The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: obsidian.md/community

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. If Obsidian benefits your organization, you can still purchase Commercial licenses to support development. Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits. Why make this change? Simplicity. The Commercial license terms were confusing and added unnecessary complexity to our pricing. Furthermore, as the Obsidian Manifesto states: "we believe that everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively". This change brings us closer to that principle. People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian. Many work in high-security environments, like government, cybersecurity, and finance. Some of the largest organizations in the world, including Amazon and Google, have thousands of employees using Obsidian every day. These teams rely on Obsidian to think more effectively and keep total ownership over private data. Previously, people at companies with two or more employees were required to purchase a Commercial license to use Obsidian for work. Going forward, the Commercial license is no longer required, but remains an optional way for organizations to support Obsidian, similar to the Catalyst license for individuals. Organizations that support Obsidian are now featured on the Obsidian Enterprise page. Your organization can be showcased by purchasing 25 licenses or more. Along with Commercial and Catalyst support, our add-on services, Sync and Publish help Obsidian remain 100% user-supported. In the future, we hope to offer more services designed for teams. As always, these will be optional.
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A new bounty is open for Importer: $2,000 to convert Notion Databases to Obsidian Bases and plain text files
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Obsidian Canvas is here! Canvas gives you an infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas. Learn more: obsidian.md/canvas
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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.
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Obsidian 1.0 is live! 1.0 brings a complete redesign to desktop and mobile. Plus, a new way to browse your second brain: tabs. Tabs make it easier to explore many ideas at once. Learn more: obsidian.md/1.0
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Save the web. Obsidian Web Clipper is our new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. Anything you save is stored as durable Markdown files that you can read offline, and preserve for the long term. Web Clipper makes it easy to shape Obsidian into a recipe book, a personal movie database, a travel planner, or read-it-later inbox. It turns your favorite browser into a sharper tool. Web Clipper is available for all major browsers on desktop and mobile, including Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Brave, Arc, Orion, and many more. It’s also open source under the MIT license.
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The Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources. JSON Canvas can be implemented freely as an import, export, and storage format for any app or tool. All the resources associated with JSON Canvas are open source under the MIT license, and can be found on GitHub. For the release of Obsidian Canvas we created the .canvas format with an open spec. We created this format because we felt it was essential to follow the principles that have guided us since the start. Your Obsidian data should always be stored locally, accessible offline, completely in your control, in open file formats that are easy to retrieve and read. For notes we achieve this by using plain text .md files with Markdown syntax, a widely supported format. However, infinite canvas data does not yet have a similarly established format. While infinite canvas tools are not new, they have been quickly growing in popularity. The JSON Canvas format was created to in hopes of providing longevity, readability, interoperability, and extensibility to data created with infinite canvas apps. The format is designed to be easy to parse and give users ownership over their data. The JSON Canvas spec is currently at version 1.0. The spec is relatively conservative, it does not support every feature that canvas apps may want to implement. However we think it is a useful starting point to build upon, and we plan to continue improving on it over time.
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Introducing Properties. A simple way to add tags, aliases, dates, and even link between notes. As always, the metadata is stored durably in plain text files local to your device. Obsidian 1.4.0 is now available for early access 💜
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A new bounty is open for Importer: $2,000 to convert Notion Databases to Obsidian Bases and plain text files
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You can now easily convert your notes to durable, private, local files, that you own and can access offline at any time. Free your notes from proprietary formats and databases.
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Obsidian 1.5 is now available to all! ✨🎅 Tables. All new table editor! Table rows and columns are now easier to create, edit, sort, reorder, copy and paste. Editor. New formatting menu. You can now right click in the editor to change text formatting, paragraph styles, and insert elements such as lists and tables. Sync. Version history view has been revamped for better collaboration, and easy access to major revisions. You can now use Sync for up to 10 vaults, and maximum file size has increased from 100MB to 200MB. Properties. You can now rename properties globally, and search now supports boolean and numbers within properties. Plus tons more improvements and bug fixes! Happy holidays!
