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1. the dynalist years · era · 2015–2019 (approximate)

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     "range": "2015–2019",
     "summary": "shida li and erica xu meet at waterloo, build the outliner dynalist as students, and learn exactly what a notes product costs — before obsidian exists.",
     "title": "the dynalist years"
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2. the beta · era · early–mid 2020 (approximate)

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     "summary": "a quarantine project becomes a private discord alpha, then a public beta — local files, backlinks, a graph view, and the plugin registry repo created before launch.",
     "title": "the beta"
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3. building in public · era · late 2020–2021 (approximate)

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     "id": "building",
     "range": "late 2020–2021",
     "summary": "publish before sync, catalyst before launch, mobile within fourteen months — the no-vc business model assembles itself in public while the plugin economy takes off.",
     "title": "building in public"
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4. the kepano era · era · 2022–2023 (approximate)

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     "range": "2022–2023",
     "summary": "1.0, canvas, and the author of the most-installed theme becomes ceo — 'file over app' turns the architecture into a public philosophy.",
     "title": "the kepano era"
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5. recent history · era · 2024– (approximate)

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     "range": "2024–",
     "summary": "web clipper, bases, audits, a cli for agents — the product keeps compounding while the industry around it pivots to ai.",
     "title": "recent history"
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6. omniflow begins · timeline · 2015-03 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "shida li and erica xu — waterloo students — start 'omniflow,' a web outliner, as a side project. it is the direct ancestor of both dynalist and obsidian.",
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7. omniflow becomes dynalist · timeline · 2015-07 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "after a hacker news front-page post and a product hunt top-ten, omniflow is renamed dynalist — partly over potential conflict with the omni group.",
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8. dynalist becomes the runway · timeline · 2015 (year) · inferred (original editorial confidence)

