GoKawiilObsidian is a great note-taking program. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take notes and do other knowledge-work for themselves.
Why Obsidian?
Obsidian allows you to work on local markdown files. This is great for a variety of reasons. Markdown is an open format, you can use it in a variety of other apps. Your Obsidian vault is just a group of notes and folders. And since everything you do is saved locally on your device also, you own your files, you can decide what to do with them. You are protected from enshittification.
Obsidian is powerful. It works great for writing content, for creating content that is interlinked with other things you are working on, e.g. you can create links to notes using [[ ]] .
Obsidian allows you to use it how you want, make it fit into your use-case. You can find or create plugins for features you need. There’s a large community.
The desktop app of Obsidian works great, just like the mobile app, and there’s no limits in its features on either version.
Obsidian’s CEO also wrote about why file over app is great.
I wrote a more detailed comparison of Notion vs Obsidian, it should give you a better idea of what Obsidian is good at compared to other note-taking applications.
Rules to keep in mind
When you look up content about Obsidian, it gets complicated. It’s fine to explore what is possible with such a program, what system and use-cases people have for it, but set a limit. Explore, and then critically think about what you really need. Don’t fall for FOMO marketing or feel anxious.
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