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Obsidian Notion Sync

📩 Installation

pip install obsidian-notion-sync

🔄 Usage

There are 2 modes to use it :

Doing Obsidian sync with Git (this automatically triggers the below mode with Github Action)

>> obsidian-notion-sync git-sync

Doing Obsidian Vault sync with Notion

>> obsidian-notion-sync notion-sync

Synopsis

>> obsidian-notion-sync

Usage: obsidian-notion-sync [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Sync Obsidian notes to Notion via GitHub

Options:
  --debug  Enable debug logging
  --help   Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  git-sync     Sync Obsidian notes to GitHub
  notion-sync  Sync Github placed Obsidian notes with Notion

🎛️ How does it work ?

This is how the pipeline's overview looks like:

🎯 Detailed workflow

Step 1 : Takes up file all the files from your obsidian vault.

Uses the vault path given in the env variable

Step 2 : Upon the running of the command, it copies the value at the place of invocation

Choose a place of invocation and it creates a directory named 'ObsidianClonedVault'.

Step 3 : It then syncs this folder with a Github Repo

You can supply the name for an existing repo or it would create a new one with the given name in the env variable.

Step 4 : Once the syncing is completed, it triggers a Github action that uploads these files to notion via Notion APIs.

A Github workflow runs in the Github action space. You will get a mail if it fails for some reason. Check the logs for more debugging on that front.

Step 5 : Voila ! You can now access your notes on Notion too !

If everything goes well, it will update your notion page specified in the env variable.

🛠️ Configuration

Before using the tool, you need to set up the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Example
GITHUB_TOKEN	Your GitHub personal access token	ghp_1234...
NOTION_TOKEN	Your Notion integration token	secret_5678...
OBSIDIAN_DIR	Path to your Obsidian vault	/Users/you/ObsidianVault
REPO_NAME	Name for the GitHub repository	My-Second-Brain
NOTION_PAGE_ID	ID of your Notion page	abc123...

🍪 Setting up tokens

1. GitHub Token:

   • Go to GitHub Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Tokens
   • Create a new token with 'repo' permissions

2. Notion Token: (more details below on its access)

   • Go to www.notion.so/my-integrations
   • Create a new integration
   • Copy the integration token

3. Notion page ID: (more details below on its access)

   • Create a new page in Notion
   • Copy the page ID from the URL (it's the part after the page name and after the last '-')

📑 Example Configuration Script

You can create a shell script to set up your environment:

#!/bin/bash
export GITHUB_TOKEN="your_github_token"
export NOTION_TOKEN="your_notion_token"
export OBSIDIAN_DIR="/path/to/your/obsidian/vault"
export REPO_NAME="your-repo-name"
export NOTION_PAGE_ID="your_page_id"

obsidian-notion-sync --debug

Save this as run-sync.sh, make it executable (chmod +x run-sync.sh), and run it with ./run-sync.sh.

📄 Setting up your notion page

(Skip this section if you were able to set the notion api tokens and page access )

Step 1 : Create a notion page for storing your Obsidian Vault

The red box highlighted is the Page Id - it is a 32 sized alphanumeric unique ID for the page which starts after the name of your page.

Step 2 : Go to https://www.notion.so/profile/integrations

You can open it from the settings in your notion app as well.

Step 3 : Create an integration

You can use the API tokens of an existing integration as well. Make sure it has the permission to read + write content.

Step 4 : Copy this token

Set this token as your environment variable as mentioned above.

Step 5 : Allow your notion page to gain access

It will not have access to this connection by default.

🖥️ Troubleshooting

If you encounter errors:

1. Check that all environment variables are set correctly:

   echo $GITHUB_TOKEN
   echo $NOTION_TOKEN
   echo $OBSIDIAN_DIR
   echo $REPO_NAME
   echo $NOTION_PAGE_ID
   

2. Ensure your Obsidian vault path exists and is accessible

3. Verify that your GitHub token has the necessary permissions

4. Check that your Notion integration is properly configured and has access to the page

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Support

If you encounter any issues, please file them on our GitHub repository's issue tracker.

🧑‍💻👩‍💻 Contribution

The agenda is to make this package as the easy and smooth package (with lesser bugs ;) for syncing a multitude for note taking applications but firstly achieve a robust two way sync between notion and obsidian.

Please refer to the for more details. (TBD with more implementation and design considerations)

📂 Directory structure of the project:

# obsidian_notion_sync/
# ├── .github/
# │   └── workflows/
# │       └── sync.yml
# ├── src/
# │   └── obsidian_notion_sync/
# │       ├── __init__.py
# │       ├── __about__.py
# │       ├── _version.py
# │       ├── cli.py
# │       ├── config.py
# │       ├── sync.py
# │       ├── sync_to_notion.py
# │       └── exceptions.py
# ├── tests/
# │   └── __init__.py
# ├── .gitignore
# ├── LICENSE
# ├── README.md
# ├── pyproject.toml

License

obisidian-notion-sync is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.