Plugin Installation

The Tide plugin syncs your vault to your Sidian site. Changes are tracked as you write and published when you choose.

Install the plugin

Via Obsidian community plugins (coming soon)

1. Open Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins
2. Click Browse and search for Tide
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy all three files to your vault's .obsidian/plugins/tide/ folder
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

BRAT (beta testing)

1. Install the BRAT plugin
2. Add rbardtke/tide as a beta plugin
3. Enable Tide in Community plugins

Connect to your site

1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Tide
2. Paste your API key — find this in Account settings
3. Enter your Site ID — shown in your site's dashboard settings
4. Click Test connection to verify

Get your API key

1. Go to Account settings
2. Under API keys, click New key and copy the key — it is only shown once

API keys are scoped to your account — any key can sync any of your sites. The site selection happens inside the plugin settings.

Next: publishing

See Plugin/Syncing to understand how files are tracked and published.