I've started using Obsidian about a week ago, and I basically have new relationship energy with it. I've never used a note-taking application which had so much emphasis on simplicity and an ability to link my notes together in such a powerful way. With it, I finally feel that taking notes is making me more productive and effective. It's made me so excited to... work on things and research stuff? ᵒʰ ᵍᵒᵈ ʷʰᵃᵗ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶦ ᵇᵉᶜᵒᵐᵉ
I just wanted to take some time today to shout from the rooftops one thing about it that I really love and what it has empowered me to do.
i have used pretty much every markdown editor under the sun and obsidian is by a mile the best
not even it being electron can make it bad (and i am a passionate electron hater). it is genuinely some of the best software out there
it completely replaced all other plain text editors for me, and heck, you can even do presentations with it. you can make videos with it. you can integrate your calendar. you can use a git plugin to sync your notes around. obsidians plugin ecosystem is incredibly huge, there is a plugin for everything. and the coolest thing about it being markdown-based is that you have zero lock-in. markdown works with every markdown editor. and if you don't have one at hand, a text editor does the job too. i love markdown and obsidian.
I've used Obsidian to take notes while running an RPG campaign (Legacy 2, which is fantastic but also generates a lot of characters to keep track of, including player characters each new generation) and it was great for keeping track of everything and even being able to hover over a linked name and see a pop-up of the linked article.