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Obsidian
1 year
Obsidian Canvas is here! Canvas gives you an infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas. Learn more:
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Obsidian
2 years
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:
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Obsidian
10 months
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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Obsidian
2 months
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…
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Obsidian
8 months
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
5 months
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…
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Obsidian
6 months
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…
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Obsidian
1 year
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
7 months
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.…
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Obsidian
6 months
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…
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The Verge
6 months
From the cloud to your computer: a new theory of how software works
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Obsidian
3 years
Obsidian for Mobile is finally here! Get it at 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:
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Obsidian
1 year
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Obsidian
1 year
🚀 Obsidian 1.3.0 (insider) is now available, with a brand new PDF viewer.
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Obsidian
10 months
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
8 months
A new bounty is open for Obsidian Importer: $2,500 to add Apple Notes import
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Obsidian
6 months
Here's how editing tables with Obsidian 1.5 updates the underlying Markdown content
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Obsidian
2 months
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…
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Obsidian
8 months
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 year
🚀 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
4 months
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:
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Obsidian
11 months
There are now over 1,000 Obsidian plugins 🥳
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Obsidian
4 months
Obsidian has been independently audited by the security firm @cure53berlin — you can find the report on our new /security page. Obsidian is designed to be a private and secure space for your thoughts. Since the start, Obsidian has been built to give you…
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Obsidian
6 months
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:
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Obsidian
9 months
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…
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Obsidian
2 years
Obsidian 0.13.14 is here! 🎄 • Live Preview • Preview images, checkbox, embeds and even plugin custom blocks • Spellchecker supports multiple languages • Learn more • Drag and drop to rearrange headings from Outline • Basic RTL support
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Obsidian
6 months
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…
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Obsidian
9 months
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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Obsidian
6 months
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…
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Obsidian
2 months
There are now 1500 plugins in the Obsidian community directory!
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Obsidian
3 years
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:
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Obsidian
3 years
🎉 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:
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Obsidian
1 year
Have you started your first Canvas yet? We compiled 70+ pro tips to get you started. Each one is super short! For example, you can create a group around selected cards very fast like this:
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Obsidian
2 years
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:
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Obsidian
11 months
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
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Obsidian
7 months
"The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software." 💜
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Obsidian
5 months
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…
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Obsidian
1 year
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:
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Obsidian
1 year
Please welcome Stephan as our new CEO! 🎉
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kepano
1 year
A bit of exciting news. I'm joining Obsidian ( @obsdmd ) full-time as CEO! ✨
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Obsidian
5 months
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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Obsidian
3 years
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:
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Obsidian
7 months
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
2 years
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:
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Obsidian
7 months
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
3 years
We're working on fixing the "only thing missing": mobile apps! 💪
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Obsidian
2 months
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
3 months
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,…
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Obsidian
10 months
The Obsidian roadmap has been updated and moved to our site. The layout now includes links to changelogs for our previous releases:
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Obsidian
8 months
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
4 years
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:
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Obsidian
6 months
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.
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Obsidian
3 years
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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Obsidian
2 years
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
3 years
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:
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Obsidian
1 year
💡 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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Obsidian
3 years
Oh snap... It can’t happen with Obsidian though, since everything is offline and end-to-end encrypted (Obsidian Sync).
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Jani Eväkallio
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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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Obsidian
10 months
Obsidian 1.3.7 (public release) is now available and adds PDF deep linking and "adapt to theme" option for PDFs in dark mode Release notes:
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Obsidian
2 months
You can now install Obsidian on Android without going through the Google Play store by downloading the APK file on our /download page:
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Obsidian
4 months
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…
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Obsidian
2 years
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: Download:
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Obsidian
10 months
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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Obsidian
9 months
Obsidian 1.4.4 (early access) is now available! Adds search syntax for Properties and lots of small improvements - Find notes with a property: [property] - Find notes with a property + value: [property:value] Both property and value allow complex sub-queries, such as…
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Obsidian
2 years
“I don’t give app of the year awards, but I would 100% give it to Obsidian for slowly taking over almost everything I do that has anything to do with text files.” — CGP Grey @cgpgrey
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Cortex
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State of the Apps 2022. @cgpgrey and @imyke talk about the apps and services they use to get their work done.
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Obsidian
8 months
Some of the new capabilities added for Properties in Obsidian 1.4: – A new UI for editing properties, with autocomplete for names and values – Properties have types (e.g. text, list, date, number, checkbox) making data entry faster and more accurate – Properties can contain…
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Obsidian
2 months
Obsidian Publish now supports full-text search
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Obsidian
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Obsidian 1.5.11 is now available to all for desktop and mobile ✨ - Lots of overdue fixes and performance improvements for mobile. - More fixes for the table editor, including drag and drop support as well as aligning multiple rows and columns at once. - Improved the Workspaces…
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Obsidian
2 years
Obsidian Mobile 1.1.0 is now available! It brings Live Preview to mobile and includes all the improvements and fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v0.13.24. Cheers!
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Obsidian
3 years
Thanks to all the complaints from people getting lost in Vim mode for making this happen! But seriously, don't enable it if you don't know your Vim! 🙀
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evelyn!!! @ FWA!!!
