I can't go back to the regular YouTube UI after this 😅 Obsidian Reader now makes the transcript interactive so you can scrub, highlight, auto-scroll. It feels so nice.

The Obsidian team is growing from three engineers to four engineers. Competitive SF salary. Fully remote, live anywhere. Apply below.

New in Obsidian Reader: - Themes and typography settings - Highlighting - Save options Also added a beautiful new reading experience for deeply nested comments on Reddit and Hacker News. Available with Obsidian Web Clipper 1.3 on all browsers.

Obsidian 1.12.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile. We made Obsidian CLI even faster. Requires updating to the latest installer.

I have been working on Obsidian Reader for over a year. I didn't want to share it until I felt it was good enough. It's finally there. Consistent formatting for any article. Outline, syntax highlighting, nice footnotes, adjustable typography. Runs locally. Just rules, no AI.

Obsidian 1.12.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. It's a small update with a few bug fixes.

Defuddle now returns Youtube transcripts! Paste a YouTube link into defuddle·md to get a markdown transcript with timestamps, chapters, and pretty good diarization ...or if you just want to read it, try the new Reader mode in @obsidian.md Web Clipper powered by Defuddle

Obsidian 1.12.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with a few fixes for Obsidian CLI and copy/pasting across apps.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app. Try the open beta:

Obsidian 1.12 is now available to everyone! - Obsidian CLI - Bases search - Image resizing - Automatically clean up unused images - Better copy/paste into rich text apps like Google Docs - Native iOS share sheet

Obsidian 1.12.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.12.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with lots of improvements to CLI and a new share sheet on iOS!

Obsidian Web Clipper 1.0 is now available, and adds logic to templates! This gives you powerful new tools to convert web pages to Markdown. - if/else - fallback values for variables - for loops Also adds a context menu to copy Markdown to clipboard, and automatic syntax validation for templates.

Obsidian 1.12.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. - Obsidian CLI - Bases search - Images can now be resized in Live Preview - When deleting a file, linked images can now be automatically deleted with it

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

Obsidian 1.11.7 is now available to everyone for desktop and mobile. This update introduces three new options to customize mobile interface. Find them in Settings → Appearance on mobile.

Obsidian 1.11.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. This update introduces three new options to customize mobile interface in Settings → Appearance. The new settings let you toggle automatic full screen mode, floating navigation, and sliding sidebars.

Obsidian 1.11.5 is now available to all for desktop and mobile. This update fixes a few bugs including issues with daily notes and the tab switcher. More improvements will come in the next update to let you customize the new mobile app.

Obsidian 1.11.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

In Obsidian 1.11 you can switch sidebar views in one gesture if you continue to hold down, then let go on the view you want to switch to.

Obsidian 1.11 is now available for desktop and mobile! The new mobile design gives more space to your notes, and helps you quickly navigate your vault. You can now instantly access Obsidian from your lock screen, home screen, control center, Shortcuts, and Siri.

Obsidian 1.11.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Performance is design, and every millisecond counts. Every update in 2025 trimmed Obsidian's load speed. This is quite complex given the number of different configurations and operating systems Obsidian supports.

Obsidian 1.11.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.11.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.11.0 (early access) introduces widgets and a new mobile design. You can now instantly access Obsidian from your lock screen, home screen, control center, Shortcuts, and Siri. The new design gives more space to your notes, and helps you quickly navigate your vault.

If you've been waiting to buy Obsidian merch, now's the time. Our friends at Cotton Bureau have a sale from today until December 1. Free shipping in the US, or 50% off international shipping using the code THANKYOU25. obsidian.md/softwear

Obsidian 1.10.6 is now available to all for desktop and mobile with lots of small bug fixes.

You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files. Your data, offline, forever, for free.

Obsidian 1.10.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. obsidian.md/changelog/20...

$ softwear reboot --obsidian > compiling new hoodies, tees, and stickers… > bases: covered > status: live → obsidian.md/softwear

Obsidian 1.10.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Fixes the YouTube embed error and a few other bugs.

Obsidian Importer now lets you generate Markdown files from a CSV. It converts thousands records in seconds and automatically generates a Base that you can use to explore and edit the data.

Obsidian 1.10 is now available! The mobile app now launches A LOT faster. We've also made many improvements to Bases with new list views, map views, groups, summaries, and APIs to create your own views.

Obsidian 1.10.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile New APIs for Bases views: - Display the "new note" menu for the current view - View options can now use formula input, file picker, and folder picker - Conditionally hide view options

Obsidian 1.10.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. The mobile app now launches significantly faster. You can now edit the last opened file while the rest of the app loads in the background.

Just updated my vault template to show how I use the new Maps feature for Obsidian Bases. Super useful for travel planning.

Obsidian October is back! Once again we're hosting office hours on Discord to help you polish and launch your plugins, themes, vaults, videos, and other projects. Plus you can now explore the Bases API to create your own custom views like the new Map view.

Obsidian 1.10.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members with tons of improvements for Bases! - New List view - New Map view an official open source plugin - Bases API for views - Group results by property Many new table view features: keyboard nav, copy/paste, summarize, undo

Obsidian 1.9.14 is now available to all for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.9.14 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.9.13 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with bug fixes and performance improvements.

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks obsidian.md/blog/less-is...

A new bounty is open for Importer: $2,000 to convert Notion Databases to Obsidian Bases and plain text files

One of my favorite use cases for Obsidian Bases is custom sidebar views. Here's one I made for "Related notes". It finds notes that have overlapping links and tags with the active note. The notes are sorted by a count of overlaps.

The sample Obsidian plugin template now has an AGENTS.md file. Hopefully this means coding tools better follow Obsidian guidelines, and create plugins that can more quickly pass review. github.com/obsidianmd/o...

My top ten tips for Obsidian Bases

Obsidian 1.9.12 is now available to all for desktop and mobile. - Search is now lightning fast - New migration assistant for Sync, and minor security upgrade - Disabled old versions of Commander and Image Toolkit that were causing issues in 1.9

Obsidian 1.9.12 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Search is now lightning fast.

Obsidian 1.9.12 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. This update drastically improves the performance of the Search view. obsidian.md/changelog/20...