Obsidian

Founded by Shida Li & Erica Xu in 2020

Store and connect private plain-text markdown notes locally on your device

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Obsidian to create, organize, and connect your personal notes using plain text Markdown files stored locally on your device. It lets you link ideas together with bidirectional links and view connections through an interactive graph view. You can lay out thoughts visually on an infinite canvas, manage daily journals, plan projects, or track tasks. The application supports community plugins and custom themes to adapt to your workflow, along with optional encrypted cloud syncing and web publishing features.

What Obsidian does

Create internal links between related notes using bracketsInspect connections across an interactive visual graphOrganize plain text files in local folder directoriesInstall community plugins to add kanban boards and calendar viewsDiagram ideas and insert media on an infinite canvasPublish select notes directly to a public websiteSync markdown vaults across desktop and mobile devicesStores plain text Markdown files locally on your computerVisualizes note relationships with an interactive graph viewLinks notes bidirectionally to create a personal wikiProvides an infinite canvas to brainstorm, diagram, and lay out notesWorks offline without requiring an account or internet connectionSupports thousands of community plugins and custom themesOffers optional end-to-end encrypted synchronization across devices

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price

FreeFree

Catalyst$25 one-time

Commercial (per user) (annual billing)$50 / mo, billed annually

Frequently asked

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