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     "confidence": "inferred",
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     "detail": "dynalist grows into a freemium outlining saas run by two people — and its revenue later lets them build obsidian without outside money.",
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9. the local-first paper · timeline · 2019-05 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "confidence": "reported",
     "date": "2019-05",
     "detail": "ink & switch publishes 'local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud' — kleppmann, wiggins, van hardenberg, mcgranaghan — naming the architecture obsidian is about to ship as a product.",
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10. conceived in quarantine · timeline · 2020-01 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "obsidian is conceived during covid quarantine — erica had carried the idea for about two years; a fan wiki claims the first line of code was written january 31, 2020, which is plausible but single-source and weak.",
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11. v0.0.1 · timeline · 2020-03-30 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "desktop v0.0.1 — the earliest release in the official changelog, and the first distributable electron build. access stays limited to alpha testers.",
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12. rapid alpha iteration · timeline · 2020-04-10 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2020-04-10",
      "detail": "v0.1.0 ships inside two weeks of v0.0.1; the obsidian.md homepage is live and archived the same day.",
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13. plugin registry pre-staged · timeline · 2020-05-08 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2020-05-08",
      "detail": "the obsidian-releases github repo — later home of the community plugin and theme registries — is created three weeks before the public beta. the plugin economy was planned, not emergent.",
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14. the forum goes live · timeline · 2020-05-19 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2020-05-19",
      "detail": "the obsidian forum's first topics are timestamped may 19–20 — licat is user #1, silver user #2, invited by him. the community infrastructure is populated in the final days of the private beta.",
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15. catalyst insider builds · timeline · 2020-05-24 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2020-05-24",
      "detail": "changelog v0.6.4 notes catalyst license holders can enable insider builds — the early-access paid tier exists before the public launch.",
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16. the show hn launch · timeline · 2020-05-27 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2020-05-27",
      "detail": "erica posts 'show hn: obsidian — a knowledge base that works on local markdown files.' it reaches ~1,087 points. in the thread she names the three values: local-first, plain-text markdown, and 'linking like an ide.' publish is already planned but 'not yet available.'",
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17. dynalist hands its users over · timeline · 2020-05-30 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2020-05-30",
      "detail": "the dynalist blog tells its users the public beta 'was launched two days ago' — 'obsidian values connections more, whereas dynalist values structures more… we will develop and maintain dynalist as usual.'",
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18. the pricing menu · timeline · 2020-07-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2020-07-18",
      "detail": "the wayback pricing snapshot already shows the whole business model: personal use free, catalyst from $25 one-time, commercial $50/user/year, sync early-bird $4/month, publish early-bird $8/month/site — services pre-sold before sync shipped.",
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19. the name explained · timeline · 2020-08-27 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "silver answers 'why is obsidian named so?' — 'if your raw, unstable thoughts are lava, then obsidian is… well, obsidian. it is your crystallized (and beautiful) knowledge.' plus minecraft: the hardest block in the game.",
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20. obsidian publish ships · timeline · 2020-09-30 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "v0.9.2 ships the publish plugin — obsidian publish, the paid site-publishing service, is live. publish actually predates sync as the first add-on.",
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21. the plugin directory · timeline · 2020-10-29 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "v0.9.8 adds the in-app community plugin browser — the formal start of the plugin economy that becomes the moat.",
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22. obsidian sync · timeline · 2020-12-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2020-12-07",
      "detail": "obsidian sync becomes purchasable on insider builds — end-to-end encryption, selective sync, version history — and reaches the public channel about a week later.",
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23. mobile closed beta · timeline · 2021-03-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "mobile v0.0.12 — the first changelogged mobile build, in closed beta for catalyst vips.",
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24. mobile ships · timeline · 2021-07-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2021-07-07",
      "detail": "mobile v1.0.0 goes public on ios and android; the public-facing launch lands july 12 — #1 product of the day on product hunt, 760 points on hn.",
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25. early-bird endgame · timeline · 2021-07-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2021-07-01",
      "detail": "silver announces early-bird pricing ends september 30 — and in the same post tells users which free alternatives (icloud, git, hugo) work instead. buyers who paid once keep the discount for life.",
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26. first obsidian october · timeline · 2021-09-21 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the first obsidian october — a community build event for plugins and themes. the judges include liam, mgmeyers, argentum, and kepano — community members who later joined or shaped the team.",
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27. live preview · timeline · 2021-11-10 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "v0.13.0 introduces experimental live preview — wysiwyg-style editing, the most-requested feature since launch; it becomes the default editor a month later.",
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28. gems of the year · timeline · 2021-12-08 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "silver opens the first named gems of the year awards — 'that time of the year again' implies a 2020 precursor that was never formally named.",
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29. obsidian 1.0 · timeline · 2022-10-13 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2022-10-13",
      "detail": "obsidian 1.0.0 drops the beta label — a redesigned ui (contracted to kepano), tabs, tab stacks, theme versioning. hn: ~1,329 points, 565 comments. erica notes the first private beta users came 'from a comment under a hn thread about org-roam.'",
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30. canvas · timeline · 2022-12-05 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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31. kepano becomes ceo · timeline · 2023-02-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "steph ango — kepano, the minimal theme author who pitched the founders rather than the reverse — joins full-time as ceo. 'there are no investors pushing us to compromise on these values.'",
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32. publish repriced down · timeline · 2023-04-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "publish is repriced down to $96/year or $10/month per site — the first of several kepano-era price cuts.",
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33. pdf support · timeline · 2023-05-09 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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34. new icon, first stats · timeline · 2023-06-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "kepano's first company byline: the new gem-style icon, the knapping metaphor, and the first official stats — ~1,000 community plugins, 100,000 discord members, 1 million downloads on the latest release. the blog and changelog pages debut the same day.",
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35. properties · timeline · 2023-08-31 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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36. beyond a million users · timeline · 2023-11-21 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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37. first security audit · timeline · 2023-12-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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38. sync standard · timeline · 2024-03-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "a cheaper sync standard plan launches at $4/month billed yearly — answering the pricing critique with a lower rung.",
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39. the five-hour outage · timeline · 2024-08-24 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "a ~5-hour outage takes down sync, publish, login, and signup — a forced reboot plus a misconfigured auto-restart. licat posts the postmortem on discord; it survives via a lemmy mirror.",
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40. web clipper · timeline · 2024-11-11 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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41. free for work · timeline · 2025-02-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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42. bases · timeline · 2025-08-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "bases reaches all users — database-style views over note properties, saved as plain .base files. the biggest core-feature addition since canvas, and the flashpoint of the 'scope creep' debate.",
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43. the sync audits · timeline · 2025-12-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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44. the obsidian cli · timeline · 2026-02-27 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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45. the community directory relaunch · timeline · 2026-05-12 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "community.obsidian.md relaunches with a developer dashboard and automated per-version security review — because coding agents flooded the queue: 4,000+ plugins and themes, 120m+ downloads, a 2,300-submission backlog cleared.",
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