Obsidian - Connected Notes

I’m gonna start by saying that the mobile version doesn’t have me as interested, I usually use the Apple notes app as it’s easy to create and find all of the notes and I can save on my email accounts to prevent loosing data, but I am actually considering a switch, because I can still save it in my iCloud. But the desktop web version of obsidian is so so so good. I use the computer so much and when I found this app I almost cried in happiness…you can customize it however you want with plugins, gives me so much freedom and as someone who always likes to change things up this is perfect. The way it’s organized by tabs it’s my most favorite feature, on google I always have like a thousand tabs open as I can’t deal with loosing where I was last at when working or studying, so I can switch so easy in between things and I love that. One thing that I seriously don’t like is that you have to pay for obsidian sync. I could have all of my computer notes in my phone as well, and if something happens to my computer I can keep my notes on my phone, but this is a feature I have to pay for and I just can’t buy more things at the moment. But I understand that everyone that goes into making an app has to earn money somehow so that’s fine. Overall great app definitely recommend, especially compared to all the other competitive apps out there, this is by far the best and good job to all its developers!!!

I have used, researched, and thought about more productivity apps than your average nerd… this is simply the best, in all cases. The development is done by a very small, very talented team. The updates, bug fixes, and announcements are lightning fast. They listen to the community but do not let it steer them in the wrong direction. They give you a million outs to not pay them a DIME. I have paid everything I can at the highest tier because this is my most used tool - but I didn’t really have to pay anything at all. I enjoy the desktop version more than the mobile version, but based on the insane features they just dropped on the desktop version (0.16) - I know the mobile version will be perfect at some point. The app itself - amazing note taking app right out of the box that does not gate your data - take it and leave whenever you want. But, the reason I feel so strongly about it, there is an UNENDING level of customizability that comes from the deeply dedicated community and their custom plugins and themes - which the developer personally reviews and approves. I could wax poetic forever. If you need more than basic note tools will give you then this is it. Forget Roam, Logseq, any of the other imitators - Obsidian is your answer.

Have been using Obisidan in beta for the past year and in the mobile beta since its inception. The combination is incredible and the Obsidian developers provide huge value for free across multiple platforms. Free full functionality in a data format that guarantees you can never lose access to your work. Support for the developers is only through their publish and sync services, neither is required to use all the functions of the product. It has spoiled me for any other note app. Best functionality is for knowledge management and longer form writing, for both of those it is a distinct pleasure to use. Lot’s of available community add-ons provide a wide variety of options for task management, calendar integration, kanban, data analysis and much more. In my opinion those are higher friction and I’d prefer other tools but if you are a bit technical and like tweaking on your own you will find those useful as well - beware that community plugins can be more hit or miss in the mobile version. With all that - this is THE most valuable tool in the entire Apple ecosystem for my day-to-day work.

Obsidian is simply put: sublime. Closest to the perfect note taking and writing software. The fact that this software is both iOS, MacOS, and Windows compatible is nothing short of a miracle, considering the huge amount of technical bells and whistles that this software comes with. For simple note taking, you just pop open the app and take notes. If you enjoy writing, you can write hundreds of thousands of words, and it’ll never slow down. And the desktop version allows you to do so much idea mapping, hotlinking between notes, and so much more. Admittedly, the learning curve for Obsidian is a bit steep. While the tutorial does exist, it is a little…hard to read. I haven’t personally gotten around to using most of the software functions. But the sheer accessibility and simplicity of it, in its basic usage, is truly remarkable. Best of all, all of this is free. I have no idea how this software is free, but it is truly a marvel among free softwares, with no ads or anything else.

I'm building a personal knowledgebase in the app and I love it. It is not user friendly per se like notion but it is much more flexible and once you get the hang of using markdown I think it's much faster. I love how the software just gets out of the way and supports me without making me have to change my process to adapt to the tool, I can just iterate on my thoughts, link notes, and organize information naturally without thinking about how I want to use information later. For example in notion, you can't build a database from your notes easily or use that information elsewhere outside of it's database quickly but with dataview (community plugin) it's pretty flexible and information that becomes useful later is easier to locate. The new UI overhaul threw me for a loop and I had just gotten pretty fast at the old way and now I have to re-train my thumbs but it does look a little cleaner and more modern now. I wish there would have been a headsup and option to revert back. I mean this is my second brain and now it looks different. It's kind of a shock.

