Obsidian Note Taking App Thoughts

Ed Nico
6 min readJan 3, 2021

Obsidian is described as “A second brain, for you, forever”. It is a desktop app (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) that acts as a knowledge base working on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

The app is developed by the hugely talented Licat (Shida Li) and Silver (Erika Xu) who also brought us the delightful Dynalist (an outliner note-taking tool similar to Logseq).

The app is offered as a free download, although sponsoring the devs is possible by upgrading your license through a one-time payment (USD 25+). By upgrading the…

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Ed Nico

Posting about personal knowledge management (PKM) and Tools for Thought (TFT) along with some other stuff along the way.