What people previously said about Obsidian

“This actually makes me want to pick obsidian back up again.  Thanks!”

“Yes for the written half. No for being the place spectra and chromatograms live.”

“join the obsidian discord. there are some notes showcases”

“There is a youtube video I don‘t know the exact title but it shows a plugin which works with Olama (basically an AI software where you can use non cloud based AIs) and you just upload an image of your handwritten notes and AI transcribes it to a normal markdown file directly in obsidian”

“obsidian is great for linking ideas but yeah the setup can feel like a whole side project if you let it. i used it for my master's thesis and ended up spending too much time tweaking the vault instead of actually writing”

“I want you guys to share your "Non-Personal" notes or research notes that you made yourself using markdown or Obsidian. It can be related to anything.”

“Maybe use something like whisperflow (voice to text notes) and paste it later to obsidian”

“I still need to work out how to parse stuff from obsidian into foundry, but I am halfway there.”

“Obsidian is a simple -- but extensible -- notes app. Focus on the information.”

“The fact that the .canvas JSON spec is open source is amazing. For someone with visual OCD, it scratched the exact itch of being able to manually move, segment, and group pieces together on an open plane in a way that intuitively made sense.”

“Finding it again wants metadata, citekeys, tags, and Zotero is genuinely better at that than anything inside Obsidian. Remembering what you thought wants prose in your own words, and that's just a note.”

“Not bad, just wanna change the name obviously since obsidian is already a big notes app”

“the name thing is a real concern tbh obsidian already has massive brand recognition in the note-taking space and people will definitely search for it and land on the wrong thing. also curious if the camouflage mode actually locks down the calculator view completely or if someone poking around in recent apps could still see the vault ui?”

“Obsidian is a popular app. Consider a different name.”

“Obsidian also uses vault as a BIG KEYWORD, you'd lose on all traction OP.”

“Obsidian is a massive thing and it uses the word vault. Your SEO will be buried.”

“First: I think you should change the name, if you’re gonna launch it publicly, as obsidian is a note taking app too, so people can get confused”

“The main advantages of using this plugin, in my view, is not so much discovery per se, but the graph visualization and that the graph nodes are natively obsidian notes for the papers, so that you can study research topics in a structured manner.”

“THE plugin that made Obsidian what it is for me today. It replaced Motion.”

“I made a personal assistant plugin with Claude integration and it built an obsidian plugin fairly quickly and I’ve been iterating on it to match what I like.”

“Cool! I might finally be able to ditch my paper notebooks and integrate my obsidian and my handwritten notes.”

“**Been using NotebookLM for research but missed the graph view and linking of Obsidian. Built nb2ob to convert my notebooks automatically.**”

“Granola’s free tier is fairly generous, though you may need the paid version to access its MCP integration.”

“But, like you said, it's much easier to find in Obsidian (and I also enjoy the act of customizing CSS snippets to make my layout pretty, etc).”

“The idea is simply to remove as much of the surrounding Obsidian UI as possible and make the note feel more like a dedicated writing application.”

“Pdf2md with 2-3 other tools running in a container that runs cron job every 15min to search a pdf folder in my downloads for new conversions, spits it out to a .md converted folder ready for lint, taging etc and archive into obsidian”

“This seems to be easier to navigate, though I guess pulling citations must be done in Zotero instead of Obsidian”

“I use iLovepdf to create a docx file, I then load that file into IAWriter, and then copy paste the text into Obsidian. I'm sure that there are better ways but this works for me.”

“I personally use regular obsidian to make to-do lists and checklists. i have a template and label the note type "to-do" with status open, important, done, etc.”

“Personally, I use Obsidian in combination with TickTick to manage projects and tasks. TickTick has my tasks (and checklists and subtasks), shopping lists, household chore list, etc.”

“I found its best to use obsidian for everything if you need one place. I dont use google, or apple calendar or any other task app.”

“So, if I create a task in Obsidian. I wanted to show up on my iPhone has a task in reminders. It should also show up in my calendar, because that’s where calendars store it.”

“I’m trying to use Obsidian to organize my daily life, but I really want to keep things simple and avoid installing dozens of different plugins.”

“Yeah, I have a droplet in my downloads folder that I can drop PDFs onto, and then it shows up in obsidian as a MD. Which I have it get a special tag when processed that way, and then a base in my daily note that shows all the notes with that tag from that day to make it easy to find.”

“This results in me organically growing my knowledge base of my 178 required disease conditions I can be tested on at the end of the year.”

“I usually use a physical notebook when I'm not at home and I have an idea that I don't want to forget or that I want to write and then when I have the time I pass all the things I wrote into obsidian”

“meh, a plugin would have been better, most people writing on substack barely even use obsidian, much less know what a cli is.”

“I did a script with marker PDF that only takes the path of file in argument in cli command, I use it to convert even epub to PDF and then to markdown. It's mostly always very efficient and correctly formatted and retranscribed in markdown but I have nvidia rtx 4050 to speed up the process.”

“I love writing in the Journal 1st and then porting it over to Obsidian for the sole purpose of sharing 1 note or another with others.”

“I have taken this decision almost entirely to be able to work on Obsidian more comfortably on the go.”

“Quick, utilitarian notes still go into Obsidian on my phone (to-dos, reference numbers, hyperlinks, etc), but for anything where the writing is more than 30 seconds or a few lines, it goes in my pocket-sized commonplace book. Commute, cafe, park bench, hike, camp, all those third spaces where I'll write for more than a few minutes.”

“When ideas are formed enough to be seedlings, they get moved to Obsidian.”

“I write everything in Obsidian and publish on Substack. The handoff was the worst part of my week:”

“Anything that I'll need to remember or refer back to should ideally land in Obsidian.”

“the 7th is finally my atomic notes, connected with the first folder trough links the index and tags 😁”

“I am now doing medical school and I thought that obsidian might be a great help to keep my notes and resumes organized. Does anyone have a suggestion how I should do it or knows a tutorial video?”

“Fleeting thoughts, lists etc can go in there anything that needs to persist will go to obsidian”

“Obsidian does let me like you know take insta diary points so I'm still wondering what to do.”

“My handwriting was difficult to read even for me so I ended up using AI to decypher it and it did a decent job (all very non-critical data). If it was more legible I would've just used scans.”

“Obsidian stays the source of truth for content, Anki keeps its own review history separate. Deletions are the one thing you handle manually.”