Obsidian is well and truly a game changer. Ever since I downloaded it, I've been putting all my knowledge in here, step by step, linking it together, and creating a second brain. Plugins like Memos let you write down quick notes, Crossbow lets you automatically find tags, and many more. Themes like Anuppuccin let you customize Obsidian to be exactly the way you would like it to be. You can put in images, audio, files, anything, you can style every note to be exactly how you would imagine it, you can view a graph of all the links between your notes, you can create your own encyclopedia, your own personal knowledge base, your own second brain. Obsidian is also a very stable app in my experience, I've only ever had it crash a few times, and it was usually the cause of plugins, which even don't crash that much either. Overall, incredible app, and while it may take a little while to learn how to use for some people, it's not too hard to get the hang of. - PF

I’ve used Obsidian desktop since December and the mobile app for a couple of months. The longer I use it, the less and less I open other apps. Creating a new note is fast and editing your standard Markdown is fast and easy, enough that I never use the Markdown shortcuts bar. I use Obsidian for three types of notes. First, I use it for daily notes, much like a digital bullet journal. Second, for project notes and references, and finally for my personal second brain/zettelkasten, and I work on all three types of notes in the same vault without any confusion. Couple of caveats: 1. WYSIWYG not available yet, so you write in Markdown. You can flip from edit to preview mode to see “pretty” text, but I just look at Markdown all day. I’m ok with that, but it might drive you nuts. 2. App and desktop/mobile synch are free, but I pay a monthly fee for Obsidian’s synch rather than muss about with settings to manage synch myself. Plus it’s encrypted end-to-end. 3. Finally, I think it would be easier if you *started* on desktop and then *also* worked on your phone. I think desktop makes it easier to really get into and figure out the workflow and organization system that works for you. Whatever you choose, I definitely recommend you commit and use Obsidian for a couple of weeks to really try it out. It’s so flexible, you need some time kick all the tires and see which ones you like.

All I want is a text-only note-taking app that is entirely offline, no tracking, quick to open, and the text or markdown files (if be happy with text) can be easily exported in one go (perhaps zipped, if there are multiple files) to my Linux OS via KDE Connect or a cable. What I like about Obsidian is the exportability, how easy it is to make and title a new file, and that no data is claimed to be collected. What I really don't like is waiting seconds (seconds! How spoiled I am :) for the app to open, and that the full-text search option is buried. I don't use any other features except for a mutual link between my tbr library list and my already-borrowed list, to move entries from the former to the latter, and I can live without that. I appreciate that you made and shared this work, hence the three stars, but it falls short of the truly performant and simple app I'm looking for, so now I'm questioning my rating at all- what use is it if I want something different but for users who want exactly what Obsidian is it's perfect? Revised to four stars, for grade-inflation.

This app has all the functionality you really need from the desktop version. Writing notes, navigating notes, linking notes are all straightforward and convenient enough to do. Plugins also work great - although I only have 3 community plugins + the built in ones of them so YMMV. I really like how all the menu buttons are set up. It’s really easy to close files, open new ones, switch between tabs, etc. One thing I’ll mention is that it took me a while to find the search functionality - you have to open the left sidebar and press the swap icon next to files - a little hard to find imo. Honestly, the app may take a little getting used to before you can do all the stuff you can do on desktop. After a few days you’ll be just fine. The iCloud sync is little buggy sometimes - it’s also pretty slow once you have a lot of files. My recommendation is to back up your files with git and if the iCloud Sync speed or bugginess bothers you enough, get Obsidian Sync. When you open the app, once you’re sync is done, everything within the app is just as snappy and smooth as it is on desktop (ie. opening panes, opening and closing menu bars, switching tabs, etc.) Overall, the app works surprisingly well for all the features that Obsidian has. I would look past the negative reviews and see for yourself if the mobile version works for you.

