Obsidian

Obsidian stores notes privately on your device and offers tools for journaling, knowledge bases, and project management.

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Obsidian interface in dark theme showing a trip planning checklist on a phone and a note editor with tab bar on a tablet.

What is Obsidian?

Obsidian is a note-taking app for personal notes, journaling, knowledge bases, and project management. It stores notes privately on your device and lets you access them offline, without giving Obsidian access to their contents. Thousands of plugins and themes let you customize the app to fit your way of thinking. It uses open file formats so you retain ownership of your data over the long term. Its tools help you organize ideas across personal writing, knowledge collections, and projects.

Key features

  • Obsidian allows users to create connections and links between different notes.

  • Obsidian provides an interactive graph view to visualize relationships and patterns between notes.

  • Obsidian includes an infinite canvas space for researching, brainstorming, and diagramming ideas.

  • Obsidian supports accessing and synchronizing notes across devices with end-to-end encryption.

  • Obsidian enables users to publish notes online as a web wiki, knowledge base, or documentation.

  • Turn individual built-in features on or off.

  • Customize interface colors with community themes.

  • Apply small interface changes using CSS snippets.

  • Highlight web pages and save their content through a browser extension.

  • Control Obsidian from a terminal through its command line interface.

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