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Obsidian

A connected workspace for your thoughts. Local-first, Markdown-powered notes.

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2026-08-04Latest mention

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I use Obsidian to organize knowledge around things that are personally interesting to me.

I like obsidian because linking stuff is fun.

I like Obsidian

Edit: as for the rest of it, I love using Obsidian for ~everything.

@criddell2026-07-24

I love Obsidian too,

@phil422026-07-14

Obsidian works well,

@j1elo2026-07-14

I'm just in the toying and evaluation phase with Obsidian and so far I like it,

Typing ### for heading 3 is what I love about Obsidian.

@rnxrx2026-06-26

I use Obsidian as a persistent context store and knowledge graph (..loosely defined, i.e.

I like the new Obsidian features like the CLI a lot

@prox2026-05-27

I like Obsidian for note taking and it does have an infinite canvas,

@skrtskrt2026-05-20

It’s the only extension I use in Obsidian.