Using Intabula with Obsidian

Intabula opens an existing Obsidian vault as-is: it reads the same Markdown files, the same YAML frontmatter, and the same [[wikilinks]]. You can run both apps against the same folder at the same time and use each for what it's best at.

What Intabula adds to an Obsidian vault

• Database views — folders become collections with typed columns, table and Kanban views, and saved views in the sidebar.
• A safe AI agent — a built-in Claude/Codex agent that edits through specific typed operations, so it can't reformat your files, break your links, or touch anything outside the vault. Byte-exact edits mean your formatting survives.
• Schema inference — recurring frontmatter keys get offered as official columns; violations flag into an inbox instead of being rejected.
• An iOS companion — views, search, and editing on the phone, syncing through iCloud Drive with no server.

What stays yours

Intabula's index is a rebuildable cache; the Markdown files remain the source of truth, in Obsidian-compatible form. Nothing about your vault is converted or locked in — stop using Intabula and the vault is exactly the folder it always was.

A note on agent safety

Pointing a general coding agent at an Obsidian vault gives it a shell: it can rename a file and silently break every link to it, or rewrite formatting wholesale. Intabula's agent has no shell — renames rewrite every wikilink atomically under a crash-recovery journal, and every change is logged with a before-and-after diff. See Write safety.