Getting Started

Meld Encrypt requires Obsidian 1.13.0 or later and supports desktop and mobile. If needed, install Obsidian first and open a vault.

Install Meld Encrypt

  1. Open Settings → Community plugins in your vault. On mobile, open Settings from Obsidian’s sidebar.
  2. Turn on community plugins if prompted, then choose Browse.
  3. Search for Meld Encrypt, select it, and choose Install.
  4. Choose Enable. Password confirmation and password remembering are configured under Settings → Meld Encrypt.

Choose what to encrypt

Mode Use it for What stays readable in the vault
Whole encrypted notes Protecting an entire note’s text The filename and optional password hint; the note text is encrypted in a .mdenc file.
In-place encryption Protecting selected text inside a Markdown note The rest of the note; selected text is replaced with an encrypted block.

Keep your password somewhere safe: there is no password reset that can recover encrypted content. Password hints are not encrypted; do not put secrets in them.

Open the command palette with Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+P on macOS. On mobile, use Obsidian’s Open command palette action.

Try a whole encrypted note

  1. Run Meld Encrypt: Create new encrypted note.
  2. Enter and confirm a password, optionally add a hint, and choose Encrypt.
  3. Write your note. Its saved contents remain encrypted while you view or edit it.
  4. Run Meld Encrypt: Lock and close all open encrypted notes when finished.
  5. Open the encrypted file to read or edit it again. Enter its password if prompted; a remembered password may unlock it automatically.

For an existing Markdown note, right-click it in the file explorer and choose Encrypt note, or run Meld Encrypt: Convert to or from an encrypted note. Using that command on an encrypted note converts it to plaintext.

Try selected-text encryption

  1. Open a Markdown note in the editor and select some text.
  2. Run Meld Encrypt: Encrypt selection, enter and confirm a password, then choose Encrypt. If Expand selection to whole line? is enabled in settings, partial selections include the whole line.
  3. Place the cursor inside the encrypted block and run Meld Encrypt: Decrypt. Enter its password if prompted.
  4. Edit the revealed text and choose Save to re-encrypt your changes.

In Reading View, click a visible 🔐 marker to reveal text in a read-only popup with Copy. Use the editor to edit encrypted text.

Decrypt note, Decrypt in-place, and recovery exports produce plaintext that may be synced or backed up. Revealing text in a dialog or editing an unlocked encrypted note keeps the saved content encrypted unless you choose a plaintext conversion.

Next steps

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