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So, without clicking, what does this app do? What is it?


In brief, an extensible, syncable tool for making lightweight personal Markdown wikis. Emphasis on being very smooth and stylish. Emphasizes giving you a lot of tools that can suit a lot of writing/note taking workflows.

If I were to need to start writing a book this week, this is probably where I'd organize the research and composition.


It's a note-taking app that emphasizes non-linear writing.

You can use it as a journal, personal wiki, knowledge base, task management, or just a Markdown text editor. There are hundreds of plugins that make it easy to tailor the app to your needs.

It's also focused on privacy and future-proofing your notes. All your data is stored locally in a folder of plain text files.


(Advanced) note taking, often used in the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) & "Second Brain" community.


It’s a note-taking application like Evernote but open source. Has native apps. You can sync using a self-hosted sever easily. Works great on mobile too. Update: Oops. I always thought it was Open Source. I started using it after learning about it a HN thread some time ago. Downloaded and started using and it worked so good I didn’t have to look back about it.


Common misconception, but Obsidian itself is not open source


> You can sync using a self-hosted server easily

Do you mean using a third-party sync application (Syncthing for example)? All I could find is a feature request: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/self-hosted-sync-server/20975/13


It's NOT open source




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