✓Direct Answer

Yes. Oyma allows you to create and manage multiple independent vaults. You can keep personal journals, confidential client casework, and corporate engineering notes completely isolated in separate folders on disk.

Complete Separation of Intellectual Contexts

In modern knowledge work, mixing personal musings with enterprise intellectual property or confidential client notes is a significant operational and legal risk.

Oyma supports full multi-vault isolation, ensuring that separate domains remain strictly cordoned off from one another.

How Vault Isolation Works

Each vault is an entirely self-contained directory with its own isolated assets and indices:

  • Isolated File Trees: Notes in Vault A cannot accidentally reference or link to notes in Vault B via relative paths.
  • Isolated Full-Text Search: Searching in your Work Vault will never return or expose personal health logs, journal entries, or financial records stored in your Personal Vault.
  • Independent Attachment Storage: Pasted images, audio recordings, and PDF documents are saved strictly inside each vault’s local storage path.

Switching Between Vaults

Oyma makes switching between workspaces frictionless:

  1. Vault Switcher Shortcut: Press ⌘⌥O to open the quick Vault Switcher dialog.
  2. Recent Vaults List: Instantly jump to recently opened vaults with keyboard navigation.
  3. Separate Windows: You can open multiple vaults simultaneously in separate native macOS application windows, placing your work projects on one virtual desktop and personal notes on another.
Mac NVMe Storage
├── ~/Documents/WorkVault/        <-- Window 1: Corporate engineering & meetings
└── ~/Documents/PersonalVault/    <-- Window 2: Journaling, reading notes & finances

Because each vault is simply a directory, you can locate one vault inside a shared team Git repository while keeping another strictly on an encrypted local APFS volume. There is zero data crossover between vaults.

Complete Data Isolation Across Independent Vaults

Multi-vault architecture guarantees strict domain separation:

  • Context Isolation: Notes in your Work Vault cannot accidentally cross-reference notes in your Personal Vault.
  • Search Boundaries: Full-text searches are strictly confined to the active vault, preventing personal journal entries from appearing during client presentations.
  • Multiple Windows: Open different vaults in separate native macOS application windows side-by-side.
  • Vault Quick Switcher (⌘⌥O): Jump between independent vaults instantly with keyboard navigation.

Total Context Isolation and Data Separation

Maintain absolute boundaries between sensitive corporate work and personal journals. Each vault features isolated file trees, independent search indexes, and dedicated attachment directories for complete security.

You can keep your client casework on an encrypted external drive that you unmount at the end of the day, while keeping your personal creative writing vault on your primary internal storage drive.

Multi-Vault Invariants

  • Context Isolation: Independent file trees prevent cross-vault linking and data leakage.
  • Search Boundaries: Full-text queries are restricted strictly to the currently active vault.
  • Concurrent Windows: Open separate vaults in independent native macOS windows side-by-side.
  • Fast Switching: Jump between vaults instantly using the ⌘⌥O Quick Vault Switcher.

Related Questions & Architecture Guides