Is N2O open source?

Short answer: not yet, but it’s coming, and we’ve put a date on it.

We’d rather tell you this plainly than have you wonder why a Notion-to-Obsidian tool isn’t on GitHub yet.

Our commitment

That’s a real deadline, not a someday. Open-source is the destination; we just need enough runway to get there without the project dying first.

Why it’s closed for now

N2O is built and maintained by a very small team. Notion’s API changes constantly, sync is genuinely hard to get right, and keeping all of that stable and supported takes real, ongoing work. Staying closed-source for the first stretch lets us fund that work and harden the product before we hand the code to the world. A half-finished sync engine open-sourced too early helps no one.

This is about sustainability, not secrecy. It is not about your data:

The plugin runs on your machine. Your note content is synced directly between your vault and Notion’s API. We don’t run your notes through our servers.
“Closed-source” here means the code isn’t public yet, not that your content goes to some cloud. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what we do and don’t collect.

What will and won’t be opened

The plugin (the thing that runs in your vault) is what we’re committing to open-source.
The license and account server (license keys, payments, the Notion sign-in proxy) stays private. It’s backend infrastructure, not part of the plugin, and it isn’t useful to anyone else.

Want it open sooner?

Every Pro and Lifetime purchase directly funds the runway that gets N2O open-sourced faster. If that matters to you, grabbing a license is the most direct way to push the date forward. We’ll share progress toward the milestone as we go.

Questions or want to hold us to the date? Open an issue at github.com/n2osync/n2o/issues.