“I pay for Obsidian sync so I can't speak to how easy it is to sync via other means. One big upside I learned recently is if you point Claude Cowork at your obsidian vault it integrates seamlessly.”
“Look into Obsidian. It supports media, including PDFs, and syncs across devices. Although would recommend not installing too many plugins, keep it simple or it can get overwhelming.”
“Obsidian is just markdown so not tied to a specific program. Easy to share the files with something like OneDrive or Google Drive, and if there are things you can't do, there are extensions or you can build your own.”
“Obsidian lets me control where my data is, who sees it and I can back it up a hundred different ways. Add to that the ability to use scripts to update notes in bulk and there's no contest.”
“Obsidian is plain text and offers yaml frontmatter. You find plenty of libraries to read that and also Obisidian itself can at least list this informationen in bases. It's also easy to define templates.”
“Obsidian is what the OneNote I would expect in 2026. Used OneNote for 15 years, Obsidian for 1. i miss the Office365 integration OneNote gave me (tasks into Outlook/ToDo), but the pros in Obdidian outweights that by far.”
“Obsidian is a small company and it's their main product, so the company still has a passion and drive to innovate with it, respects their users, and is constantly innovating with it. That's why users are passionate about it.”
“Obsidian was WAY too complicated for me. OneNote is light years ahead in that regard—you can just throw everything in there, and it’s all right there.”
“everyone that's saying it's super easy, i've run into a million issues trying to sync obsidian between devices, and i'm not looking to pay obsidian for the sync.”
“I never took to obsidian even though I spent hours and hours and hours trying to get up to speed with it. It requires a little more futzing than I really am interested in.”
“I wonder if maintaining a generic Awesome Obsidian list makes sense. It's going to eventually mirror plugin listing sorted by stars or downloads, perhaps modulo being actively maintained (but is it such an important condition for a theme for example?).”
“No, I write in Obsidian when I have a note that I want to refer back to and document in a more extensive manner, compared to just the occasional Sticky-Note scribble.”
“It's insanely simple to setup, I use OpenClaw on a Mac at home with iCloud sync which includes all of my Obsidian vaults and then I turned on the Obsidian CLI with OpenClaw (but you don't even need that) as Obsidian uses markdown files.”
“All my major writing and editing are done there, and my vault is where all my files live. I load stuff into LibreOffice Writer if I need to produce something in formal manuscript format.”
“I am currently a dual study student, using Obsidian for both work and my studies for several years now. Along the way I have tried a long list of plugins, themes, and tools, and built and rebuilt more vaults than I would like to admit, testing approaches from GTD to PARA to LYT until finally creating a workflow that works for me.”
“You don't have to put every note straight into Obsidian. If you're on iPhone, I made "Quick Notes - Capture" to catch thoughts first and send them there later.”
“I'd love if I could do this clean up and organization process in Obsidian itself rather than having to export everything. I'm not interested in a complex layout with tons of art, but I'm not sure if this is worth pursuing inside Obsidian as it seems at conflict with the limitations of markdown.”
“I confess I want to maximize Obsidian utility but I don’t want to invest the time in figuring it out. I’ve done a data dump of decades of Evernote/one note into Obsidian, set up vaults, used AI prompts to help me with set up, it I still use it for a to do list mostly.”
“So, yeah, all of my notes and such are on Obsidian. I've even taken, lately, to using it to keep appointments and other little "remember this" type notes. It's been very helpful!”
“Paper notes, voice Notes and written Notes on mobile, scrapbook/Journal for ideas, sometimes whole Passages, spontanious idea discussions with chatgpt, digital notes on PC, and Obsidian”
“I get my notes and meeting transcripts and drop them into my vault which is also my Claude Cowork directory. So everything is in MD and edited in Obsidian. And then I get it to manage it all in a custom LLM wiki structure.”
“Personally I'm an advocate for keeping everything in the same vault but the beauty of obsidian is that if you find that your brain works better when you use a separate vault for each theme as you put it, then you can use a different vault for each theme, I find that the added friction of switching vaults for me means that I'm actually less likely to load up a vault that's not the one that opens on startup which is elevated by having everything in the same vault”
“Hi, i’m just starting my journey with obsidian, as a quick background, so i’m at the last year of my bachelor, in this year my schedule is not very busy, so i’m trying to use obsidian in the most efficient way and also to improve the way I keep the important information, one of my goals is to do a master and learn Deutsch, so do you recommend to keep an specific vault for each theme (bachelor, master, language, etc) or keep everything in the same vault?”
“What are your main issues with obsidian sync? its hard to recommend an alternative when you don’t tell us why the first party option didn't work. it’s the easiest sync method.”