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every source cited in the obsidian history, with its date and type.
- as we may think — the atlantic, vannevar bush (1945-07, primary). the memex — the founding image of knowledge as a trail network that every tool-for-thought inherits.
- augmenting human intellect: a conceptual framework — doug engelbart institute, doug engelbart (1962-10, primary). computers as intellectual prostheses — the report behind the mother of all demos.
- the mother of all demos — wikipedia (1968-12-09, reference). the 1968 nls demo: hypertext, the mouse, dynamic file linking, and real-time collaboration in one system.
- communicating with slip boxes — luhmann archive (surge.sh mirror), niklas luhmann (1980s, primary). luhmann's own account of the slip-box as a communication partner that surprises you.
- zettelkasten — wikipedia (2024, reference). the method lineage — ~90,000 cards behind ~70 books.
- zettelkasten method overview — zettelkasten.de (2020, reporting). the practitioner canonization of luhmann's method for digital notes.
- project xanadu — wikipedia (2024, reference). nelson's hypertext and transclusion vision — the field's canonical unfinished project.
- notecards — wikipedia (2024, reference). xerox parc's hypertext personal knowledge base — its browser card is the graph view's direct ancestor.
- wikiwikiweb — wikipedia (2024, reference). cunningham's 1995 wiki — linking before writing, camelcase as invitation.
- wikihistory — c2.com, ward cunningham (2000s, primary). the first-party history of the first wiki.
- how can we develop transformative tools for thought? — numinous productions, andy matuschak and michael nielsen (2019-10, primary). the essay that named the movement and its ambition — tools that expand what people can think.
- evergreen notes — notes.andymatuschak.org, andy matuschak (2020, primary). atomic, concept-titled, evolving notes as the unit of knowledge work — the practice obsidian hosts.
- building a second brain — simon element, tiago forte (2022-06-14, primary). the mass-market second-brain method — capture, organize, distill, express.
- linking your thinking — linking your thinking, nick milo (2020, primary). the community and education layer built around linking practice.
- lyt conference 3 speaker page: kepano — linking your thinking, linking your thinking (2023, primary). kepano's lyt conference bio — inkodye, lumi, then obsidian ceo; notably no ink & switch employment.
- roam research — a note-taking tool for networked thought — roam research, roam research (2019, primary). the wave's commercial spearhead — networked thought in the cloud.
- roam (software)) — wikipedia (2024, reference). launch, pricing, the $200m seed, and the decline arc.
- a $200 million seed valuation for roam shows investor frenzy for note-taking apps — boffosocko.com, chris aldrich (2020-09-11, reporting). the september 2020 ~$200m seed-valuation report — the peak marker of the tools-for-thought bubble.
- roam research coverage — the hustle, the hustle (2020-09-14, reporting). the #roamcult dynamics at peak hype.
- the note-taking app wars — the verge, david pierce (2023-08-25, reporting). the note-taking wars field survey, including the storage-vs-thinking critique.
- logseq — logseq, logseq (2020, primary). the open-source sibling — local markdown/org files under agpl.
- logseq — wikipedia (2024, reference). agpl, local files, positioning.
- notion — notion, notion (2024, primary). the cloud workspace incumbent.
- notion (productivity software)) — wikipedia (2024, reference). the scale and collaboration counterpoint.
- tana — tana, tana (2022, primary). supertag graph-database notes — the wave's most aggressive structure-over-files bet.
- tana outliner — tana, tana (2025, primary). tana's agent and outliner surface.
- capacities — capacities, capacities (2022, primary). object-based notes — keeps the structure, drops the files.
- heptabase — heptabase, heptabase (2021, primary). visual-spatial pkm — whiteboards and cards, now with an agent/cli surface.
- mem — mem, mem (2024, primary). the 'ai chief of staff' repositioning — agent-first, files-never.
- anyproto/anytype-ts — github, anytype (2024, repo). local-first, e2e-encrypted, open-source object workspace — ~8.8k stars as accessed september 2026.
- subconscious — subconscious.network, gordon brander (2026, community). the most direct ink & switch-lineage successor experiment; the domain sat parked/for-sale as accessed september 2026 — local-first without a business model dies.