The reason I'm writing this is because the obsidian mobile app has finally been released, much to my glee. 'Glee', that's a word that I hate to describe myself with because it has an almost humiliatingly over-emotional charge to it, but it's fitting enough in this case. The app is excellent. It's excellent for many reasons that set it apart from any other note taking app: - Hyper-customizable shortcuts to do almost anything you could want to do in the app as quickly as possible. With keyboard support. - The same, wonderful network visualization of your entire notebook, complete with tweakable physics. - Custom styles that can be written in pure CSS or selected from the set of community themes - Notes are saved to your phone's files as raw .markdown files which you can do anything you want with later. - You can sync your notes with Obsidian's own "Sync" service, or you can even use Git. iCloud is also an option. - Third party plugins (you can even write your own!) which allow complete changes to app functionality. These features combined are, to me, absolutely staggering to see in an iPhone app. The developers of Obsidian, in porting their desktop application to mobile, have simultaneously created what I think is one of the most powerful tools I've ever had on my phone.

Remember the days… like 30 years ago… when you discovered a new app … like a spreadsheet or a word processor … and you realized pretty quickly that you'd never go back? Well, Obsidian is that level of a game changer. Having a Second Brain is the Killer App of the next decade, and obsidian is by far the best attempt at it. Sure, Markdown is a bit annoying but all of the other features far overwhelm. And the data is open and future proof. And having a "what you see is what you get" feature is on the developers roadmap, so that complaint will soon be allayed. Truly, take the jump - if you embrace it, you'll never want to leave. And your phone will be an Obsidian phone, on which you occasionally perform other "less useful" apps… - Z2K

And it’s working alright but sometimes the editing of a previous paragraph lets me type but it never overrides the sentence. It’s a weird and annoying bug. Fortunately, I can just leave the vault and come back in. Other than that, I love the cloud syncing and how minimal it all is. Everyone talks about plug-ins and themes, I stay away from all that. I need a decent editor to keep me from becoming distracted and at the base install Obsidian does that. I would probably still use Notion instead but at last, only Obsidian has offline mode. So you win. Edit: So I’ve been using Obsidian for 3 months straight full time and I’m sick of the editing bug. If I type for a good 15-30 minutes and edit any paragraph above, it breaks the editor. I’m now at the point that I’m about to move my project to another application. This was a 4 star app but it’s crazy that in this time the bug hasn’t been fixed.

I’ve been a solid user of Obsidian for a few months, starting with organizing my research for animation. I’m so pleased with how it held all my work for free, with such flexibility, that when they announced it would be a mobile app as well, I was ecstatic! There’s very few places in which the mobile app can’t keep up with the desktop version, and frankly it’s all in the community plugins. The core app without anything additional functions flawlessly, and I’m in love with it. I’m looking forward to more support for community additions in the future. For right now, it’s fantastic just to use sync and keep my information close at hand.

It seems absolutely great EXCEPT… I downloaded this app to keep my notes on. I actually transferred all my notes, one by one(YES I KNOW THERE’S AN IMPORT PLUGIN. it doesn’t work for my iPad.) into this app hoping I could access them anywhere with the sync feature. Which I then realized was behind a paywall. Only after I added all my notes, and THEN moved them from an iCloud vault into a normal vault one by one AGAIN. Sorry y’all, I’d be more willing to pay if I had known beforehand. Now I just don’t have the patience to put money into this. Is it worth it? Probably. But I have had enough. TLDR: please let people know that that feature is paywalled more often! I wouldn’t be as frustrated if I had known, especially since so much of the marketing hinges on that specific feature… “on the go”?

Syncing from Mac to iPhone takes forever. My edit on my Mac don’t show up after even 40 minutes and the iCloud image on my Mac just keep syncing saying it’s 93/94kb something like that. Then I just restart my Mac and the sync then went fine. When it happened the second time I also do a restart and then the sync went through. I really like the desktop app but Obsidian’s iCloud sync implementation is not working for me. I don’t know if this is a strategy to push customers to buy their own survice. Honestly I will be willing to pay similar price for Obsidian compared with Bear app. When exporting markdown out of Bear a lot of image links breaks down. Plus I really enjoy the desktop app (except for the fact that wiki link and standard markdown image link can’t be customized separately). But this iCloud sync to iOS is not ready.

This is one of the best note Ive used. Very reliable and fast-reacting. In this way, it beats Notion and Xmind. I love it’s graph function very much! Yet there is of course more to add to make it better. 1. Add a google drive upload button so that we can fast upload and sync files everytime. 2. Self editing appearances. I know we have many themes yet there are always somethings we don’t like (font or color or size or positions or pic size) in them. Can we edit these after choosing a theme? 3. Better management of files and pics. Everytime when I add a screenshot or file to my work, it appears on the left side bar parallel to main works. I have to build a file case to drag them in and separate them from main works manually. Please give these chips a place to stay. 4. More specific functions. This direction will help Obsidian beat Notion totally. Notion as many templates. If we have this option, we can make it a Tally Book, a Reading Extract, a lab log etc. for now, it’s not module-ish enough for a quick stitch for different daily usage. Best wishes to the wonderful team!