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Obsidian 1.5 is now available for early access! This release includes a brand new editor for tables. Table rows and columns are now easier to create, edit, sort, reorder, copy and paste. These new table features can also be accessed via context menu, command palette, and hotkeys. Tables are still saved to plain text Markdown. This release also includes dozens of improvements and bug fixes — some highlights: - Properties can be renamed globally - Property search now supports boolean and number values - Number markers are now right-aligned in lists - Right click a callout to change its type - Defaults to system setting for light/dark mode - Improved auto-pairing to better handle apostrophes To download early access releases, become a Catalyst member. Catalyst is a one-time $25 donation that helps support Obsidian development.
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Obsidian 1.3 is now available to everyone on desktop and mobile! • New PDF viewer • Simple YouTube/Twitter embeds • Improved UI for nested items in outline and file nav • HTML tables convert to Markdown on copy/paste + lots more small bug fixes and features
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Obsidian Importer now helps you easily convert your Apple Notes data to portable files that you can use with any Markdown app. Supports tables, images, drawings, scans, PDFs, and links introduced in iOS 17. Three months ago, we introduced Importer as an open-source project. Thanks to contributions from the Obsidian community, Importer supports converting your data from Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Bear, Roam Research, HTML files, and more. The latest version of Importer tackles the most challenging format to date: Apple Notes. Unfortunately, Apple Notes is one of the few note-taking apps that does not have a built-in export feature. Because Apple Notes uses a proprietary format, it makes data complicated to migrate, and nearly impossible to use in conjunction with other tools. Apple Notes supports content such as tables, images, drawings, scans, and PDFs. As of iOS 17 it also supports links between notes. This breadth of content makes the conversion process more challenging. Here’s the good news: all of these content types can now be extracted using Obsidian Importer. So, how does it work? Apple Notes stores your data in a local SQLite database. This data is in an undocumented format, but it’s possible to decode how it is stored and convert it. Decoding the Protocol Buffers stored in the Apple Notes database was made possible by the work of Jon Baumann from Ciofeca Forensics and its adaptation for Obsidian by Mir Novov. Whether you’re planning to migrate away from Apple Notes or just want to back up your data, the new Obsidian Importer gives you the freedom to easily convert your Apple Notes to portable, durable files.
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Obsidian has completed a second independent audit by the security firm @cure53berlin. The report finds that incremental updates since Obsidian 1.5.3 maintained the highest degree of attention to security, and that no new vulnerabilities were introduced. obsidian.md/blog/cure53-seco… Particular emphasis was placed on hardening the Web viewer plugin during its development process, to ensure it would pass our strict security standards. We're proud to report that the Cure53 team reviewed the resolutions and concluded that their recommendations have been properly followed. We make Obsidian so we can capture our own private thoughts and ideas. Independent audits help us ensure that our code and procedures meet the highest security standards. We will continue working with industry-leading security firms to provide comprehensive coverage and transparency towards this commitment.
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Obsidian 1.8.3 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! - Web viewer. New core plugin lets you open external links within Obsidian on desktop. This makes it easier to read linked content without leaving the app and improves multitasking for web research. The plugin can be enabled manually in settings. - Improved iCloud sync. Obsidian no longer waits to confirm that configuration files have synced. - New mobile onboarding. This guided flow helps new mobile users create and sync a vault. - New "Download attachments for current file" command. Downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds. A few notable improvements: - When modifying a numbered list, the numbers are now updated automatically. - Pressing Enter in a multi-line list item now continues the list properly. - New "Insert footnote" command. Footnote autocomplete now provides a fallback to create a new footnote if no match is found. - Tags view now includes search. - File Explorer now includes an option to automatically reveal the active file. - Outline now has an "Auto-scroll to current section" option. - Sync now has a new view option, "Hide my changes," which hides your own file changes in a shared Obsidian sync vault. - Recently used commands now appear at the top of the command palette. - "Search current file" search bar now displays the total number of results. - "Insert template" command now sorts templates by file path and displays folder names. - <img>, <video>, <source> and <audio> tags with relative src paths are now rendered in Live Preview and Reading mode. - Graph view no longer considers Canvas files as attachments. See the changelog for dozens more improvements and bug fixes.
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Why local-first matters, from @verge "If Obsidian ever goes away you'll still have the app, if a plugin ever disappears you'll still have the version you installed... And if for some reason way down the line the app stops working entirely, you'll still have your folder of text files, because that's all it is anyway, and you can take them somewhere else." "If Obsidian goes away you'll still have Obsidian. That is local-first software."
