Notional — Obsidian to Notion sync plugin for an AI-ready second brain

Two-way Obsidian ↔ Notion sync — your AI-ready second brain

Write in Obsidian. Share in Notion. Hand it to your AI. Notional is a free, open-source Obsidian plugin that pushes and pulls your Markdown notes to Notion — links intact, structure preserved, nothing overwritten by surprise — turning your private vault into a knowledge base that Claude, ChatGPT, and any Notion-aware agent can read.

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Notional for AI agents

Today's AI assistants split along one line. Local agents — Claude Code, Hermes, Cursor — read and write the Markdown in your vault directly. Cloud agents — OpenClaw, plus the Notion connectors and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations now built into Claude and ChatGPT — reach your knowledge through Notion's API. Obsidian has no official cloud API; Notion does. Notional is the bridge that lets both sides work from the same source of truth.

🧠 AI-readable second brain

Push the folders you choose to Notion and any Notion-aware agent can search, summarize, and cite your notes — without exposing your whole vault. You decide exactly what the AI sees.

📥 Mobile capture loop

A Discord or Telegram agent drops research and ideas into Notion on the go; Pull brings them home to the vault where you do deep work — same notes, both places.

🤖 Publish what your AI writes

Let Claude Code or Hermes draft summaries and outlines as Markdown, then push them to Notion as clean pages your team — or your next agent — can act on. Pull the edits back anytime.

🛟 Safe when agents edit

If an AI changes a Notion page and you changed the same note locally, Notional stops and asks instead of overwriting — so handing pages to agents never quietly costs you work.

Why sync Obsidian with Notion?

You think in Obsidian — it is fast, private, and yours. But your clients, teammates, and shared wikis live in Notion. Copy-pasting between them breaks your [[wiki-links]], flattens nested outlines, and leaves you with stale duplicates. Notional ends the copy-paste tax: one command and your note lands in Notion looking the way it should.

Features

🔁 True two-way sync

Push notes to Notion and pull teammates' edits back into Obsidian. Sync picks the right direction automatically.

🔗 Wiki-links → page mentions

Your [[internal links]] become real, clickable Notion page mentions — not dead plain text.

🛟 Never overwrites silently

If both sides changed, Notional stops and asks which version to keep. No surprise data loss, ever.

🔐 Private by design

One-click OAuth connect. Your token stays on your device and talks only to Notion — there is no server in the middle.

📁 Folder publishing

Push a single note or a whole project folder at once, with scoped control over exactly what goes public.

🧩 Rich block support

Headings, checklists, tables, callouts, toggles, code, and deep nesting are preserved both ways.

How to install

  1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse and search “Notional”.
  2. Click Install, then Enable.
  3. Open Settings → Notional, paste a Notion API token (or use one-click Connect with Notion), and create your notes database.
  4. Open any note and hit Push. Done.

Full setup guide on the GitHub README.

Frequently asked questions

How do I sync Obsidian with Notion?

Install the Notional plugin from Obsidian's community plugin browser, connect your Notion workspace with an API token or one-click OAuth, then use the Push, Pull, and Sync commands on any note. Notional handles Markdown-to-Notion conversion and keeps both sides in sync.

Can I use Notional with AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, or OpenClaw?

Yes — it's a sweet spot. Local agents (Claude Code, Hermes) work directly on your Obsidian Markdown, while cloud agents reach knowledge through Notion's API. Notional syncs the two, so you can publish AI-drafted notes from Obsidian to Notion, expose a scoped slice of your vault as an AI-readable second brain, and pull agent edits back — without silent overwrites.

Is Notional free and open source?

Yes. Notional is completely free and released under the GNU GPL v3.0. The full source is on GitHub.

Does it do two-way sync, or just export?

True two-way sync. You can push Markdown notes to Notion and pull Notion edits back into Obsidian. When both sides change, Notional asks you which version to keep rather than guessing.

Is my data private?

Yes. Notional runs entirely on your device. Your notes and Notion token never touch a third-party server — they go directly from your machine to the Notion API. See the privacy policy.

What happens to my wiki-links and nested notes?

[[wiki-links]] are converted into clickable Notion page mentions, and deeply nested outlines are uploaded past Notion's per-call block limit — so your structure survives the trip.