Obsidian Reviews

1. MTRG15

   about 3 years ago
   The kind of software that may change your life

   Perhaps you know someone who swears by Obsidian, it may seem like a cult of overly devoted people for how passionate they are, but it's not without reason

   I've been using Obsidian for over 3 years, at a point in my life when I felt I had to handle too much information and I felt like grasping water not being able to remember everything I wanted, language learning, programming, accounting, university, daily tasks. A friend recommended it to me next to Notion (of which he is a passionate cultist priest) and I reluctantly picked it and fell in love almost immediately.

   Obsidian seems very simple, like a notepad with folder interface, similar to Sublime Text, but the ability to link files together in a Wiki style allows you to organize ideas in any way you want, one file may lead to a dozen or more ideas that are related

   If you want to do something specific, Obsidian has a plethora of community created plugins that expand the functionality, in my case, I use obsidian to organize my classes both as a teacher and as a student, using local databases, calendars, dictionaries, slides, vector graphic drawings, excel-like tables, Anki connection, podcasts, and more

   Competitors: Notion, Evernote

   Pros:    Awesome community|Custom plugins|Local hosting|Beautiful themes|Highly customizable|Cloud storage|Becomes more useful over time|Markdown support

   Cons:    Seems complicated/complex at first|Takes time to set up your personal workspace|Overwhelming for first time user
2. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · over 4 years ago
   My personal knowledge-base of choice

   I've been using Obsidian for more than a year. It's been great. I think it offer a great balance of control, flexibility and extensibility. What is more, you own your own data, that's been a must-have feature for me. I just can't imagine putting all my knowledge into something that I don't have control over.

   I think two of the most popular alternatives that people consider are Logseq and Roam Research. Although Logseq is a bit different, it's considered compatible with Obsidian. Supposedly, you can use them with a shared database (files. Both use simple text files for storage). I tried that once, a few months ago. It worked, yet it messed up a bit my Obsidian files ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

   Competitors: Logseq, Roam Research

Linear Reviews

Obsidian mentions (1523)

• Which Markdown editor to choose

  Inline preview, usually called WYSIWYG. Obsidian's Live Preview mode hides the syntax except where the cursor is. Obsidian is a far better personal knowledge base than anything else on this page, with backlinks, a graph and years of plugins, and if that is what you need the question of what its editor is called does not matter much. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• I Built a Self-Evolving Knowledge Base — Here's the Architecture

  The stack is all open source: Obsidian, GBrain, Horizon, PGLite, and a couple of small Python scripts for the state machine and quality gates. None of the interesting parts are proprietary — the interesting part is the discipline. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• A Second Brain Your AI Agent Can Read

  Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores everything as Plain markdown files. It lets you organize and structure your notes in a Flexible way, and because the files are plain text on disk, anything that can Read a directory can read your notes, including an AI agent. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Bringing Notes, WeChat Reading, and Zhihu into Obsidian: My LLM-Wiki Knowledge Hub

  Install Obsidian: Download the client from obsidian.md and create a local Vault — just a local folder. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?

  Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) Honestly its not huge and most are probably obvious, but those are what I immediately install on my machines. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Linear mentions (162)

• The Tradeoff That Slows Production Teams Down: Flexibility vs Actually Shipping

  Speed matters. Not speed in sprint or linear dashboards. Not speed in story points. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Freshworks Just Shipped an MCP Gateway Inside Its ITSM Platform. Here's What That Actually Changes.

  Model Context Protocol, for context, is the emerging standard for letting AI agents pull live data from external systems without custom integration code. Freshworks has implemented it as a native layer in Freddy AI, which means agents can now reach into Notion, ClickUp, Linear, Workday, Rippling, and the rest of the enterprise stack — not through brittle webhooks or bespoke connectors, but through a standardized... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• How to Document and Track Technical Debt

  Issue trackers: GitHub Issues, Linear, or Jira work well because technical debt records live in the same tool as feature work. This makes them easier to pull into sprint planning and keeps the debt backlog visible alongside the feature backlog. The main risk is that debt issues get buried under feature issues without careful labeling and triage discipline. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• How to Write a Technical Debt Remediation Plan for Non-Technical Stakeholders

  Linear and similar tools can track velocity metrics per area of the codebase over time, making the before/after comparison straightforward to document. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Master the in demand of salary negotiation and system design: What Fails

  Most engineers fail salary negotiations because they use vague statements like "I work hard" or "I’m a good teammate" instead of quantified, verifiable impact. After 15 years of negotiating offers, I’ve found that engineers who tie their ask to concrete business outcomes land 30% higher offers than those who don’t. For example, instead of saying "I improved the API", say "I reduced API p99 latency by 400ms, which... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago