What people previously said about Obsidian

“obsidian vaults are just folders. tell him where the folder is or just ask him to do that?”

“So I finally figured out a way to have Claude write to Obsidian in a way that fits my workflow.”

“Did you just turn obsidian into finder/explorer alternative?”

“I created a Canvas LMS api key for Claude (or codex, openclaw, Hermes, etc) and gave a specific folder that the agent is allowed to write into my obsidian vault.”

“I had a similar problem to solve and I found that Obsidian is not the right tool on its own for this.”

“So far I've been able to setup a daily note to track my chronic illnesses and plethora of medications for them, and it's been working out well. So, I thought it'd might be a good idea to figure out how to implement a way to easily track my university assignments as well.”

“I was quickly surpassing my peers through the combination of Obsidian, Anki and highlighting PDFs on my iPad.”

“Obsidian is more of a contextual brain for my agents now. I hardly ready things fully anymore, but I do organise instructions and files in a way that allows me to build custom tooling for myself around the conversations I have with others.”

“Just getting into Obsidian from Anytype and never knew that, thanks! 👍🏻”

“it keeps a separate system of summarized files for efficient retrieval of notes and context from Obsidian”

“In Obsidian, if a note is actually linked into others, you don't have to remember it standalone - you rediscover it by following a thread from something you do remember. The backlinks pane has done more for my retention than any amount of bolding or headers ever did.”

“Not interested in replacing Obsidian at all :)”

“It'll be interesting to see how it integrates with Obsidian. Jetbrains tools are usually pretty solid, so I hope it lives up to expectations!”

“My Obsidian notes are life. Every tech problem, how to, backend documentation, etc.”

“Is that a custom theme, or is this app a full new app to replace Obsidian?”

“Yes but not in Obsidian. It's not up for the architecture you need”

“My obsidian isn't updated as accurately as I want it to be. Any suggestions on how others are keeping the data flowing?”

“Obsidian supports all of that but you should still do a trial run before committing to it. Learn the ins-and-outs of Obsidian ([reading the documentation is in fact the best way to learn it, despite the many youtube tutorials giving the illusion that reading is unnecessary](https://obsidian.md/help/)).”

“Right now though my biggest problem is trying to get obsidian to open faster across 6000 files, only 1100 of which are the actual obsidian vault. The other 5k are just the working project folders, it's technically two separate libraries in the same vault so obsidian doesn't actually auto stamp the front matter of workspace docs.”

“Is there a use-case for Obsidian if not also jetbrains user?”

“Yes, you can do this in Obsidian.”

“I exported my Apple Notes to Obsidian, and over time I’ve been connecting related concepts together, along with my agent adding connections as it goes too.”

“The first page when I open Obsidian. I use claude to vibecode.”

“Like "opens a specific file"on start up setting in the Files & Links settings for obsidian?”

“I use obsidian for personal notes at work, but convert to word when at the point to share with coworkers.”

“Obsidian makes it easy to write well-structured text that - to me - is easier to memorize.”

“I see the many advantages of Obsidian over other notes apps But I'm wondering whether it's a good choice for me given that I'm looking for a true digital cabinet - one where my few 100 notes (so not thousands) can co-exist alongside some audio recordings, lots of PDFs, images and so on. Thoughts welcome?”

“At the moment it takes just shy of a minute to open and load all the plugins. Obsidian looks amazing though, my graph is amazing and I've made 17,325 YouTube videos about my favourite plugins and how to use Obsidian as a Second Brain(tm)”

“My trick for making a "more memorable" look for md files in Obsidian is to add headings, bold, italic, ==highlights== , links, emojis even.”

“But, Obsidian has made it even better through the fact I can give my vault style of my own.”

“Word document looks like a vomit to me. When Obsidian didn't existed, I use plain text Onenote; but never word.”

“I've started using quote blocks and color coded callout blocks to make obsidian notes mote visually distinct”

“I write a lot in markdown (using Obsidian, VS Code) and I’ve noticed I retain much less of what I wrote compared to when I used Word or LaTeX. My guess is that every file looks the same and there is no page layout to anchor things to, so I lose the cue of “where on the page was that.” I am curious whether anyone notices this and what to do about it.”

“have a central folder with an obsidian vault for each seperate profile, and use syncthing to move it down to my homelab. Security wise, I have infisical with passwords, usernames, and instructions in hermes to NEVER save anything in obsidian.”

“I hate the Obsidian publish option because I want to use the output from my notes for something else, not just a webpage.”

“So it will sync to my other devcies (via obsidian sync) without me opening the main obsidian app manually?”

“The extra skill doesn't replace what Obsidian's skill does. It just decides when to use the vault versus a separate reference store versus long term memory, since those are three separate things in my setup. If you're running one agent and one vault, telling Hermes to update Obsidian and letting it manage everything is simpler, and I'd probably do the same.”

“My Vault as a longtime Obsidian User.”

“If you’re using Obsidian, just let Hermes manage the vault directly with the Obsidian skill. Mem0 is for machine‑readable facts, not human‑readable notes, and Hermes already handles the “remember things across sessions” part natively.”

“I’ve only been using obsidian for a few months, but for me it does 3 things”

“Re-read and transcribe into notes in Obsidian.”

“reading mode is just the default view, it's not paginated like word and that throws people off at first. i get the frustration though, if you really need that doc-style layout you could try the pandoc plugin to export to pdf with proper formatting but obsidian's strength is in the linked notes thing, not the print layout.”

“I’ve been trying to switch to Obsidian for a few days, but it’s difficult for me because there’s no way to read my notes in their entirety.”

“Please turn your Obsidian to the Book of Dailes. We will recite Dailies: 2025-04-12.”

“Ive currently connected Obsidian and Mem0 to my hermes set-up, what would be the best way to go about managing this, is this even a smart thing to do. And what sort of memory set-ups do you guys use?”

“It's cool that you're diving into recipes with Obsidian! The frontmatter can be really handy once you get the hang of it, especially for organizing different types of notes.”

“there are two real self-hosted CRDT options for Obsidian right now, but neither reuses your existing Linux/Nextcloud accounts, both bring their own identity layer.”

“It does open Obsidian, but it presents a new native quick capture interface instead, which is different from the main app.”

“I've been taking notes using obsidian for the list three years but I've been very frontmatter-averse up to this point, opting instead to have a meta callout with fields instead on the off chance that I might use dataviewJS if I needed some kind of searching to happen.”

“Question: should I bother reporting the Android slow start time as a bug on the forum? It seems like there's I/O happening on the UI thread, but when I replied to your comment before there was no followup once I provided the startup report.”