From the cloud to your computer: a new theory of how software works trib.al/1Kk9fyh
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Obsidian for Mobile is finally here! Get it at obsidian.md/mobile We're also on Product Hunt and Hacker News today. If you're an active member of these communities, we'd appreciate if you can swing by to support our launch! Product Hunt link: producthunt.com/posts/obsidi…
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🚀 Obsidian 1.3.0 (insider) is now available, with a brand new PDF viewer.
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A new bounty is open for Obsidian Importer: $2,500 to add Apple Notes import github.com/obsidianmd/obsidi…
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Apps come and go, but the files you create should last. Our new open source plugin makes it easy to convert your Evernote data to plain text Markdown files that you own. You can download Obsidian Importer from the plugin directory, it's completely free.
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Obsidian 1.9.3 (early access) is now available for desktop and mobile, with more improvements to Bases: - New Cards view lets you display files in a grid layout - "New item" button creates a file that matches filters of the current view - Sort menu lets you easily sort items
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Obsidian 1.6 is here! - Faster load time on desktop and mobile - New vault switcher, and ability to hide ribbon - RTL UI and mixed-direction support - Revamped footnotes support - Countless little bug fixes and improvements Now available to everyone, on all platforms.

ALT Obsidian screen capture showing how to switch vaults with the new vault switcher

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Here's how editing tables with Obsidian 1.5 updates the underlying Markdown content
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2024 Obsidian Gems of the Year results are in! Explore the 33 winning projects across seven categories: – Best new plugins – Best new themes – Best existing plugins – Best tools – Best content – Best templates – Best integrations
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Obsidian Sync now starts at $4 per month with the new Standard plan. Obsidian Sync is the easiest way to securely sync your notes across devices, with end-to-end encryption, version history, and collaborative shared vaults. The new Standard plan includes: 1 synced vault 1 GB total storage 5 MB maximum file size 1 month version history As we state in our Manifesto, we believe that everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively. We are committed to keeping Obsidian apps free for personal use without any requirement to sign up for an account. Our add-on services Obsidian Sync and Publish allow us to remain 100% user-supported, and help us fund continued development. Because Obsidian is built on local files that you control, our add-on services have many free alternatives and self-hostable options. Obsidian Sync is our approach to making the most intuitive and secure sync option. With this new plan, we’re excited to make Sync accessible to even more people! See more detail and FAQs on the Obsidian blog.
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Obsidian Properties. A simple way to add structured data to your notes: dates, tags, checkboxes, lists, even links. You can also search notes by property and value. ✨ Now available to all with Obsidian 1.4. As always, your data is stored durably and privately on your device.
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Obsidian 1.9.12 is now available to all for desktop and mobile. - Search is now lightning fast - New migration assistant for Sync, and minor security upgrade - Disabled old versions of Commander and Image Toolkit that were causing issues in 1.9
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🚀 Obsidian 1.2 is now available to everyone, on desktop and mobile! The new Bookmarks plugin allows you to bookmark anything in your vault: a note, a heading, a block, a search, a filtered graph view, a canvas view, etc. + lots of improvements for search, hotkeys and more
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Obsidian 1.7 is now available for desktop and mobile! This update makes Obsidian much faster to load, and reduces memory usage. You should see significant performance improvements across all platforms. More highlights: - The new Sync History view shows a list of edits across the vault, useful when collaborating on a shared vault. Activate it using the "Sync: Show Sync history" command. - You can now click inside a page preview to edit it without opening the note. - Several improvements to Obsidian URI new and addition of daily. - There is a new tool (General → Advanced) to show the app load time. - Views now load only when visible. This might cause issues with some plugins, make sure to update your plugins. - Renaming files is now faster in large vaults.
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Today we're honoring 22 of the best Obsidian community projects of 2023 ✨ A total of 287 projects were nominated, including plugins, themes, tools, content, and templates. With the voting complete, we're excited to share the winners: obsidian.md/blog/2023-goty-w…
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There are now over 1,000 Obsidian plugins 🥳
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Obsidian has been independently audited by the security firm @cure53berlin — you can find the report on our new /security page. obsidian.md/blog/cure53-secu… Obsidian is designed to be a private and secure space for your thoughts. Since the start, Obsidian has been built to give you full control over your data, without the requirement to sign up for an account, or share any private information. Our new Security page compiles information about how Obsidian approaches protecting your data. It is also the home for security audits completed by third parties. Our first audit by Cure53 is now available, and detailed in the blog post. We make Obsidian so that we can capture our own private thoughts and ideas. Independent audits help us ensure that our code and procedures meet the highest security standards. We will continue working with industry-leading security firms on more audits that provide comprehensive coverage and transparency towards this commitment.
