diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fb4b3b9..cad994b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ And to clean up the logs & database files, run `scripts/clean-up.sh`
 ## Todos
 
 - Don't show server traces on auth failure
-- better history tab
 - Better server logs
 - Allow setting config.yml path for server
 - history tab for going back
diff --git a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/styles.scss b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/styles.scss
index c66c24a8..9ffc5caa 100644
--- a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/styles.scss
+++ b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/styles.scss
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
 		.history-card-title {
 			font: var(--font-monospace);
 			display: flex;
+			align-items: center;
 			gap: var(--size-4-2);
 			word-break: break-all;
 			margin: 0;
diff --git a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/history-view.ts b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/history-view.ts
index a4c09b55..4b743a46 100644
--- a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/history-view.ts
+++ b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/history-view.ts
@@ -3,13 +3,19 @@ import { ItemView, setIcon } from "obsidian";
 
 import { intlFormatDistance } from "date-fns";
 import type { HistoryEntry, SyncClient } from "sync-client";
-import { SyncType, SyncSource, SyncStatus } from "sync-client";
+import { SyncType } from "sync-client";
 
 export class HistoryView extends ItemView {
 	public static readonly TYPE = "history-view";
 	public static readonly ICON = "square-stack";
 	private timer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
 
+	private historyContainer: HTMLElement | undefined;
+	private readonly historyEntryToElement = new Map<
+		HistoryEntry,
+		HTMLElement
+	>();
+
 	public constructor(
 		leaf: WorkspaceLeaf,
 		private readonly client: SyncClient
@@ -38,18 +44,6 @@ export class HistoryView extends ItemView {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private static getSyncSourceIcon(source: SyncSource | undefined): IconName {
-		switch (source) {
-			case SyncSource.PUSH:
-				return "upload";
-			case SyncSource.PULL:
-				return "download";
-			case undefined:
-			default:
-				return "";
-		}
-	}
-
 	private static renderSyncItemTitle(
 		element: HTMLElement,
 		entry: HistoryEntry
@@ -62,11 +56,6 @@ export class HistoryView extends ItemView {
 		element.createEl("span", {
 			text: entry.relativePath
 		});
-
-		const syncSourceIcon = HistoryView.getSyncSourceIcon(entry.source);
-		if (syncSourceIcon) {
-			setIcon(element.createDiv(), syncSourceIcon);
-		}
 	}
 
 	public getViewType(): string {
@@ -78,6 +67,11 @@ export class HistoryView extends ItemView {
 	}
 
 	public async onOpen(): Promise<void> {
+		const container = this.containerEl.children[1];
+		container.createEl("h4", { text: "VaultLink history" });
+
+		this.historyContainer = container.createDiv({ cls: "logs-container" });
+
 		await this.updateView();
 		this.timer = setInterval(() => void this.updateView(), 1000);
 	}
@@ -89,66 +83,105 @@ export class HistoryView extends ItemView {
 	}
 
 	private async updateView(): Promise<void> {
-		const container = this.containerEl.children[1];
-		container.empty();
-		container.createEl("h4", { text: "VaultLink History" });
+		const container = this.historyContainer;
+		if (container === undefined) {
+			return;
+		}
 
