Obsidian

Dynalist Inc.

About this app

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

It is a second brain, for you, forever. Now available on the go for Android!

Features include:
- Customizable toolbar
- Pull down quick actions
- Graph view
- Share to and from Obsidian
- Community plugins
- Themes
- Sidebar pinning for tablet

Ratings and reviews

I've used Obsidian for a couple years. It's a very good note-taking app. Vault (a paid add-on) makes syncing across devices effortless, but other cloud solutions also work. Composing in markdown's fast: your hands never leave the keyboard. It stores notes in markdown, so there's no lock-in: you can open them in a text editor. Once a note is synced to your device, you can reliably get to it even when you're offline. Quirks are in tables (a bit clunky) and the outline (hard to find on phones).

Just started using this for a worldbuilding project, and I'm a little addicted to the Wikipedia style linking and the filepath display. Sometimes getting links to work is a little frustrating, and I don't quite understand how to use aliases correctly, but I think those are mostly me problems (or mobile problems, cause this probably works so much better and cleaner on a computer). I do want a way to quickly find empty files, cause I've left a bunch of them lying around.

The interface is completely unintuitive, nothing is explained well, simple actions, like adding a file to a folder,are not obvious. For whatever reason, by default, they assume you want to use end-to-end encryption. I don't care about encryption. Then you don't find out until you're well into using the application, that syncing will require a subscription, and even then, it never actually worked.

What’s new

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.10.6.