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With Obsidian 1.5 we will be deprecating the legacy editor, and continuing to invest in the new editor we launched two years ago. We're making way for exciting new features like table editing coming soon. Read more: obsidian.md/blog/goodbye-leg…
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Obsidian 1.4.3 (early access) is out! Lots of small improvements for properties. Inserting templates into a note intelligently merges the properties from your note with the properties in the template, making them more composable. Improvements - Settings: Added a new toggle to show properties as source (YAML) in Live Preview. - Templates: When using the "Insert template" command, properties inside template files will be merged with the current file. - Added a new status bar item that shows the number of properties in the currently active note. - The "Properties" heading can now receive keyboard focus. When focused, use the left and right arrow keys to toggle the section open or closed. - The Tags core plugin has been renamed to "Tags view." - The Properties core plugin has been renamed to "Properties view." No longer broken - Live Preview now supports single column tables. - The Property value autosuggest will no longer return stale values. - Fixed headings not scaling with base font size. - Numbers everywhere should now be formatted in the app. For example, word count and character count will have thousands separators. - Fixed bug where "Show file properties" view would not show the file properties on initial load. - Canvas: Frontmatter in Canvas cards is no longer hidden. - Added instructions to suggest boxes in Properties editor. - Enabled copy/cut/paste in Properties sidebar view. - Clicking quickly on close-tab button will no longer trigger maximize-window on macOS. - Added max date to Date and Time properties; so no more referencing dates beyond the year 9,999. - Fixed bug when selecting an alias from the link suggest causing the heading getting removed from the link. - Date and Time properties now use Moment.js for parsing meaning it will now be more lax when reading formatted dates in properties. - Search: The 'Show more context' button can be pressed multiple times in a row. - Properties: fixed typing accented characters in text properties. - Properties: fold state is now saved to the note. - Fixed issue with inserting properties when auto-pairing markdown is disabled. - Fixed the "Add file property" command not reusing the current file properties view. - Properties: disabled autosuggest for `aliases`. - Properties sidebar view won't show "add properties" button if the active file is not a markdown file. - Editor Search: Fixed issue where \´ character was treated as space (` `).
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Obsidian 0.13.14 is here! 🎄 • Live Preview • Preview images, checkbox, embeds and even plugin custom blocks • Spellchecker supports multiple languages • Learn more help.obsidian.md/Live+previe… • Drag and drop to rearrange headings from Outline • Basic RTL support
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We're excited to share some big improvements to Obsidian Sync! - Vault limit is up from 5 to 10 - Storage limit is flexible across all vaults - Storage will be upgradable to 100GB - Maximum file size 100MB to 200MB - Select your server region for faster sync Starting January 2024, these will be the new Sync plans: - 10GB for $10/mo, or $8/mo billed yearly - 100GB for $20/mo, or $16/mo billed yearly If you sign up before January you will get 50GB of flexible storage for $10/mo. If you are a current Sync subscriber your plan has automatically been upgraded to 50GB of flexible storage, 10 vaults, and increased file size limit. Your pricing will not change, including any discounts you have. Happy holidays, and thank you for being an early supporter! Read more on our blog...
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Web Clipper lets you highlight important passages, and select the elements you want to save to Obsidian. Your highlights are saved, so you can revisit them when you return to a page.
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Obsidian 1.8.9 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! - Improved performance for navigating large numbers of files in the file explorer - List auto-numbering now preserves custom starting numbers - When "Smart indent lists" is disabled, the editor no longer automatically renumbers lists - Fixed regression causing large vaults to take significantly longer to load and save the cache
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Obsidian Importer 1.1 is now available ✨ It's now easier to convert your data to durable plain text files accessible to you offline, forever. Now works with Notion, Bear, Google Keep, Evernote and folders of HTML files.
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From the front page of @WIRED — writer @jhpot shares his process for writing articles as they move from brainstorming to pitching to publication. "You can customize Obsidian to work basically any way you want it to. I've done this to create a perfect setup for my workflow—one that allows me to do my planning and my actual writing in the same application."
