Obsidian is for taking notes the fun way

Obsidian is for Taking Notes the Fun way

What is Obsidian

Obsidian is a note taking tool that proves that power can come from stripping features.
At its core it is a Markdown editor, at the edges its a Markdown editor.

• Obsidian is free, offline, no sign up required, available on desktop and mobile OS's
• They offer a service for Syncing your vaults between devices (Paid service, $8 a month.)
• There is also service for Publishing files to your own website using the content from the vault (Paid service, $8 a month.)

What is Obsidian Trying to Do

Obsidian is a tool used to be Second Mind, a Digital Garden, a Zettelkasten, a PKM...
These are all fancy ways of saying: Take good notes, and you will use them.

How it Does These Things

Links

Link you thinking is the primary use and power that Obsidian offers over any other PKM I have used (I have extensively used OneNote and Notion before.)

Plugins

Obsidian has a massive eco system of plugins (They just crossed 1'000).
I use ~20 plugins... but I could stop using all of them and it would be fine.

The Cool Plugins

• Task Manager
• Confluence Sync
• Templater
• Linter
• Dataview
• Readwise Sync
• Slides

Where it Struggles

• It is a blank canvas. You can spend hours setting it up and re engineering it (I have done it)