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Obsidian

Obsidian

A versatile writing app tailored to your thinking

•559 reviews•10 shoutouts•

3.4K followers

2020 Golden Kitty Awards
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Awards
2020 Golden Kitty Awards
2020 Golden Kitty Awards
Obsidian 1.0 was ranked #2 of the month for October 2022
Obsidian for Mobile was ranked #5 of the month for July 2021
Obsidian 1.0 was ranked #2 of the week for October 13th, 2022
Obsidian for Mobile was ranked #1 of the week for July 12th, 2021
Obsidian 1.0 was ranked #2 of the day for October 13th, 2022
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Rajiv Ayyangar
Rajiv Ayyangar
Is Obsidian really that much better vs Bear? Should I switch?
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4mo ago

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Erica Xu
Erica Xu
Obsidian Canvas - An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas
•45•

2yr ago

Obsidianp/obsidian
Erica Xu
Erica Xu
Obsidian 1.0 - A brand new look, a fresh way to browse, a new start
•70•

2yr ago

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Motiff

Motiff

Launching soon!
•4 reviews

Personal knowledge management tool.

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1yr ago
owlyph
owlyph
•3 reviews

Really excellent tool, especially for long-form note-taking. The user interface has an overall elegance that makes this tool stand-out. It would be five stars if the developers truly respected user freedom by making Obsidian open source software.

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4yr ago
Francisco Ceruti
Francisco Ceruti
•1 review

Definitely feels like there are layers to this product I'm not using, but as a n00b I still get tons of value.

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2yr ago
Joshua Hustler
Joshua Hustler
•2 reviews

Very steep learning curve. Adding Nick Milo's LYT framework on top really helped me focus on what was required to make this a useful PKM for me!

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2yr ago
Marc
Marc
•20 reviews

Great note taking app and also good for creating a knowledge database. It can be synced using a paid plan, but it is also easy to sync via OneDrive or Google Drive. I really like it to work on complex projects for university.

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2yr ago
Muhammad Iqbal Dar
Muhammad Iqbal Dar
•4 reviews

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2yr ago
Susan Pearson
Susan Pearson
•16 reviews

I love Obsidian, I love that it can be anything you want it to be. For a while I tried to make it everything but recently I realised that 60+ plugins to do everything possible was basically Obsidian abuse. I have now realised that Obsidian does one thing brilliantly. It handles knowledge. So now I am using it as my complete second brain. I am using plugins like banners and call out manager to make it look pretty, I need that. I am using Templater and Dataview because hello, why wouldn't you and I am using the Tasks plugin with all the optional statuses so they show things like bookmarks and alerts. Also for knowledge based tasks, it I need to research this subject etc. I am moving the rest of my standard tasks back out into a tool that was designed for that very purpose, because it makes sense to do so.

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2yr ago
CHII
CHII
•1 review

New to Obsidian but loving it

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4mo ago
David Ogundeko
David Ogundeko
•5 reviews

My second brain. The back-linking of notes and the graph view of how all your notes are connected are akin to science fiction but life has been known to be stranger than fiction anyway. Obsidian, killed my 10 year+ relationship with Evernote in 30 minutes.

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1yr ago
Were Samson Bruno
Were Samson Bruno
KéMeet

KéMeet

•9 reviews

One of the best thought organisation and note-taking tools(if not the best) that also maintains 100% privacy for your data because it is fully localised. There's a lot I haven't discovered yet but I am digging it out.

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1yr ago

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