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There are now 1500 plugins in the Obsidian community directory!
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The Bases API was released just a few days ago and the Obsidian community has already created views for calendars (by edrick) and charts (by Lemons) See our developer guide on creating your own view types: docs.obsidian.md/plugins/gui…
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Quick update: Mobile apps (iOS & Android) closed beta is now open to all Catalyst members! In a few weeks, the app will be available to everyone once we finish the final polishing. The app will be free to use. Stay tuned! More info on the beta: help.obsidian.md/Mobile+app+…
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🎉 Live Preview mode is ready for Insider testing in 0.13.0! Live Preview mode, aka WYSIWYG mode, shows images and embedded notes while hiding clutter from Markdown syntax. Our final goal is that you won't need preview any more. Learn more about 0.13.0: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian…
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Have you started your first Canvas yet? We compiled 70+ pro tips to get you started. Each one is super short! obsidian.md/canvas#protips For example, you can create a group around selected cards very fast like this:
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Obsidian 1.9.12 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Search view is now lightning fast.
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0.16 is out for our Catalyst members! 🚀 In addition to a gorgeous UI update by @kepano, maker of the Minimal theme, you can now take and see your notes in browser-like tabs! We've introduced more UI customizations too. Read the full release notes here: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian…
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Obsidian 1.3.6 (desktop) is now available for early access ✨ • Adds deep links to PDF selections and annotations • Better spacing consistency across read/edit modes • Customize the app icon in Appearance settings + bug fixes and small improvements obsidian.md/changelog/2023-0…
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Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like Bases and Canvas were implemented from scratch instead of importing off-the-shelf libraries. This gives us full control over what runs in Obsidian. - For small utility functions we almost always re-implement them in our code. - For medium modules we fork them and keep them inside our codebase if the licenses allows it. - For large libraries like pdf.js, Mermaid, and MathJax, we include known-good, version-locked files and only upgrade occasionally, or when security fixes land. We read release notes, look at upstream changes, and test thoroughly before switching. This approach keeps our dependency graph shallow with few sub-dependencies. A smaller surface area lowers the chance of a malicious update slipping through. What actually ships in the app Only a handful of packages are part of the app you run, e.g. Electron, CodeMirror, moment.js. The other packages help us build the app and never ship to users, e.g. esbuild or eslint. Version pinning and lockfiles All dependencies are strictly version-pinned and committed with a lockfile. The lockfile is the source of truth for builds so we get deterministic installs. This gives us a straightforward audit trail when reviewing changes. We do not run postinstall scripts. This prevents packages from executing arbitrary code during installation. Slow, deliberate upgrades When we do dependency updates, we: 1. Read the dependency’s changelog line-by-line. 2. Check sub-dependencies introduced by the new version. 3. Diff upstream when the change set is large or risky. 4. Run automated and manual tests across platforms and critical user paths. 5. Commit the new lockfile only after these reviews pass. In practice, we rarely update dependencies because they generally work and do not require frequent changes. When we do, we treat each change as if we were taking a new dependency. Time is a buffer We don’t rush upgrades. There is a delay between upgrading any dependency and pushing a release. That gap acts as an early-warning window: the community and security researchers often detect malicious versions quickly. By the time we’re ready to ship, the ecosystem has usually flagged any problematic releases. — No single measure can eliminate supply chain risk. But choosing fewer dependencies, shallow graphs, exact version pins, no postinstall, and a slow, review-heavy upgrade cadence together make Obsidian much less likely to be impacted, and give us a long window to detect problems before code reaches users. If you’re curious about our broader approach to security, see our security page and past audits.