 		const entries = this.client.getHistoryEntries().reverse();
+
+		if (this.historyEntryToElement.size === 0 && entries.length > 0) {
+			// Clear the "No update has happened yet" message
+			container.empty();
+		}
+
 		entries.forEach((entry) => {
-			container.createDiv(
-				{
-					cls: ["history-card", entry.status.toLocaleLowerCase()]
-				},
-				(card) => {
-					if (
-						this.app.vault.getFileByPath(entry.relativePath) !==
-						null
-					) {
-						card.addEventListener("click", () => {
-							void this.app.workspace.openLinkText(
-								entry.relativePath,
-								entry.relativePath,
-								false
-							);
-						});
-
-						card.addClass("clickable");
-					}
-
-					card.createDiv(
-						{
-							cls: "history-card-header"
-						},
-						(header) => {
-							header.createEl(
-								"h5",
-								{
-									cls: "history-card-title"
-								},
-								(title) => {
-									HistoryView.renderSyncItemTitle(
-										title,
-										entry
-									);
-								}
-							);
-
-							header.createSpan({
-								text: intlFormatDistance(
-									entry.timestamp,
-									new Date()
-								),
-								cls: "history-card-timestamp"
-							});
-						}
+			const element = this.historyEntryToElement.get(entry);
+			if (element !== undefined) {
+				const timestampElement = element.querySelector(
+					".history-card-timestamp"
+				);
+				if (timestampElement != null) {
+					timestampElement.textContent = intlFormatDistance(
+						entry.timestamp,
+						new Date()
 					);
-
-					card.createEl("p", {
-						text: `${entry.message}.`,
-						cls: "history-card-message"
-					});
 				}
-			);
+				return;
+			}
+
+			const newElement = this.createHistoryCard(container, entry);
+			container.prepend(newElement);
+			this.historyEntryToElement.set(entry, newElement);
 		});
+
+		const newEntries = new Set(entries);
+		for (const [entry, element] of this.historyEntryToElement) {
+			if (!newEntries.has(entry)) {
+				element.remove();
+				this.historyEntryToElement.delete(entry);
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (entries.length === 0) {
+			container.empty();
+			container.createEl("p", {
+				text: "No update has happened yet."
+			});
+		}
+	}
+
+	private createHistoryCard(
+		container: HTMLElement,
+		entry: HistoryEntry
+	): HTMLElement {
+		return container.createDiv(
+			{
+				cls: ["history-card", entry.status.toLocaleLowerCase()]
+			},
+			(card) => {
+				if (this.app.vault.getFileByPath(entry.relativePath) !== null) {
+					card.addEventListener("click", () => {
+						void this.app.workspace.openLinkText(
+							entry.relativePath,
+							entry.relativePath,
+							false
+						);
+					});
+
+					card.addClass("clickable");
+				}
+
+				card.createDiv(
+					{
+						cls: "history-card-header"
+					},
+					(header) => {
+						header.createEl(
+							"h5",
+							{
+								cls: "history-card-title"
+							},
+							(title) => {
+								HistoryView.renderSyncItemTitle(title, entry);
+							}
+						);
+
+						header.createSpan({
+							text: intlFormatDistance(
+								entry.timestamp,
+								new Date()
+							),
+							cls: "history-card-timestamp"
+						});
+					}
+				);
+
+				card.createEl("p", {
+					text: `${entry.message}.`,
+					cls: "history-card-message"
+				});
+			}
+		);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/logs-view.ts b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/logs-view.ts
index a7ea6228..2e3ea88d 100644
--- a/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/logs-view.ts
+++ b/frontend/obsidian-plugin/src/views/logs-view.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,26 @@ export class LogsView extends ItemView {
 		});
 	}
 
+	private static createLogLineElement(
+		container: HTMLElement,
+		logLine: LogLine
+	): HTMLElement {
+		return container.createDiv(
+			{
+				cls: ["log-message", logLine.level]
+			},
+			(messageContainer) => {
+				messageContainer.createEl("span", {
+					text: LogsView.formatTimestamp(logLine.timestamp),
+					cls: "timestamp"
+				});
+				messageContainer.createEl("span", {
+					text: logLine.message
+				});
+			}
+		);
+	}
+
 	private static formatTimestamp(timestamp: Date): string {
 		return timestamp.toTimeString().split(" ")[0];
 	}
@@ -34,12 +54,12 @@ export class LogsView extends ItemView {
 	}
 
 	public async onOpen(): Promise<void> {
-		this.updateView();
-
 		const container = this.containerEl.children[1];
 		container.addClass("logs-view");
 		container.createEl("h4", { text: "VaultLink logs" });
 		this.logsContainer = container.createDiv({ cls: "logs-container" });
+
+		this.updateView();
 	}
 
