What people previously said about Obsidian

Older than the 25 on Obsidian’s page
“I’ve had zero issues with Obsidian sync. It’s worth it and zero maintenance.”
pixeladdie · reddit ·
“Do everyone using Obsidian, gets color graph ???”
blackpearl75 · reddit ·
“Running the model inside Obsidian's own process bypasses that failure mode entirely — is that right?”
zheniavasiliev · reddit ·
“I’ve not yet connected Obsidian to that flow yet as I mainly use it as my context harness, but sounds like this is what you’re getting at?”
Hellofreshh · reddit ·
“easiest fix is to base64 encode the font and stick it right in your css snippet, you can use a site like transfonter to convert the woff or ttf file and it spits out the css with the data uri already built in, then just copy paste into your obsidian css”
inexperienced_gusto · reddit ·
“How to make a font used in Windows stay the same when using Obsidian in my iPad?”
bowiepowi · reddit ·
“Maybe the Obsidian browser plug in. You'd only be able to use on the Chrome or Firefox browser on a computer though.”
crmills81 · reddit ·
“Obsidian is more for long term thinking - storing things so that you can find them later, keeping notes that are quick for your future self to read, and that reflect your understanding of something that you can build on later, etc.”
earwiggo · reddit ·
“It's incredible to start seeing different aspects of my life start clustering together, e.g. work, university, family, hobbies.”
theboyroy526 · reddit ·
“Is there a way to link/sync liked social media posts ((specifically tumblr)) to obsidian? Sometimes I wish I could search through my liked posts instead of scrolling for what I'm looking for, so I was wondering if anything in obsidian could possibly help me with that. I'm also open to any app/site/program recommendedations that might help with my issue.”
catterpillz · reddit ·
“If you're new to obsidian, plugins might seem like extra work. Installing and learning how they work takes some time. But the value these plugins offer in habit tracking and scheduling+visualising tasks is worth it for me. Good luck.”
AVDRS · reddit ·
“plugin:word-smith:51303 Word-Smith: this Obsidian build offers no way to ask the file explorer to sort again, so a dragged row may not move until the folder is folded and reopened.”
suzumecchi · reddit ·
“check out https://obsidianvaulthub.com/”
Maws7140 · reddit ·
“But don't forget that at the same time you're learning your science & math you're going to be learning Obsidian. Doing so will shift your focus somewhat away from the subjects you should be learning to one you don't necessarily need to learn and which might become an obstacle to your note taking.”
3rddog · reddit ·
“I keep the videos and songs in the Google Drive, and paste the link in obsidian.”
inukshuky · reddit ·
“i would definitely check the obsidian discord/forum as there are alot of great examples there (especially the discord)”
MRAZARNY · reddit ·
“The power of Obsidian is its search, linking (back and forwards), pretty formatting, oultines. Tags, Aliases. Fast open by name or alias without navigating my paths.”
sfmqur · reddit ·
“Does anyone have an Obsidian vault or template that’s similar to what I’m trying to do?”
antonyious1 · reddit ·
“Like many of you here, I rely on Syncthing to sync my Obsidian vaults across my devices. The official client is long deprecated, and the existing fork is still stuck with an ancient UI and frequent Android storage/permission headaches.”
ywpc05 · reddit ·
“What Obsidian does help with is linking your notes so you can browse around effectively. But I'm not sure this ability is all that useful for the sort of stuff you're doing, and for a class that's already linking those things up for you.”
SharkSymphony · reddit ·
“It is, well, 'just' an editor (and an environment) for Markdown. Pretty good one, to be honest.”
olgampavlova · reddit ·
“Is Obsidian worth using?”
viennaaW · reddit ·
“Obsidian is an MD editor tool for me... If you want the act of note taking to help you improve recall, science has shown that writing with a pen and paper/tablet beats typing.”
SoroushTorkian · reddit ·
“I have been getting the hang of obsidian as I use it with my Hermes agent as a knowledgebase. I have separate vaults for my personal notes that are not touched by the agent and one specifically for it to write in.”
Admirable_Shallot752 · reddit ·
“Recently I noticed that obsidian is unable to get some video files I uploaded and now they can't be found. I can't keep all the video files in my phone because then I will run out of space and won't have any for new ones.”
Troll-boi123 · reddit ·
“Also forgot to mention I need to be able to search through my phone and don’t want to pay. Can I’d do that easily with obsidian ?”
sotirisdimi · reddit ·
“I use Obsidian as a second brain, and daily notes are probably the most natural way for me to capture things.”
utkuaytac · reddit ·
“I'm really enjoying making my lecture slides in Obsidian.”
nufiddler · reddit ·
“between skills and subagents and agents.md I now spend a lot of time writing markdown files, but I didnt like any of the current in-ide options, so I made dotmd, an obsidian-like markdown editor vscode/cursor extension you can call from the command palette with nice defaults”
max__drake · x ·
“Tell it where your obsidian vault is on disk, and ask it to set this up for you. Seriously.”
Healthy_Camp_3760 · reddit ·
“This works great on my laptop, but the password field is empty on my phone and desktop obsidian apps. The problem is that this field is read-only so the plugin does not work on desktop and mobile.”
TheBl4ckFox · reddit ·
“Helix Notes. It’s simple and fast searches too. Not bloated like obsidian.”
faisalfarooqui · reddit ·
“Obsidian is a Markdown client and the task management should be integrated into that workflow, instead of being its own separate system.”
Mundane-Elk-5536 · reddit ·
“I vastly prefer Obsidian. Many of my workmates live in Notion. And if this is for work there's likely a knowledge management platform they'd prefer you to put your notes in, such as OneNote or Confluence.”
Psengath · reddit ·
“But if you prefer save them as text files - Obsidian for sure.”
Icy-Juggernaut-4579 · reddit ·
“Definitely Obsidian”
AdLogical7286 · reddit ·
“Exported Obsidian notes with the right theme, just look clean, plus writing them almost never requires me to have my hands leave the keyboard. I do however usually put a call-out at the very top to break it up visually”
KidKang · reddit ·
“How does obsidian plugins work when you have several vaults.”
Sea-Replacement7541 · reddit ·
“You're basically describing an automated pipeline, input goes to Gemini, then it pushes structured data to Calendar and Obsidian. Doing all three synchronously in one smooth flow isn't something you'll find in a beginner tutorial, but the pieces are doable if you break it down.”
livelygamysharpness · reddit ·
“im kinda new to using obsidian and probably there is tutorial to do what im gonna say but yeah i don't have knowladge about any of this.”
whohan-g · reddit ·
“Obsidian offers a lot of ways to make that easy.”
scribblescope · reddit ·
“It sounds like Obsidian is just expanding the features to include more file types while keeping the default behavior for .md files. Should make things a lot more versatile!”
Ok_Apricot_6179 · reddit ·
“Rather than asking her, I just check obsidian.”
Disastrous_Term316 · reddit ·
“I've been using obsidian and ticktick for years and this sounds right up my alley.”
thegungeon · reddit ·
“Introducing myself to Astra via my Obsidian vault, enjoying its little notes to self”
_AashishReddy · x ·
“Each vault only has 1 or 2 plugins installed, making them fairly fast to load.”
Tsuki4735 · reddit ·
“Make sure you're doing it with the obsidian CLI. Then just write a skill that applies to all projects. I'll ask Claude to do this for you.”
redhairedDude · reddit ·
“Start your obsidian vault with 2 files 🧠”
AunySillyMe · x ·
“the ObsidianOS thing is kinda real at this point tbh”
Serious-Macaroon-465 · reddit ·
“I thought there was an mcp for obsidian?”
this_for_loona · reddit ·