Obsidian - A powerful knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

I've never been involved in any software testing until I stumbled upon Obsidian a couple weeks ago, been testing it with a bunch of other PKM nerds and #Roamcult refugees ever since, it's been a quite exiting and rewarding experience. Really looking forward to the plugin ecosystem, no doubt it is going to become one of the most promising PKM solutions in the future. Bravo to @erica_xu @shida_li !

Obsidian is the tool I wish I could have built years ago. The community is the best part! I love the experience. The cherry on top would be if it had support for Vim navigations or some type of hotkeys. I would never have to leave my keyboard.

Closest note-taking product to a physical notebook. I love the simplicity and - the pace at which you ship new features is mind-blowing.

I love the fact that Obsidian is built around using non-proprietary, plain-text, Markdown files. This ensure that regardless of what happens to applications and platforms, your notes will still be just as useful 10 or 20 years from now as they are today! I'm going all-in on Obsidian and suggest if owning your data is important to you, that you do too!

I have imported a year's worth of markdown notes into Obsidian and use it every day. It has been a pleasure to watch this product develop.

I've been a long time user of Dynalist, which I settled upon after evaluating several other apps for GTD and BuJo. I've been kind of tempted to explore a different app ever since I came across RoamResearch, the ideology behind networked thought and bidirectional linking felt so relevant for a PKM. I tested out Notion, Zettlr, Org mode and went through RoamResearch reviews(still haven't got my invite). I found about Obsidian from a comment buried deep inside a HackerNews post which mentioned that it was from the makers of Dynalist. After comparing all of them I'm planning to stick with Obsidian, their core values resonates well with my must haves: Portability - I don't want to be locked into an ecosystem which makes it harder for me to migrate, .md ftw! Plugin support - looks like they plan to allow devs build plugins for Obsidian Shoutout to the Obsidian Discord community, a bunch of extremely approachable PKM nerds. Thank you @erica_xu @shida_li for Obsidian & Dynalist!

The fundamental product decisions @ open format, offline-first, privacy-first are very strong differentiators compared to similar products. Excited about all the development in single-player power tools including knowledge management.

I've been experimenting with Obsidian in the beta for a little while and it's really, really nice. I definitely prefer Bear when I'm on my Mac, but because I switch between Mac and PC regularly, have been looking for a simple alternative. Obsidian is hitting that mark with the ability to customize the look and feel with CSS, and the links between documents. Having my "vault" of notes in a Dropbox folder is the hacky way I have going for sharing between computers, looking forward to seeing where the app goes in this regard.

This is a brilliant tool. Traditionally an Evernote + Notion user and used to dropping in loads of information into hierarchical systems. For me, the greatest benefit of Obsidian and other knowledge management tools is the combination of establishing connections and search which makes it easy to not only record information, but also improve the speed of accessibility. Looking forward to the plugin ecosystem and would love to see nested bullets organized in a roam-like fashion. Thank you @erica_xu & @shida_li - Well done.

Obsidian got a lot of traction and was built with the need that Roam created, backlinks + markdown like writing, graph and multiple other features. However it's been clear that while roam has done some amazing stuff they are not getting the core right. The core of any note taking app is that we should trust that it will act as a second brain and will always be available (offline), it also should be extensible to get the best brains in the world add capabilities (plugin system). This is where you move from a bare note taking app to a full productivity system. I love the transparancy and how the creators really listen to the community. This is a big difference between the roam creator Conor vs the makers of Obsidian. Each day I am really looking forward to the new things they are adding and boy do they do well. I hope that this works out, and I'll be backing this because I believe we have found Obsidian is the new diamond