Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge management application that uses local Markdown files. It is developed by Obsidian MD, a small independent company, and is known for its extensibility through plugins and its graph view that visualizes connections between notes.
- Obsidian stores notes as plain Markdown files on the user's local device, ensuring privacy and portability.
- It features a graph view that shows how notes are linked, helping users see relationships in their knowledge base.
- The app supports a wide range of community and core plugins for customization, including Kanban boards, calendars, and task management.
- Obsidian is free for personal use, with paid sync and publish services available for additional features.
- It was first released in 2020 and has gained a strong following among researchers, writers, and productivity enthusiasts.
Obsidian is a popular note-taking and personal knowledge management (PKM) application that works on top of a local folder of plain Markdown files. It's known for its bidirectional linking, graph view, and extensive plugin/community ecosystem, and is developed by a small team led by Shida Li and Erica Xu.
- Notes are stored locally as plain Markdown files, emphasizing data ownership and offline use.
- Features bidirectional [[wiki-style]] links and an interactive graph view of note connections.
- Free for personal use; paid add-ons include Obsidian Sync (cloud sync) and Obsidian Publish (publishing notes to the web), plus a commercial license.
- Highly extensible via a large ecosystem of community plugins and themes.
- Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android; the app itself is closed-source but built on web technologies (Electron).
