10 Features I like about Obsidian
Like many people who discovered this app, I have become obsessed. My kids are both going to university, and I recommend it to both of them. I also recommend it highly to anybody who does anything with software, big data, computers or anything else. It is super useful for academics or anyone using it for knowledge management /second brain. A full-featured version is also free to use (at this time). I pay a few dollars a month for their sync features.
1. Very fast
It edits local text files. You can create directories and files as fast as you can type.
2. Uses old school hyperlinks/hypertext
Connect your thoughts using Hyperlinks as originally intended:
3. Not proprietary
This is a tremendous benefit. All of your data always belongs to you. I have used many knowledge systems for work, and you're stuck in their system until you give up and stop paying. You can open these files in any text editor, and they are industry-standard Markdown files.
I wrote scripts to import all my Trello boards (and canceled Trello).
4. Markdown rendering
Markdown is an easy to learn progressive formatting system using plain text. It is also universally understood by many computer systems.
5. Synchronization
I pay for their version of this which works very well across any computer. You can also sync using iCloud or Google Drive.
6. Print to PDF
Obsidian makes very attractive PDFs.
7. Code coloring
Using tags you get color-coded output:
8. Excellent search
Intelligent search everywhere and very fast.
For example if you have a note titled "Green things to eat" You can find it by typing "ee th ea": it matches on partial words.
9. Great for writing books
I had been using VS code for this. Obsidian is better and faster for this purpose.
10. "Vault" concept
I have two so far: work and personal. You can have shared vaults within your organization or on a project basis.
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