<story><title>Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files</title><url>https://obsidian.md/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kepano</author><text>This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native app, and now we have a dozen great options to choose from.&lt;p&gt;I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it.&lt;p&gt;What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this area, is that they have made extensibility a top priority. The sheer breadth of plugins, themes, and other community-driven tools that have been generated in 18 months is spectacular. It makes it easy to recommend Obsidian because you can shape it into whatever you want.&lt;p&gt;There are a handful of plugins like Dataview, QuickAdd, Kanban and Periodic Notes that make Obsidian an incredibly powerful environment for thought.&lt;p&gt;I made a theme for Obsidian called Minimal that attempts to make the app feel more native, especially on Mac:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;obsidian-minimal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;obsidian-minimal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;...and published a couple of my own plugins and a Web Clipper bookmarklet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987ca3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Obsidian community is just so fun, friendly, and collaborative, that you can&amp;#x27;t help but get involved and work on making the ecosystem better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sureglymop</author><text>Obsidian is great but I still prefer VSCode for creating these types of interconnected markdown notes on desktop.
Mainly because of the sheer amount of extensions available for VS Code. For example, I can write Jupyter notebooks in markdown files and let them be part of my notes but also open them as notebooks and execute code right in VS Code.&lt;p&gt;I do love Obsidian mobile though, undefeated on mobile!</text></comment>
<story><title>Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files</title><url>https://obsidian.md/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kepano</author><text>This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native app, and now we have a dozen great options to choose from.&lt;p&gt;I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it.&lt;p&gt;What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this area, is that they have made extensibility a top priority. The sheer breadth of plugins, themes, and other community-driven tools that have been generated in 18 months is spectacular. It makes it easy to recommend Obsidian because you can shape it into whatever you want.&lt;p&gt;There are a handful of plugins like Dataview, QuickAdd, Kanban and Periodic Notes that make Obsidian an incredibly powerful environment for thought.&lt;p&gt;I made a theme for Obsidian called Minimal that attempts to make the app feel more native, especially on Mac:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;obsidian-minimal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;obsidian-minimal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;...and published a couple of my own plugins and a Web Clipper bookmarklet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987ca3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;kepano&amp;#x2F;90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Obsidian community is just so fun, friendly, and collaborative, that you can&amp;#x27;t help but get involved and work on making the ecosystem better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runjake</author><text>Can concur, his Minimal theme is really awesome and looks Mac-native.&lt;p&gt;His theme played a huge part in getting me to make the jump from Bear Notes to Obsidian as I try to move away from Mac-specific apps to cross-platform (macOS and Linux) options.</text></comment>