once the confirmation is validated, the synchronization will run in the background to protect the integrity of your notes:

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