An incredibly useful app for managing all kinds of information in ways I had previously not considered or imagined possible. Update: With continued use, it only becomes more valuable as I discover new ways of using it. I also signed up for Obsidian Sync that works flawlessly after some cloud-related sync issues that were not Obsidian’s fault. I can definitely recommend their Sync service if you need to use up to 5 vaults on multiple devices. The amount of time I save and gain (easily review and study notes on my phone when I have a couple of downtime minutes, sipping a cup of coffee, …) is cumulatively significant.

I’ve used the Obsidian desktop application for the past several months and have seen improvements in my creativity, writing, and memory. I’m excited to use the new app to boost my idea capturing process. I use the mobile app to capture my thoughts and new information in a daily note and and integrate them later into my Personal Knowledge Management framework. It has all the goodies found in the desktop version and works great on iPad if I want to work from iOS. Overall, I find it liberating that I can now carry my entire second brain in my pocket and reference it or modify it whenever I need!

I think with most iOS/iPad OS apps, developers look to do the bare minimum. The Obsidian team did much more than that. I exclusively use an iPad and an iPhone for all of my work. The iPad OS has a long way to go, but this app takes good advantage of what is available. As of September 10th, 2023, there is one massive bug with this app and it is the app scrolling. With a mouse, it is a 50/50 chance it will work at all. When it does, it almost always doesn’t work as intended. When I scroll down, the page will jump back to the top of the screen. Very rarely can I scroll normally. Just for clarification, this is not a product of my mouse, as I have no issues with other apps. Please fix!

I switched to Obsidian from Evernote because the latter isn’t very secure and I was growing concerned about continuing to use it. Also, Evernote drains my battery like crazy and makes my phone run super hot. I love Obsidian so far and will be recommending it to friends and family. The only thing that would make this mobile app even better would be if we could set a simple numerical passcode to open the app. Evernote has it included in their free version and having it for my Obsidian app would give me a little extra peace of mind, especially when my kids are using my phone.

Obsidian is incredible. 10/10 recommended. Whomever chose to have such a weird sync across devices in this, the year of 2024, is WILD to me. You can’t just log in and expect to see your workspace, you have to go through what feels like outdated design logic to create a remote vault and connect to it. Why are we reinventing the wheel? For $10 a month or $100 annually, which puts it around the same cost as its competitors that just… works based on their login (as far as syncing across devices goes) it feels dumb to me. Hire someone who knows how to make it work better, Yeesh. Its great to use but I would avoid the sync feature until they work on it more.

I absolutely LOVE this app!! For a long time, I have wanted an “everything app” for all things productivity. Then a few weeks ago, I finally found it! I have only been using for a few weeks now, but it has already replaced several apps for me. With the vast number of plugins, I am able to use Obsidian for note taking, habit tracking, journaling, task management, a Kanban board, and I am sure more use cases will follow. EXTREMELY customizable. Anyone looking to jump on the “second brain” bandwagon should definitely take a look at Obsidian. It may be just what you are looking for!

This is a quirky app filled with little annoying things. Like why is there always a “new tab” open in the background and when I open a new doc it still keeps the new tab and opens the doc in a different tab? This means there is always an extra tab open no matter what I do. It’s annoying. Can’t find any way to change this in the settings. Also, why can’t the notes be sorted in a way other than alphabetical or date? No idea. Just annoying. Can’t sort notes my own way. The app also bugs out if a doc’s word count gets around 2,000+ words. Lastly, why pay $8 for synch? Nah, this app isn’t that good. Instead just use Dropbox to move files around.

I’ve tried basically every enhanced notes apps under the sun and Obsidian sets a new standard. Prioritizing plain text, local files and fostering community support is just an excellent combination. I don’t have to worry about not having my notes without internet. I don’t have to read privacy policies to figure out if a service can read my stuff. I just write and feel comfortable knowing that even if Obsidian goes away some day, I’ll always have my writing. That’s not even touching on the stellar feature set and excellent community plugins. Obsidian is great!

