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...

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!

The latest episode of Decoder features a deep dive about Obsidian with @stephango.com and why we're not rushing to add sparkly AI buttons everywhere www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Obsidian 1.9.10 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian Web Clipper 0.11.9 has a new "embedded" mode that opens in the page instead of a popup This means you can use highlighter and interpreter in multiple browser tabs, at the same time

Obsidian 1.9.9 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Mobile release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20... Desktop release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.9.8 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.9.7 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with many bug fixes and improvements for Bases. obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.9.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members with a few bug fixes Desktop release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20... Mobile release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.9.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members - New formula editor for Bases, with autocomplete and syntax highlighting - Bases remember your scroll position when navigating forward and back - New commands: "Add item" and "Add view" for Bases

Obsidian 1.9.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Highlights include: - Cards: new "Card size" slider to view options. - Table: new "Row height" selection to view options. - New image() function for rendering images inline in tables.

Obsidian 1.9.3 (early access) is now available for desktop and mobile, with more improvements to Bases: - New Cards view lets you display files in a grid layout - "New item" button creates a file that matches filters of the current view - Sort menu lets you easily sort items

Obsidian 1.9.2 (early access) is available with improvements for Bases: - Formula syntax is more expressive and powerful. - Added number of results in the current view. - Table cells with long text expand to show the entire content when selected. - Operator dropdown for filters is now searchable.

you can put an @obsidian.md base in a sidebar, and reference the current file

with Obsidian Bases you can create embedded views that reference the current file — for example if I put my "Places" base inside Taipei I get only places I saved in Taipei

Obsidian 1.9.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with many small improvements for Bases obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian Bases + Obsidian Web Clipper is the web archival tool I always wanted replaces my read-it-later app and saves everything to local markdown files

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.

Obsidian 1.8.10 introduces a new vault location option for Android. With the new app storage option, your data is stored in Obsidian’s private app storage. This keeps your data isolated from other apps for added privacy. Learn more: help.obsidian.md/android

Obsidian 1.8.10 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! Mobile release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20... Desktop release notes obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8.10 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Mobile release notes: obsidian.md/changelog/20... Desktop release notes: obsidian.md/changelog/20...

currently @obsidian.md for Android requires full file access permissions because it's necessary for certain third-party sync tools and interoperability — but some users prefer narrower permissions in an upcoming version we're adding this option, do the tradeoffs make sense here?

opening files in Obsidian, not sped up

Obsidian 1.8.9 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8.8 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

Obsidian 1.8.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile — lots of small bug fixes. Mobile changelog obsidian.md/changelog/20... Desktop changelog obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! A few highlights: - Web viewer. New core plugin lets you open external links in Obsidian on desktop for web research. - iCloud sync should load faster on mobile. - New "Download attachments for current file" command.

Obsidian 1.8.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile Release notes: obsidian.md/changelog/20...

Obsidian 1.8.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Contains many small improvements including: – Numbered lists automatically update when modified - Search in file shows the number of results - Added "Insert footnote" command - Added search to the Tags view

2024 Obsidian Gems of the Year results are in! Explore the 33 winning projects across seven categories: – Best new plugins – Best new themes – Best existing plugins – Best tools – Best content – Best templates – Best integrations obsidian.md/blog/2024-go...

Voting has started for the fifth Gems of the Year awards. This year's categories: 1. Best content 2. Best template 3. Best tool 4. Best existing plugin 5. Best LLM integration 6. Best third-party integration 7. Best new theme 8. Best new plugin Join us on the official Obsidian Discord to vote!

Obsidian 1.8.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile! It includes several new commands and improvements for the Web Viewer plugin, along with a brand new onboarding flow for the mobile app.

Gems of the year nominations are open! Share your favorite Obsidian projects of 2024 by January 11th: obsidian.md/blog/2024-go...

Obsidian has completed a second independent audit by the security firm Cure53. The report finds that incremental updates since Obsidian 1.5.3 maintained the highest degree of attention to security, and that no new vulnerabilities were introduced. obsidian.md/blog/cure53-...

Obsidian 1.8.0 lets you open external links in tabs so you can multi-task on research projects, or quickly read an article without losing focus

Obsidian 1.8.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile! - New web viewer plugin - New command to download local images - Improvements for iCloud on mobile Release notes: obsidian.md/changelog/20...

What's one improvement you'd like to see in @obsidian.md in 2025?

The latest version of Obsidian Web Clipper adds Interpreter which lets you extract page content and manipulate it using natural language. This is super useful to create consistent data structures for research within your vault. You can run it locally using Ollama. help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/...

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