MILO

Multiple Location Manager & Indexer for Obsidian

Store Obsidian attachments outside your vault while continuing to use normal wikilinks and embeds.

Keep large files such as PDFs, images, videos, and audio on an external drive or cloud-synced folder without filling your vault.

Why MILO?

Large attachment collections can make Obsidian vaults unnecessarily large, especially when using Obsidian Sync.

MILO lets you separate your notes from your attachment storage:

Obsidian Vault/
├── Notes/
└── Research/

External Drive/
└── Obsidian Attachments/
    ├── Papers/
    ├── Images/
    └── Videos/

Your notes still use normal embeds:

![[research-paper.pdf]]
![[diagram.png]]

MILO resolves the files from your external location.

Features

• Store attachments outside your vault
• Support external drives and cloud-synced folders
• Resolve images, audio, video, PDFs, and other attachments
• Search through subfolders
• Index filenames for faster lookups
• Show indicators for externally resolved attachments
• Customise indicator colours
• Optionally create symlinks inside the vault
• Native folder selection

Example

Keep research papers on an external SSD:

Research Vault/
├── Notes/
└── Literature/

External SSD/
└── Research PDFs/
    ├── paper-001.pdf
    ├── paper-002.pdf
    └── paper-003.pdf

Your notes can still contain:

![[paper-001.pdf]]

MILO finds and resolves the file from the external location.

MILO Free

The free version includes:

• One external attachment location
• Attachment resolution
• Subfolder search
• Filename indexing
• External attachment indicators
• Custom indicator colours
• Optional symlinks

MILO Pro

MILO Pro includes everything in Free, plus:

• Multiple attachment locations
• Filetype-based attachment routing
• Moving attachments between locations
• Choosing a location when pasting or dropping files
• Additional attachment management features

Example routing:

PDF              → Research PDFs
PNG, JPG, WEBP   → Images
MP4, MOV         → Videos
CSV, XLSX        → Datasets

MILO Pro is available with a one-time payment and lifetime licence.

Upgrade to MILO Pro

How It Works

Obsidian Note
     ↓
Attachment Reference
     ↓
    MILO
     ↓
Attachment Index
     ↓
External Location
     ↓
Attachment File

MILO separates the attachment reference from the physical file location.

Getting Started

1. Install MILO from Obsidian Community Plugins.
2. Open Settings → MILO.
3. Add an external attachment location.
4. Select your attachment folder.
5. Configure search and indexing.
6. Continue using normal Obsidian links and embeds.

Development

MILO Free is open source and available under the MIT License.

Licence

MILO Free is licensed under the MIT License.