What people previously said about Obsidian

“There are few tools I use everyday that I enjoy as much as obsidian.”

“In Obsidian use $math equations in LaTeX$ for inline math and $$math equations in LaTeX$$ For equations with spacing between paragraphs (centered).”

“I use code styler for my notes.”

“You’re using the wrong tool bud, download libre office and use cloud syncing like Dropbox or whatever. Obsidian is for markdown formats.”

“Which Obsidian workflows did you personally found useful to train these topics? For example, to keep track of environments, secrets, networks architecture and software architecture, model trainings etc.”

“Yeah the obsidian app people that want everything to be obsidian yessss more blessed design philosophy without predatory marketing please”

“I love obsidian and probably use it to 4.9% of its capability.”

“I am so invested in my obsidian vault, and need to know that it will still be around even if the company disappears, or the app goes down the tubes.”

“I only use the calendar/reminder Obsidian tools for low priority things. If I NEED to be reminded of something I rely on a calendar app (or a physical one if is the case).”

“This is such a good use of Obsidian. I want to do something similar but I don't really make notes for each significant thing I do throughout the day.”

“Easily the best piece of software & company culture I've seen in the past 20 years. Keep up the good work.”

“Would it make any sort of sense to use Knap to convert an Obsidian plugin's JSON to MD (I have a use case for this, and am generating via code right now).”

“I do mostly work task and note based, my calendar is integrated into obsidian but i barely use it unless i need to get notifications on the phone”

“I asked him if this was coming to obsidian, seems the answer is yes: https://x.com/kepano/status/2098263137468448918”

“I would never use it as a calendar because there's so many apps out that that do calendar-ing amazingly well. Apple Calendars and Google calendars are both fantastic IMO and free.”

“Everyday morning when I open obsidian, I am presented with this daily log from the previous day. One of the challenges I had with ADHD was I was not being compassionate towards myself because my brain wasn’t recollecting / not getting evidence of the amount of work I put in.”

“Will Knap syntax be recognized & highlighted in Obsidian markdown docs? Tooltips/autocomplete?”

“with my obsidian plan, i can use multiple vaults.”

“This is awesome, just the right thing to (mis)treat Obsidian as the database it was always (never) supposed to be.”

“I haven’t had enough experience in obsidian and coding to understand any of this lol”

“I run a commercial real estate advisory with Obsidian serving as my CRM, assignment tracker and management platform, as well as my main intel database/wiki.”

“Obsidian is a note-taking app... do you mean a filebase of markdown notes?”

“This is why I kinda hate Obsidian 😂 It’s so cool that I spend more time obsessing over aesthetics, organization, and plugins than notes and knowledge am supposed to capture”

“I'm both a designer and a cook, so when I started building my Cookbook in Obsidian, I wanted to bring those two sides together: a minimal, typography-focused aesthetic with a simple and practical way of organizing recipes. The goal was to keep the vault visually quiet and let the content do the work.”

“Having a scope : the vault as a folder makes it possible for obsidian to know exactly what files to monitor for changes or not, which ones you show in link auto complete or on your graph.”

“I mean why we ever need the idea of vault files? What is the advantage of that? Why doesn't obsidian native pdf viewer handle pdf just like pdf++, so we can be easier in external pdf?”

“I am wondering if using obsidian MCP for this purpose will actually help my usecase. Any other alternative is also appreciated.”

“All in, the limits are far higher than what normal usage would need.”

“Obsidian can be good for collaboration and documentation but most of it is paid, and sometimes clunky.”

“So I used a plugin to suck all my onenote notes to obsidian. The plugin was not perfect, though, and I had lots of job. Now I can run my lectures from obsidian. I am also self-hosting my files on a NAS server on which I run silverbullet.”

“How does it work on mobile when the Obsidian app isn't open?”

“Have not used Obsidian on Linux yet. Valid point”

“every single thing Claude knows sits in a .md file”

“Competitive products tend to fail for one of two reasons: 1) cost. Looking at you, Evernote. 2) complicated. Obsidian and I think Notion tend to fall here.”

“I switch from Notion to Obsidian and mainly use it for language learning. The ultimate pros for me is that Obsidian CLI helps me a lot when working with Codex.”

“- make a bibliographic note in Obsidian for the source you read”

“I'm really excited to see how this helps mid session. Ideally it will be quick and easy to find information. I enjoy writing my notes, but I can never find the information I'm looking for.”

“You can get quite a bit closer to a Google Docs-like experience in Obsidian by using plugins. There are several options that improve the editing experience beyond the default Markdown editor.”

“If you install the kDrive desktop client, you can keep each vault in its own local kDrive-synced folder and open them normally in Obsidian. Just avoid editing the same vault on two devices at once, since sync conflicts can get messy.”

“Is there a way to sync Obsidian with Kdrive from Infomaniak?”

“My best advice is to start simple, integrate it into your daily life and you’ll start to see more uses for it and get a better sense of what will make it work better for you.”

“I love obsidian and to me the live preview does preserve the markdown? What is exactly disappearing and reappearing with live preview?”

“I moved from Google Docs and was debating between Notion, Joplin, and Obsidian, and finally landed on Obsidian, but with a bunch of plugins.”

“Most children do not have all children and their lineages included... and the canvas still has to be mostly empty space just to fit what is there. Everything would have to be WAY further apart to put these branching paths with descendants for each person.”

“I do my writing in Obsidian but use Ellipsus for editing.”

“The process is going to be painful, but finding unique obsidian features to be excited by helps me stay motivated. Good luck!!”

“You're never going to be able to swap workflow and programmes without any adaptation. Google docs to obsidian isn't too hard”

“> As an aerospace student, i use obsidian to review my notes”

“It's true, a lot of apps still struggle with that lag. A plugin that enhances stylus accuracy could really change the game for note-taking in Obsidian.”

“It's actually the basic text editor that still doesn't let me move there. I don't understand how people enjoy typing in this thing. I'm constantly struggling while editing the lines and lists.”