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this is hilarious but also really awesome ux
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Obsidian
10 months
Obsidian 1.4.2 (early access) is now available with more improvements for Properties
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Obsidian
1 year
As of today, Obsidian Publish offers more for less: 💸 50% lower price 💯 Faster and more accessible, at or near 100% on all Lighthouse scores 🔍 Improved search engine indexing 🌄 Pretty social share cards 🔀 Customize the sidebar navigation
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Obsidian
1 year
Are you building a plugin or theme for Obsidian? Today we're launching our new developer documentation: The new site includes tutorials, reference docs and guidelines to help you get started.
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Obsidian
3 months
We added new regional servers to Obsidian Sync. You can now sync faster by selecting a region close to you. Options include North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. All are secured with AES‑256, the strongest encryption standard.
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Obsidian
9 months
Obsidian 1.4.5 (early access) is now available! Adds support for 2-factor authentication and more improvements for Properties. Release notes:
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Obsidian
11 months
How can you be sure that your data is end-to-end encrypted? In this guide, we provide step-by-step instructions to trustlessly verify the end-to-end encryption of your data using Obsidian Sync.
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Obsidian
1 month
Obsidian 1.5.12 is now available and fixes a bug with the text entry cursor position on some Android keyboards.
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Obsidian
3 years
Obsidian 0.11.0 just dropped! • Colored groups in graph • Persistent folding everywhere • Right click link to rename • URI to create note • Hover preview for search results and backlinks & lots of QoL goodness! Download (or check for update in-app):
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Obsidian
3 years
📢 Quick PSA: We've increased the size limit of each vault of Obsidian Sync from 4 GB to 10 GB! Price stays the same.
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Obsidian
3 months
Obsidian 1.5.5 (early access) is now available for both desktop and mobile. Tables - Fixed brief flash when editing RTL tables. - Fixed issue where undo/redo would put cursor in wrong position. - You can now press backspace after a table to select the table. Pressing backspace…
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Obsidian
8 months
Obsidian Desktop v1.4.13 is now available. To update, manually get the latest installer from The installer includes an important security update related to displaying images. See Google Chrome security advisory CVE-2023-4863.
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Obsidian
8 months
Obsidian Desktop 1.4.14 (Public) is now available, with improvements for properties and sync.
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Obsidian
3 months
Obsidian 1.5.4 (early access) is now available for both desktop and mobile! This release brings the new table editor to the Obsidian mobile app, automatic formatting of Markdown table columns, and lots more bug fixes and improvements.
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Obsidian
3 years
Honored to be in the finals with Notion! For a small team like us (2) developing a local app, it's high praise 😊
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Katie Paxton-Fear
3 years
THE FINAL: Who will take home the Note taking thunder dome? Will it be @NotionHQ or @obsdmd
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Obsidian
1 year
The Obsidian website now hosts our Changelog and Blog, with RSS feeds for both 🌈
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Obsidian
3 years
Obsidian 0.12.4 is here! • New core plugin: Outgoing Links, see links from current note and link unlinked mentions • Quick Switcher gets an option to show links to files that aren't created yet • Tons of UI polishes and bug fixes Download:
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Obsidian
3 years
A little graph from our Discord member QuantumNeurotechnologist...
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Obsidian
9 months
First Obsidian Importer bounty was completed!
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Obsidian
3 years
Obsidian 0.12.15 is here! • Improved graph time-lapse animation to be ordered by creation time • Right click a heading to rename it and update all links • Right click selected text to search for it Download (or check for update in-app):
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Obsidian
1 year
1.3.4 is now available with several small fixes. Notably, we have reverted the behavior change for pinned tabs and "Open to the right", as it was causing issues for certain workflows. Release notes:
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Obsidian
4 months
Looking sharp!
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David Hoang
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My softwear to work on software.
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Obsidian
4 years
💎 Obsidian 0.7.6 release is here! Notable changes: • Mermaid diagram support • Add words to spell checker dictionary • Command and hotkey to fold and unfold all Download: Full release notes:
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Obsidian
3 months
Obsidian 1.5.6 (early access) is now available for desktop and mobile with more small fixes and improvements for tables.
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Obsidian
3 years
Obsidian 0.12.19 is here! • New core plugin: slash commands! • Revamped theme store, now with download counts and sorting options • Reopen closed panes like a browser with Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-T • Copy code block button • Enhanced plugin API Download:
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Obsidian
8 months
Obsidian 1.4.6 (early access) is now available with a few bug fixes for Properties
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Obsidian
4 years
Obsidian 0.9.10 is here with plugin API (alpha)! • Write and install plugins! • Search & fold lists in preview • Large vaults are much faster to launch • Obsidian URI: hotkey to copy URI & new search parameter Download:
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Obsidian
2 years
2022 and Obsidian 0.13.19 are both here! • Support embeds in plugin blocks like Admonition and Dataview • Support for headings in lists • Persistent undo history when switching notes • Search highlights and multiple cursor in Vim mode Download:
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Obsidian
2 years
Obsidian 0.14.15 is here! • Improved Obsidian Sync setup flow • Obsidian Publish collaboration • Obsidian Sync shared vaults • Rename block IDs with right click menu • Plugin errors in console now shows the plugin name • Lots of bugs fixed
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Obsidian
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Obsidian Mobile 1.4.12 is now available for early access! This update adds support for Properties on iOS and Android ✨
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