 	private updateView(): void {
@@ -60,20 +80,7 @@ export class LogsView extends ItemView {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			const element = container.createDiv(
-				{
-					cls: ["log-message", message.level]
-				},
-				(messageContainer) => {
-					messageContainer.createEl("span", {
-						text: LogsView.formatTimestamp(message.timestamp),
-						cls: "timestamp"
-					});
-					messageContainer.createEl("span", {
-						text: message.message
-					});
-				}
-			);
+			const element = LogsView.createLogLineElement(container, message);
 
 			this.logLineToElement.set(message, element);
 		});
@@ -87,6 +94,7 @@ export class LogsView extends ItemView {
 		}
 
 		if (logs.length === 0) {
+			container.empty();
 			container.createEl("p", {
 				text: "No logs available yet."
 			});
diff --git a/frontend/sync-client/src/index.ts b/frontend/sync-client/src/index.ts
index 9308c063..cb8a38a2 100644
--- a/frontend/sync-client/src/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/sync-client/src/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 export {
 	SyncType,
-	SyncSource,
 	SyncStatus,
 	type HistoryStats,
 	type HistoryEntry
diff --git a/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts b/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
index e6426fa0..4df4ae03 100644
--- a/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
+++ b/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import type {
 import type { SyncService } from "../services/sync-service";
 import type { Logger } from "../tracing/logger";
 import type { SyncHistory } from "../tracing/sync-history";
-import { SyncSource, SyncStatus, SyncType } from "../tracing/sync-history";
+import { SyncStatus, SyncType } from "../tracing/sync-history";
 import { EMPTY_HASH, hash } from "../utils/hash";
 import type { components } from "../services/types";
 import { deserialize } from "../utils/deserialize";
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 		return this.executeSync(
 			document.relativePath,
 			SyncType.CREATE,
-			SyncSource.PUSH,
 			async () => {
 				const contentBytes = await this.operations.read(
 					document.relativePath
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 
 				this.history.addHistoryEntry({
 					status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-					source: SyncSource.PUSH,
 					relativePath: document.relativePath,
 					message: `Successfully uploaded locally created file`,
 					type: SyncType.CREATE
@@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 		await this.executeSync(
 			document.relativePath,
 			SyncType.DELETE,
-			SyncSource.PUSH,
 			async () => {
 				const response = await this.syncService.delete({
 					documentId: document.documentId,
@@ -87,7 +84,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 
 				this.history.addHistoryEntry({
 					status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-					source: SyncSource.PUSH,
 					relativePath: document.relativePath,
 					message: `Successfully deleted locally deleted file on the remote server`,
 					type: SyncType.DELETE
@@ -118,7 +114,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 		await this.executeSync(
 			document.relativePath,
 			SyncType.UPDATE,
-			SyncSource.PUSH,
 			async () => {
 				const originalRelativePath = document.relativePath;
 
@@ -188,18 +183,18 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 					return;
 				}
 
-				this.history.addHistoryEntry({
-					status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-					source: SyncSource.PUSH,
-					relativePath: document.relativePath,
-					message: `Successfully uploaded locally updated file to the remote server`,
-					type: SyncType.UPDATE
-				});
+				if (!force) {
+					this.history.addHistoryEntry({
+						status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
+						relativePath: document.relativePath,
+						message: `Successfully uploaded locally updated file to the remote server`,
+						type: SyncType.UPDATE
+					});
+				}
 
 				if (response.isDeleted) {
 					this.history.addHistoryEntry({
 						status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-						source: SyncSource.PULL,
 						relativePath: document.relativePath,
 						message:
 							"The file we tried to update had been deleted remotely, therefore, we have deleted it locally",
@@ -253,13 +248,14 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 						responseBytes
 					);
 
