Dropbox Link for Obsidian

An Obsidian plugin spike for referencing files stored in Dropbox from notes.

Current scope

This first spike establishes the plugin shell and the reference syntax boundary:

• D/path/to/file.pdf is the concise authoring form.
• dropbox:/path/to/file.pdf is the unambiguous canonical form.
• Dropbox references are account-relative and independent of where the Obsidian vault is stored.
• Dropbox access tokens are reserved for Obsidian's SecretStorage API and are never written to plugin data, notes, or logs.
• The command palette includes commands to insert and inspect a reference.

Dropbox OAuth, API calls, file resolution, embeds, autocomplete, and platform-specific opening behavior are intentionally not implemented yet.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm run lint

For watch mode:

npm run dev

To test manually, copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-dropbox-link/, then enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.

Design notes

The plugin will use the Dropbox API for account-relative resolution instead of assuming a local Dropbox folder. Vaultbox, Obsidian Sync, iCloud, Git, and other vault-storage choices remain independent concerns.