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"The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software." 💜
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Obsidian 1.5.2 is now available for early access! Many improvements to tables, Sync version history, editor formatting, outline, and more. Tables - Triple-click in a table cell to select the whole table. - Clicking on the drag-indicators is now a quick way to select the entire row or column. - Improved performance of the table editor when rendering large tables. - "Insert template" now works within table cells. - Dragging rows and columns in the table will now move the row/column instead of swapping it. Editor - We have overhauled our formatting commands (e.g. "Toggle bold"). The commands now support multiple-cursors, work across multiple lines, works with table selections, and even detect existing formatting in the selection and "intelligently" places the formatting characters without breaking the document formatting. - There is a new "Format" submenu when you right-click in a Markdown document to easily toggle the inline formatting for the current text selection. - New "Clear formatting" command to remove inline formatting from the current selection Outline - The Outline view now has a "collapse all" button as well as a search field for filtering the list of headings in the file. - The view is now registered with the "Page preview" core plugin. Preview individual headings in the note on hover. Settings - We've done some shuffling around in the settings. - "About" has been renamed to "General" and is now first in the list. - "About → Advanced" Section has been removed. - "About → Disable GPU" has been moved to Appearance. - "About → Override config folder" has been moved to Files and Links. Sync - When viewing the version history for a file, changes made by the same user on the same device will now be grouped together. And Markdown will be rendered to more closely match reading mode. Misc. - Reorganized the menu when right-clicking on a folder in the file explorer. - New "Search in folder" menu item when right-clicking on a folder - Improved appearance of inline code when it soft-wraps to the next line. - New css class for order-list-number (`.formatting-list-ol`). No longer broken - Search operators such as `file:` and `path:` are now case-insensitive. So you can use "FILE:" or "PATH:" now. - Outgoing links: Fixed issue where unresolved block links would render as an empty row in outgoing links view. - Fixed issue where links with links with custom display text (i.e. `[[link|alias]]`) would render incorrectly after a table.
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Not sure if an AI assistant is going to be helpful in your workflow? Don’t worry, we’ve eliminated the guesswork for you because Gemmy is 100% going to be unhelpful. Introducing Obsidian’s first assistant — Gemmy, the Obsidian Unhelper. Learn more: obsidian.md/plugins?id=gemmy
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Please welcome Stephan as our new CEO! 🎉
A bit of exciting news. I'm joining Obsidian (@obsdmd) full-time as CEO! ✨
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Obsidian 1.5.1 is now available for early access! Lots of improvements to the new table editor, including buttons to easily add rows and columns.
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Quick update: Mobile apps (iOS & Android) closed beta has started! Now accessible to Catalyst VIPs, soon rolling out to Supporters, Insiders, and then everyone, as the app gets more stable. More info on the beta: help.obsidian.md/Advanced+to…
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Obsidian Importer 1.5.3 is now available. Importing from Apple Notes now includes the text from handwriting detected in drawings. Plus several small bug fixes and improvements.
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Obsidian 0.15 is here! • Pop-out Windows: drag a pane out to open it in a new window • macOS got a new and improved app menu, as well as native scrollbars • Better keyboard navigation for File Explorer and Search Release notes: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian…
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Obsidian 1.4.16 is now available to everyone on mobile and desktop! ✨ - Properties are now supported on mobile - List values can be edited - New indeterminate state for checkboxes - Property types sync with main settings when using Obsidian Sync ...and lots more improvements
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Obsidian 1.9.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with many small improvements for Bases
Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.
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JSON Canvas, the open file format we created for infinite canvas data is now supported by several apps and tools, with libraries for C, Dart, Go, Python, React, Rust, and Typescript.
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Obsidian 1.7 includes a new mobile tab switcher, so you can see an overview of your open notes, quickly close notes, and reopen them easily. Now available in early access for Catalyst members.
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Obsidian 1.9.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Highlights include: - Cards: new "Card size" slider to view options. - Table: new "Row height" selection to view options. - New image() function for rendering images inline in tables.
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Obsidian 1.9.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members - New formula editor for Bases, with autocomplete and syntax highlighting - Bases remember your scroll position when navigating forward and backward - New commands: "Add item" and "Add view" for Bases
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We're working on fixing the "only thing missing": mobile apps! 💪
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Obsidian v1.5.8 is now available to all on both desktop and mobile ✨ - The new table editor is now available on mobile - Tables are now formatted as you type, columns will be aligned when you switch to source mode. - Many more small bug fixes and improvements For developers, we've added improvements to the API. See changelog for details.
