Contacts as people notes in Obsidian

Steps

1. Make a folder for people inside your vault, like Vault/People, not the vault itself.
2. Press “Connect” beside Contacts on Exporter’s home, then “Open Contacts Folder”. The panel opens in your AddressBook folder: press “Select This Folder”.
3. On “Choose Where the Files Go”, pick “My Obsidian Vault”, press “Use This Folder” and choose Vault/People in the panel.
4. Pick the layout in “Organize” on the card: one folder, by group (groups/<group>/) or by company (companies/<company>/). Tick the cards you want.
5. Press “Sync Now”. An edited card rewrites its note while Exporter runs.

What you get

Vault/People/
  Anna Kowalski.md
  Ben Ortiz.md

Each note’s front matter holds what the card has, as values and lists Obsidian’s Properties panel shows:

organization: "Northwind Studio"
job_title: "Art director"
birthday: 1990-12-10
phones:
  - "+1 415 555 0123 (mobile)"
groups:
  - "Studio"

Export Messages into the same vault too, and each person’s note lists their conversations while each conversation links its people.

Pitfalls

• Give people a folder of their own, so their notes and yours stay apart. A “Full Resync” removes only the files Exporter wrote.
• Edits made in Obsidian are not sent back to Contacts, and the next write of that card replaces them. Add your own notes about a person in a separate note.
• Changing “Organize” moves the files on the next sync. On the free allowance you get your first 100 ticked cards.

Every field, with its key, is in the Contacts docs.