Obsidian, along with the Minimal theme and Kanban plugins, have changed my life for the better. The syncing via iCloud is flawless, and I regularly use it across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It’s truly become my second brain, and the fact that all of my content is stored in plaintext files in a normal directory structure makes it easy to back up and easy to trust - I’ll be able to still retain and use my data if I ever have to leave Obsidian for some reason. Of course, I hope that will not happen! Thanks to the devs for a great product.

I’ve never submitted an app review before but this product changed that. Note: I have NOT used the mobile app much. This review relates to the desktop version. In short, writing is now a joy again, but more importantly this is the perfect solution for a “second brain” in the spirit of Zettlekasten and note taking. The app is very well designed and switching back and forth between documents is a breeze. I’ve tried lots of product to fill the need of “knowledge curation” and this fits the bill perfectly. I first learned of “markdown language” when I installed the app. And I’m so glad I did. It’s now the only way I’ll write and the only format I want to save text files in. I’ve already saved hours of time I used to waste monkeying with Word. Now I’m done with word. If I need to do a mail merge or complex formatting etc… I’ll write in Obsidian first and cut n paste into Word if I need to. Get it, learn it, use it. You’re welcome.

I’ve looked all over for a better note-taking / mind-mapping app. This is IT. Congratulations, you are now part of the group of elites who use this. There are two types of people in this world: those who use obsidian, and those who don’t. Welcome to the cult. But seriously this is amazing. It will absolutely accelerate your productivity in regards to note-taking. I can see this having some interesting applications in a lot of different areas: mental health journaling, just daily journaling in general, planning social media strategies, and the list goes on. Endless possibilities really. Admittedly there is a steep learning curve, but once you get going, it all makes so much sense. It has every feature I could want in a notes and mind mapping app. I’ll be using it for everything now. Best advice starting out is don’t be intimidated by it. Start small and treat it like a normal notes app and learn the features as you go.

I love the app—great editor, organization, features, and extensions. The app is well-made, and the PC versions are just as great. However, I have one piece of feedback: it needs support for more cloud drive services. iCloud Drive is great for all-Apple workflows, but iCloud is next to useless on Windows and incompatible with Linux. I was hoping I could use Google Drive to save my notes and access/edit them on the go with the app, but since I use an iPhone and Linux/Windows PCs, the iPhone app itself is rather useless for me. Please consider adding further support for other cloud drive services.

There are many great notes applications out there, but Obsidian is special. I’ve been using it for a while now on my Mac and iOS (beta) and I can honestly say this app is one of a kind. If you are interested in writing notes in Markdown, saving and managing your data as plain text files and are curious about a vibrant plugin community - you need to give Obsidian a try. They offer a dedicated sync service if you want but I just use iCloud - your mileage may vary. I hope you give Obsidian a chance - you may really like it like I do.

Considering how rabid the fan base is, I am shocked there aren’t more reviews for the mobile version. I use Obsidian across multiple platforms and I pay for sync. It has truly become my external brain. I use it for everything. If you are looking for a comprehensive personal knowledge management solution that will stand the test of time, you found it. There is no better combination of future proofing (Markdown) and modern features (Sync, tons of community plugins, a huge GitHub community building even more).

Love the interface of this app and how it’s style meshes with the way the human mind naturally connects new topics and content that it learns. I think this app is so fantastic that users should be able to use their accounts through iCloud, Google, etc. on any device they have. I tried to find this on my Mac, but was disappointed to find that it only is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices. Hope this changes soon, but keep up the great work with this style of note-taking software!

I don’t usually leave reviews, but just starting to use this, it blew me away. All the features it has for a free app is insane. Even if this app is like apple notes, I find it way better with organization. I’m very new to DND, and as my first time playing, I’m going to be a DM. I find it super hard to keep track of everything on other apps and on paper (though i do like the aesthetic of writing stuff on paper) but this app definitely helps!! I can’t believe this is free- 10/10 recommend!