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The latest episode of Decoder features a deep dive about Obsidian with @kepano, and why we're not rushing to add sparkly AI buttons everywhere
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Obsidian 1.10.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members with tons of improvements for Bases! - New List view - New Map view an official open source plugin - Bases API for views - Group results by property Many new table view features: - Keyboard navigation - Select cells - Copy/paste - Summarize results (sum, average, etc) - Undo/redo changes
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The Obsidian roadmap has been updated and moved to our site. The layout now includes links to changelogs for our previous releases: obsidian.md/roadmap/
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Obsidian 1.10 is now available! The mobile app now launches A LOT faster. We've also made many improvements to Bases: - New List view to display entries as bulleted or numbered lists. - New Map view to visualize entries on a map. Install it from the Community plugins directory. - Initial Bases API lets you create your own views. - You can now group entries in a base by a given property. - You can now summarize columns in table view. - Added keyboard navigation and shortcuts to table view. - New functions: random(), reduce(), mean(), stddev(), median(), and an html() function for rendering custom HTML.
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Two thousand plugins 🥳
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Obsidian Desktop v1.4.10 is now available for everyone! This release brings tons of small improvements and bug fixes to properties.
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Obsidian 1.7.5 is now available with various bug fixes and small improvements, notably updating to Electron 32 obsidian.md/changelog/2024-1…
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Obsidian 0.9.1 is here! We COMPLETELY REVAMPED the graph view. • Show arrows • See tags, attachments, orphans, and more • Tweak various forces for the best layout for your notes • Toggle in/out links for local graph • Keyboard navigation Download: obsidian.md
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Footnote improvements in Obsidian 1.6: - Autocomplete when you type [^ - Hover previews
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Obsidian Softwear. For analog connections. You can now preorder apparel and accessories with the new Obsidian logo. To be part of the first production run, place your order by November 28th. Ships worldwide. obsidian.md/softwear
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Here's a 7-year-old vault with 17,000 notes. Now with colors and looking good! 🌈 (Graph credit: shatteredorbit on our Discord)
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In 0.16.2 Insider release, we introduced Stacked Tabs! You can now switch any tab group in your workspace into a tab stack. Tab stacks provide an alternative way to view your tabs, reminiscent of the Sliding Panes plugin.
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Obsidian 1.8.10 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! - Fixed issues with numbered lists getting numbered incorrectly, e.g. when list items have leading spaces, or appear inside neighboring block quotes. - Android: You can now store vaults inside the app private storage which does not require "All files" permission. - Android: Physical keyboards and voice-to-text inputs no longer lose focus. - Android: Fixed bug where obsidian:// URIs would not fire their action if the app was previously closed. - Mobile navigation bar shows up immediately when keyboard is retracting, instead of waiting for it to finish.
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Quick update: Mobile apps (iOS & Android) closed beta is now open to Supporters (second tier in Catalyst)! We're soon rolling out to Insiders, and then everyone, as the app gets more stable. Stay tuned! More info on the beta: help.obsidian.md/Mobile+app+…
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💡 Canvas Protip #1 One of the easiest ways to populate the canvas is to drag and drop items (files or folders) from the File Explorer!
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Oh snap... It can’t happen with Obsidian though, since everything is offline and end-to-end encrypted (Obsidian Sync).
Yet another note-taking app raises a $5.6M seed. Let's read the TechCrunch article and try to figure out why Oh, that's why
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The new Web Viewer plugin in Obsidian 1.8 (early access) makes editing websites fluid and fun.
a quick demo of how I edit my website with Obsidian 1.8 write in @obsdmd → auto-build jekyll → preview local site in web viewer tab → push to github → auto-deploy to live site I've been making websites for twenty five years, and this is by far the nicest it's ever been
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Obsidian Importer now lets you generate Markdown files from a CSV. It converts thousands records in seconds and automatically generates a Base that you can use to explore and edit the data.
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Obsidian 1.6.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members on desktop. - Improved overall app loading time. - Dozens of fixes and improvements for footnotes. Added support for footnote previewing on hover. - Obsidian Sync received some polish and speed improvements. - Completely revamped support for RTL languages.
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Obsidian 1.8.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile! - New web viewer plugin - New command to download local images - Improvements for iCloud on mobile Web viewer is a new core plugin that lets you open external links within Obsidian. This simplifies reading linked content without leaving the app and makes multitasking on web research projects easier. This plugin is disabled by default, and needs to be enabled manually in settings. Download attachments for current file is a new command that downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds. iCloud no longer waits to finish syncing your configuration files. If a configuration file was offloaded, it will be redownloaded and you will be prompted to reload the app once the file was been synced. See the full release notes at /changelog
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Obsidian 1.9.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members with many improvements for Bases: - Formula syntax is now more expressive and powerful. - Added number of results in the current view. - Table cells with long text now expand to show the entire content when selected. - Operator dropdown for filters is now searchable.
