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1{2 "slug": "obsidian",3 "name": "Obsidian",4 "aliases": [5 "Obsidian.md"6 ],7 "vendor": {8 "name": "Dynalist Inc. (Obsidian)",9 "slug": "obsidian",10 "website": "https://obsidian.md"11 },12 "homepage_url": "https://obsidian.md/",13 "docs_url": "https://help.obsidian.md/",14 "pricing_url": "https://obsidian.md/pricing",15 "license_url": "https://obsidian.md/license",16 "privacy_url": "https://obsidian.md/privacy",17 "product_type": "application",18 "product_status": "active",19 "summary": "Local-first Markdown note-taking app with bidirectional links, graph view and a large community plugin ecosystem; optional paid Sync and Publish",20 "description": "Obsidian is a desktop and mobile note-taking application in the personal knowledge-management category, developed by the small team behind Dynalist. Notes are plain Markdown files in a folder on the user's device (a vault), so they remain readable by any editor and under the user's control. On top of the files Obsidian adds wikilinks and backlinks, a graph view of connections, tags and properties (YAML front matter), embedded notes and media, canvas boards, a daily-notes workflow and full-text search.\n\nThe application is proprietary but free for personal and commercial use under its licence, with optional paid add-ons: Obsidian Sync for end-to-end encrypted synchronisation between devices and Obsidian Publish for hosting a vault as a website. Optional Catalyst and Commercial licences support development. The community plugin directory contains thousands of extensions, including Dataview for querying note metadata, Templater, Excalidraw drawings, Zotero citation integration and Git-based backup, and themes and CSS snippets customise the interface.\n\nResearchers and developers use it as a literature notebook, lab journal or project wiki that lives next to code and LaTeX sources in a Git repository; the Markdown files can be processed by Pandoc, Quarto or static-site generators. Limits include the absence of real-time multi-user editing, mobile apps that depend on a sync mechanism, plugin quality and security that vary because plugins run with full access, and a closed codebase, so the openness lies in the file format rather than the application.",21 "capabilities": [22 "Markdown vault stored as local files",23 "Wikilinks, backlinks and graph view",24 "Properties, tags and full-text search",25 "Canvas boards and embedded notes",26 "Community plugins and themes",27 "End-to-end encrypted Sync and web Publish add-ons",28 "Command palette and keyboard-driven navigation"29 ],30 "workflows": [31 "Keep a literature notebook linked to Zotero references",32 "Version a vault with Git alongside a research project",33 "Query note metadata with the Dataview plugin"34 ],35 "advantages": [36 "Plain-text files under user control",37 "Works fully offline",38 "Very large plugin ecosystem",39 "Free for personal and commercial use"40 ],41 "limitations": [42 "No real-time collaborative editing",43 "Closed-source application",44 "Plugins run with full access and vary in quality",45 "Device sync requires Obsidian Sync or a third-party mechanism"46 ],47 "prerequisites": [48 "macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS or Android device"49 ],50 "audiences": [51 "Researchers and students building knowledge bases",52 "Developers keeping Markdown notes with code",53 "Writers organising long projects"54 ],55 "alternatives": [56 "logseq",57 "notion",58 "bear",59 "craft",60 "apple-notes"61 ],62 "comparison_notes": "Logseq is an open-source, outliner-first alternative that also stores Markdown locally. Notion is cloud-hosted with databases and collaboration but no local files. Bear and Craft are polished Apple-centric editors with their own storage; Apple Notes is free and built in but lacks linking depth and plugins.",63 "categories": [64 {65 "slug": "knowledge-management",66 "primary": true67 }68 ],69 "tags": [70 "notes",71 "markdown",72 "local-first",73 "pkm",74 "plugins",75 "macos"76 ],77 "use_cases": [78 "manage-notes",79 "write-papers"80 ],81 "operating_systems": [82 "macos",83 "windows",84 "linux",85 "ios",86 "android"87 ],88 "execution_modes": [89 "local",90 "cloud"91 ],92 "interfaces": [93 "desktop",94 "mobile"95 ],96 "deployment_models": [97 "desktop"98 ],99 "integrations": [100 "Zotero (plugin)",101 "Git (plugin)",102 "Excalidraw (plugin)",103 "Pandoc",104 "Dataview (plugin)"105 ],106 "data_formats": [107 "Markdown",108 "YAML front matter",109 "Canvas JSON",110 "PDF export"111 ],112 "languages": [],113 "source_model": "proprietary",114 "pricing_model": [115 "free",116 "paid"117 ],118 "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",119 "self_hostable": null,120 "sources": [121 {122 "url": "https://obsidian.md/",123 "type": "official_site",124 "supports": [125 "name",126 "summary",127 "operating_systems"128 ],129 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",130 "title": "Obsidian"131 },132 {133 "url": "https://help.obsidian.md/",134 "type": "official_docs",135 "supports": [136 "capabilities",137 "data_formats"138 ],139 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",140 "title": "Obsidian Help"141 },142 {143 "url": "https://obsidian.md/license",144 "type": "license_page",145 "supports": [146 "pricing_model",147 "source_model",148 "advantages"149 ],150 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",151 "title": "Obsidian license overview",152 "note": "Free for personal and commercial use; optional Commercial and Catalyst licences"153 },154 {155 "url": "https://obsidian.md/pricing",156 "type": "pricing_page",157 "supports": [158 "pricing_model"159 ],160 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",161 "title": "Obsidian pricing — Sync and Publish add-ons"162 }163 ],164 "confidence": "high",165 "depth": "deep",166 "featured": false,167 "discovery_method": "editorial-research",168 "editorial_status": "reviewed",169 "visibility": "public",170 "author": "batch-F"171}172