The UI needs to be adapted way more to mobile devices. The UI just locked itself into delete mode and autonomously deleted half of my file. Was not able to recover the deleted data. Apart from this blooper, a bunch of stuff isn’t running smoothly or being synced correctly between devices. I’m paying for the sync service, but I’d hoped that you guys would also be working on improving the product. I’m looking forward to strong improvements for the mobile version of the app + a stand alone app for the iPad. The iPad app should work mostly like the laptop app. Right now it’s just a the regular phone app on a bigger screen. And currently I cannot even use it. It just freezes

Update Sept 24 The crashing problem continues to happen when I edit the note title or add tags, please advise!! 5 stars other than the crashing issue Update aug 24 Noticed lots of improvement thanks!! My app seems to crash a lot especially when editing the doc title, any suggestions on how to avoid? —- Granted Im running this on an iPhone 8 plus so maybe that’s part of the problem but whenever I try to pick a color it’s really glitchy and as soon as I touch any of the bar is it exes out of the color picker window. What I would love is to be able to have multiple color pallets available that I can save and name and organize so that I have each of the color pallets I need for each of the projects I need. And maybe just maybe a pick from image eyedropper? That would be amazing ALSO Is it possible to embed videos in the app or even have them linked from an iCloud or Google Drive to the document? I have a lot of reference videos that I want to be able to archive and notate what I need from them and tag them etc

I love love love using Obsidian, it’s my favorite note taking app by far. I have one small suggestion for the app though, and please let me know if this can already be changed in the settings somewhere, I just couldn’t find it. Please please please add a setting for the editor so that the command palette doesn’t open when you drag the note down. The drag threshold is so low I open it by mistake constantly and it gets intensely obnoxious very quickly. Other than that, I love this app and think the developers do a terrific job!

I desperately wish I could make this my main note taking app, but there doesn’t seem to be any real way to organize notes. The only options are to sort alphabetically or by creation/modified date. Maybe that works for some people, but if you’re trying to take study notes for example and you want to organize them in very specific topic order for how the material is laid out, your only option is to do something like starting every note title with 01, 02, 03, 04, etc. so they stay in the order you want. The moment a true manual sorting mode is included, Obsidian will have pretty much everything I need to leave OneNote forever.

There is so much to this app. Plug-ins, community themes, different ways of managing and organizing. It can be overwhelming, especially when you see the insane lengths that people have taken the app to. But…it’s also really good. Once you start vibing with the interface there is a stunning amount of depth and usability. The fact everything is just markdown files also opens up a ton of automation possibility. The team and the community are also incredibly responsive and helpful. An excellent transition to iOS.

I’d like to start by saying that I think Obsidian is great. I love owning my own files (as opposed to using something like Notion) and the simplicity of markdown. It’s also great as a standalone desktop app. But syncing between devices is one of the most important features for me and it just doesn’t work well if you’re using iCloud to sync between devices. It can take multiple minutes to load vaults (and can heat up your device quite a bit while doing so) and doesn’t support basic hierarchical organization of vaults. I’d filed a feature request a couple months ago and apparently Obsidian’s paid proprietary syncing service *does* support this, but they don’t support it for iCloud. If you just need a markdown editor with a few extra bells and whistles, Obsidian is fine. If you need anything more complex like syncing between devices and organizing a project, you’re better off using Notion or even a text editor like Runestone.

The application quality is high, it’s fast and has almost no bugs. I like that it can be customized with plugins and have any synchronization method I want. The app doesn’t ask for your money unless you want to use Obsidian’s cloud storage, which is not necessary for synchronization. But the app is made primarily for geeks, because it operates folders and files, uses markdown for note editing, and implies computer wizardry when installing/customizing plugins, especially custom synchronization.

Not able to choose local folders or any other iCloud folders as root for vaults, makes Obsidian useless for me. In the Mac version this is possible, but not on iPadOS/iOS. It would be great to be able to more freely chose any local and any iCloud folders as source for Vaults, so that you coud have: 1. private vaults that are not synced at all, 2. Use Obsidian on folders with exsisting markdown files from other apps. 3. In Ulysses, Textastic, iAWriter you can freely attach external forlders, both from local and iCloud folders. Otherwise a 4 star app, but Word, PDF export and print is also missing.