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You can now install Obsidian on Android without going through the Google Play store by downloading the APK file on our /download page: obsidian.md/download
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Obsidian 1.8.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile — lots of small bug fixes.
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Thanks to everyone who nominated projects for Gems of the Year 2023. Now it's time to vote! Join us on Discord to cast your votes. This year we are honoring plugins, themes, tools, and content that have never been recognized in any of our previous awards. Our categories this year: - Best new plugin - Best new theme - Best plugin update - Best tool - Best template - Best content Best new plugin 3D Graph by HananoshikaYomaru Better Search Views by ivan-lednev ChatCBT by clairefro Chem by Acylation Clipper by jgchristopher Copilot for Obsidian by logancyang Easy Bake by mgmeyers File Color by ecustic Folder Notes by LostPaul Geocoding Properties by jose-elias-alvarez HelpMate by TfTHacker Home Tab by olrenso Image Converter by xRyul Modal Form by danielo515 ODIN by memgraph Omnivore by Omnivore Open Gate by nguyenvanduocit Piece for Developers by pieces-app Smart Connections by brianpetro Time Ruler by joshuatazrein Best new theme Border by Akifyss Flexoki by kepano Halcyon by dbarenholz Tokyo Night by tcmmichaelb139 Vicious by zaheralmajed Best plugin update Advanced URI by Vinzent03 Custom Frames by Ellpeck Dataloom by trey-wallis Day Planner by ivan-lednev Digital Garden by oleeskild Editing toolbar by PKM-er Full Calendar by davish Git by denolehov Iconize by FlorianWoelki Kanban by mgmeyers Latex Suite by artisticat1 Linter by platers Meta Bind by mProjectsCode Metadata Menu by mdelobelle OmniSearch by scambier Periodic Notes by liamcain Quick Switcher++ by darlal QuickAdd by chhoumann Various Complements by tadashi-aikawa Zotero Integration by mgmeyers Best tool Actions for Obsidian by Carlo Zottmann Canvas Candy by TfTHacker Khoj by khoj-ai Metadata by natelandau Obsidian Web Chrome Extension by coddingtonbear Quartz by jzhao Remote by sytone Rushi's Obsidian CSS Snippets Collection by r-u-s-h-i-k-e-s-h TTRPG-Convert-CLI by ebullient Web Clipper Bookmarklet by kepano Best template Grow Your Mind Garden Starter Kit by Angie Bowen Dashboard++ by TfTHacker Dataview Deep Dive by xDovos Ideaverse by nickmilo Kepano Vault Template by kepano LifeOS by quanru OB_Template by llZektorll Obsidian Project Management Vault by DA Shop Snifer Cornell Notes by Snifer TfTHacker Cornell Notes by TfTHacker Best content Capture to do. How I manage literally all my tasks in Obsidian by Geet Duggal Danny Hatcher's YouTube channel by DannyHatcher Hack your brain with Obsidian by No Boilerplate How to use Obsidian as CRM by Marco Serafini LeanProductivity Obsidian Videos by leanproductivity MacSparky Obsidian Field Guide by David Sparks Nicole van der Hoeven by Nicole van der Hoeven Obsidian TTRPG Community by Obsidian-TTRPG-Community Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials by JP_Sklore Obsidian Tutorial for Academic Writing by Leonardo Castorina The Obsidian Observer by TfTHacker Zotero Kanban Reading List guide - Workflow and Setup Guide by FeralFlora Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management by Zsolt
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Obsidian 0.14.2 is here! • Callout (aka Admonition) is now available as part of core • Indentation Guides to make your lists look nice • Basic table rendering in Live Preview Read more about callouts: help.obsidian.md/Use+callout… Download: obsidian.md
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We have added contribution guidelines to the official Obsidian Importer plugin. We're experimenting with something new: bounties. You can get paid to add features that will help people convert their data from Notion/OneNote/etc to plain text Markdown files.
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Softwear update: "Fractal" is now available on the Obsidian merch store, silkscreened on t-shirts and hoodies. Place your order before December 2 to receive it by December 25, if you're located in the US. Worldwide shipping is also available, but delivery may take longer depending on your country. All items are available through @cottonbureau and ship from Pennsylvania.
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