Obsidian
obsidian.mdThe free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
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About
Obsidian is a private, local-first note-taking app that stores all notes as plain text files on your device. It offers a highly customizable experience through thousands of community plugins and themes, allowing users to tailor it to their personal thinking style. Because it uses open file formats, users retain full ownership and long-term access to their data.
Problem
People need a private, flexible, and future-proof way to capture and organize their thoughts without being locked into a proprietary platform.
For
knowledge workers, writers, researchers, and anyone who wants to organize their thoughts privately
How it works
Obsidian saves notes as plain Markdown files locally on the user's device and provides a rich interface with graph views, plugins, and themes to connect and manage that knowledge.
Business model
freemium
Status
launched
Company
Obsidian