A community dedicated to the Markdown-based personal knowledge base and note-taking software Obsidian.
As an academic I’ve used it for several years to track my classes, lecture ideas, etc., and more recently keeping a record of media consumption, movies, TV series, and novels.
I’d like to get more out of the data in my vaults but I struggle to grasp many of the most interesting community plugins such as Dataview. I really enjoy using Obsidian but suspect it’s challenging if you lack a programming background.
I migrated from Evernote to Joplin because Evernote started charging. I migrated from Joplin because the sync was problematic and wasn't working correctly for me.
My biggest uses are my recipe collection, my bookmarks list, and where I keep notes and roadmaps for my personal hobby projects. I don't use it anywhere even close to its full potential. Links, for example, are nothing that I use and I can't find a compelling reason to do so. I use almost no formatting either. I do use tags, tho. I really don't need something with as much power as this has.
I use it primarily as a recipe book since markdown does that format pretty well.
Using Linux KDE, every file is indexed - including those in my Obsidian notes folder.
Whenever I find a guide, or interesting web page, I use the addon to download it as Markdown - then open Obsidian and edit out any superfluous crud.
So mostly I use it as a repository for things I don't want to search regularly - guides, tutorials etc.
I have my vault on a Fedora laptop and desktop, iPhone, Android and windows desktop. It also is available online hosted in a gitlab instance
I’m an IT professional. I use obsidian for:
I would be completely scuppered without obsidian.
I’ve configured Obsidian Git for sync on all my devices, and only had a couple of merge issues.
I also use it for outstanding tasks, though they tend to get moved in to todoist pretty quickly. I just find it easier to write the tasks mid stream first while I’m thinking them
I use it for work, study and ttrpgs such as dungeons and Dragons. It is great to have a graph view to let the dots connected and a place to keep the text in one place with fast navigation.
I don't really use obsidian as I already have a very capable markdown editor set up in neovim; but it's a nice live-preview editor for my worldbuilding project where I now basically have an internal wiki because it's been 6 years since I started and some things have gotten way out of hand.
it's not that great for the purpose as I've thrown it into an astro project and it doesn't do full HTML rendering; but it's plugins (like dataview) are insanely cool and they will no doubt be indispensible when I manage to make it do calendar conversion math (for which I wrote a quick tool in rust because I was horrendous at doing the math manually)
I use Obsidian for making notes on papers (+some blog posts e.g. the illustrated transformer) for my research for my PhD - It's very useful. For general note taking and stuff and note taking in in meetings, I use Nextcloud Notes + QOwnNotes.
(and ref domain name, I do use Arch-->Artix on my travel laptop :P)
As a student I use Obsidian on my Arch Linux Convertible. It's great for taking general notes during class and I use Excalidraw for doing Chemistry and quick Math notes :). Also good for annotating pdfs. Furthermore I use it for Art ideas, Recipes, Short Notes and all kinds of stuff I want to remember