-					this.history.addHistoryEntry({
-						status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-						source: SyncSource.PULL,
-						relativePath: document.relativePath,
-						message: `The file we updated had been updated remotely, so we downloaded the merged version`,
-						type: SyncType.UPDATE
-					});
+					if (!force) {
+						this.history.addHistoryEntry({
+							status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
+							relativePath: document.relativePath,
+							message: `The file we updated had been updated remotely, so we downloaded the merged version`,
+							type: SyncType.UPDATE
+						});
+					}
 				}
 
 				this.tryIncrementVaultUpdateId(response.vaultUpdateId);
@@ -274,7 +270,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 		await this.executeSync(
 			remoteVersion.relativePath,
 			SyncType.UPDATE,
-			SyncSource.PULL,
 			async () => {
 				if (document?.metadata !== undefined) {
 					// If the file exists locally, let's pretend the user has updated it
@@ -358,7 +353,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 
 				this.history.addHistoryEntry({
 					status: SyncStatus.SUCCESS,
-					source: SyncSource.PULL,
 					relativePath: remoteVersion.relativePath,
 					message: `Successfully downloaded remote file which hadn't existed locally`,
 					type: SyncType.CREATE
@@ -370,12 +364,9 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 	public async executeSync<T>(
 		relativePath: RelativePath,
 		syncType: SyncType,
-		syncSource: SyncSource,
 		fn: () => Promise<T>
 	): Promise<T | undefined> {
-		this.logger.debug(
-			`Syncing ${relativePath} (${syncSource} - ${syncType})`
-		);
+		this.logger.debug(`Syncing ${relativePath} (${syncType})`);
 
 		try {
 			if (
@@ -401,7 +392,7 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 			if (e instanceof FileNotFoundError) {
 				// A subsequent sync operation must have been creating to deal with this
 				this.logger.info(
-					`Skip ${syncSource.toLocaleLowerCase()} file because it no longer exists when trying to ${syncType.toLocaleLowerCase()} it`
+					`Skiping file '${relativePath}' because it no longer exists when trying to ${syncType.toLocaleLowerCase()} it`
 				);
 				return;
 			}
@@ -414,9 +405,8 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 				this.history.addHistoryEntry({
 					status: SyncStatus.ERROR,
 					relativePath,
-					message: `Failed to ${syncSource.toLocaleLowerCase()} file because of ${e} when trying to ${syncType.toLocaleLowerCase()} it`,
-					type: syncType,
-					source: syncSource
+					message: `Failed to sync file '${relativePath}' because of ${e} when trying to ${syncType.toLocaleLowerCase()} it`,
+					type: syncType
 				});
 				throw e;
 			}
diff --git a/frontend/sync-client/src/tracing/sync-history.ts b/frontend/sync-client/src/tracing/sync-history.ts
index 7d3b8f9a..d1c69577 100644
--- a/frontend/sync-client/src/tracing/sync-history.ts
+++ b/frontend/sync-client/src/tracing/sync-history.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ export interface CommonHistoryEntry {
 	relativePath: RelativePath;
 	message: string;
 	type?: SyncType;
-	source?: SyncSource;
 }
 
 export enum SyncType {
@@ -15,11 +14,6 @@ export enum SyncType {
 	DELETE = "DELETE"
 }
 
-export enum SyncSource {
-	PUSH = "PUSH",
-	PULL = "PULL"
-}
-
 export enum SyncStatus {
 	SUCCESS = "SUCCESS",
 	ERROR = "ERROR"
@@ -35,7 +29,7 @@ export interface HistoryStats {
 export class SyncHistory {
 	private static readonly MAX_ENTRIES = 500;
 
-	private readonly entries: HistoryEntry[] = [];
+	private entries: HistoryEntry[] = [];
 
 	private readonly syncHistoryUpdateListeners: ((
 		status: HistoryStats
@@ -75,6 +69,18 @@ export class SyncHistory {
 			...entry,
 			timestamp: new Date()
 		};
+
+		const candidate = this.entries.find(
+			(e) => e.relativePath === historyEntry.relativePath
+		);
+		if (
+			candidate !== undefined &&
+			(this.entries.slice(-1)[0] === candidate ||
+				candidate.timestamp.getTime() + 10 * 1000 >
+					historyEntry.timestamp.getTime())
+		) {
+			this.entries = this.entries.filter((e) => e !== candidate);
+		}
 		this.entries.push(historyEntry);
 
 		if (entry.status === SyncStatus.SUCCESS) {