I’ve been using Obisidian for a while, and it is a great app. I do have a couple complaints though, mainly with the graph system. 1. Nodes will freeze up on me, so my graphs will look like one half-jumbled mess that looks like they beat Jesus with that. It refuses to let me move nodes until I open a new graph, essentially ruining my arrangement 2. No way to save node placement (that I have found) 3. No custom way to sort files, so either I’m stuck with everything a-z out of order, or pain-stakingly recreating every file in the right order once I’ve finished 4. I do wish there were custom node connectors (the lines between nodes), weather that be color-coding or different types of lines 5. No way to hide certain sets of nodes (that I have found) 6. No way to reference other files without linking them in the graph (that, once again, I have found)

I have been using obsidian for years now and I have to say that the team who makes this app are triply incredible and deserve all of the love, they work hard to make this tool even more useful and easy to use say by day. This is my first time writing a review after using a cell phone for most of my life, and I have to say that this app is definitely worth your time. I have written pages upon pages of lord and notes for my world.

This is the one to get. It works out of the box, if you just want to take notes, you can do that. But the real magic is in the customization. It doesn’t matter what you need your notes for, you can change the workflow to be streamlined for any system. The real power is how this helps you keep your ideas connected. You don’t have to write a note and try to remember what you called it or what tag you put on it. You’re able to link directly to/from any note in your collection. Get the app. Take 2 hours to watch some videos and read some documentation. It’s worth it. P. S. For all the Things 3 users out there - there are plugins to sync your logbook from things into your Daily Notes automatically. HUGE help for tracking things down and connecting ideas.

I recently tested out obsidian on my iPad. I was able to create a vault without an issue on iCloud. The app froze every time I tried to open the vault on my Mac. Then when i tried to delete the vault directly from iCloud, it completely broke. If I open the iPhone or iPad app, it is just frozen and doesn’t give me an option to create a vault again. The Mac app seems cool, but I have tried all the suggestions online and unfortunately it’s not worth it to use an app if I have to spend a lot of time working with developers to fix it. I see many similar issues on the forums and in app reviews.

This tool can help you be a better human. Their paid sync option is supposedly decent but I use iCloud to sync as I want my notes to be more fully in my control and encrypted. iCloud sync shows a little message every time the app opens incorrectly stating that iCloud automatically deletes files and no way to prevent waiting to re-download. I know this is a lie because I've already force-sync that folder, it's not being deleted. Please fix this, I'd happily pay for your app another way if I had to, but I will not use your sync service.

This is a wonder app and I’ve been using it for syncing markdown notes for years across all devises. However, recently the sync stopped working when in lockdown mode. The developer’s response in the forum is that there is nothing they can do. In addition, the actions suggested by the developer (uninstalling and reinstalling) caused me to lose some notes that had not been synced. At this time it is not possible to sync notes to or from an iPhone when the phone is in lockdown mode and the suggested remedy is to reach out to Apple to fix.

Obsidian is an awesome note taking and second brain app for desktop. It has excellent cross device sync and a wealth of plugins. The downside is the mobile app is not integrated into mobile os. The ux is clunky html and there are close to zero integrations with native features like multiwindowing, no shortcuts integration and poor default in app navigation ux. The Craft app blows the UX away and then some. For device based scenarios I’ve repeatedly tried obsidian mobile and end up using craft and later copying and pasting content. I wish obsidian would take Mobile seriously.

I don't usually write reviews but I had to write one for this. This is an amazing app! As a software engineer you get to use a ton of note apps, and they all have something that is annoying. But Obsidian was amazing for me. Things I look for: - Simplicity (this is so easily to use) - Versatile (uses Markdown format which is universal already and is quite simple) - Syncs across devices (syncs on my mac and iPhone, which is the perfect use) - Beautiful UI - Ideally, not crazy expensive Those are the things i looked for, and I found them all in Obsidian. And i got all those things for free! I'm actually planning to pay the developers out of my own will because they really delivered. The app is everything you look for in a simple note taking app and more.

Fantastic companion app to the desktop version with one incredibly annoying caveat. Switching back and forth is slow and the app redownloads configuration **every single time** even if you were just in the app. Surely it is possible to cache this in local on-device storage along with the last file that was open? Quick access should be at a premium in a notes app and anything that can be lazy loaded should be with extreme prejudice.

It doesn’t let you use things as local files and then expects you to only use their sync service, this is worthless on iPhone if you store your vault in Dropbox as its not even accessible, they are evil and only give you the option of paying them or using iCloud, so you cant even access your data. I’ve been struggling with this for an hour, and it just doesn’t work. It doesn’t let me open a local file for my vault and it actually refuses to let me continue or do use the app in any way, unless I’m willing to tell it to sync everything to iCloud or I want to start an entirely new vault that won’t have any of my data..