- obsidian — obsidian, obsidian (2020, primary). the product site — 'the free and flexible app for your private thoughts.'
- about obsidian — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). the manifesto and team roster — yours, durable, private, malleable, independent.
- obsidian blog — obsidian, obsidian (2020, primary). the company blog — launch posts, version announcements, and kepano-era letters.
- obsidian forum — obsidian forum, obsidian (2020, primary). the community forum — the earliest public record of the beta period and the founders' own voices.
- obsidian help — obsidian, obsidian (2021, primary). the official help vault, itself an obsidian vault — documentation as product demonstration.
- show hn: obsidian — a knowledge base that works on local markdown files — hacker news, erica xu (2020-05-27, primary). the launch thread — erica's 'three fundamental values' comment is the cleanest statement of the fork.
- obsidian on product hunt — product hunt (2020-05-27, reporting). launch-day record; review themes already include weak search and mobile.
- obsidian — a knowledge base from a local folder of plain text markdown files — hacker news (2021-10, community). the eighteen-month community verdict — extensibility as the differentiator.
- obsidian 1.0 — hacker news, erica xu (2022-10, primary). the 1.0 thread — 'over 670 plugins' and the org-roam origin of the first beta users.
- obsidian for mobile — product hunt (2021-07-12, reporting). mobile launch — #1 product of the day.
- obsidian mobile v1.0.0 changelog — obsidian, obsidian (2021-07-07, primary). the mobile v1.0.0 baseline.
- the new obsidian icon — obsidian, steph ango (2023-06-01, primary). kepano's first company byline — the knapping metaphor, the 1960s/2060s durability line, and the june 2023 figures: ~1,000 plugins, 100k discord, 1m release downloads.
- obsidian pricing — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). the free-core-plus-services structure in one page.
- obsidian license — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). free for personal and commercial use.
- obsidian privacy policy — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). the no-analytics posture written as policy.
- obsidian sync — obsidian, obsidian (2021, primary). the e2e-encrypted paid sync — half of the revenue model that replaced venture capital.
- sync headless docs — obsidian, obsidian (2025, primary). programmatic vault sync for automation and agents.
- obsidian publish — obsidian, obsidian (2021, primary). the vault-to-website paid service — the other half of the paid layer.
- obsidian web clipper — obsidian, obsidian (2024-11, primary). the browser extension that saves pages as markdown — launched november 2024, with the interpreter feature.
- obsidian cli — obsidian, obsidian (2026, primary). 'read, search, and write to your vault programmatically. give agentic tools the ability to interact with your vault' — verbatim positioning.
- obsidian 1.12 desktop changelog — obsidian, obsidian (2026-02-27, primary). the desktop 1.12 changelog that introduced the cli publicly.
- obsidian 1.9.10 changelog — obsidian, obsidian (2025-08-18, primary). the 1.9.10 changelog — bases shipped to all users august 18, 2025.
- community plugins directory — obsidian community, obsidian (2026-09, primary). the live community directory — 7,701 plugins, 759 themes, 917 in the ai category as accessed september 2026.
- community themes — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). the community theme directory — where minimal became the default aesthetic.
- copilot plugin listing — obsidian community directory, brevilabs llc (2026-09, primary). 'run ai agents such as claude code, codex, and opencode inside your vault' — 1.9m downloads shown as accessed september 2026.
- the future of obsidian plugins — obsidian, obsidian (2026-05-12, primary). 4,000+ plugin and theme projects, 120m downloads, a 2,300-submission review queue cleared by automation — because coding agents are now writing the plugins.
- why obsidian is not open source — obsidian help, obsidian (2024, primary). the official closed-core rationale.
- obsidian roadmap — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). declared work — mobile startup time among it.
- obsidian (software)) — wikipedia (2024, reference). the tertiary record — founders, dynalist lineage, release history.
- dynalist — dynalist, dynalist inc (2015, primary). the outliner shida li and erica xu built before obsidian — the direct prequel and the funding runway.
- dynalist & obsidian — dynalist blog, dynalist team (2020-05-30, primary). 'obsidian public beta was launched two days ago… obsidian values connections more, whereas dynalist values structures more… we will develop and maintain dynalist as usual.'
- about the makers — dynalist forum, shida li and erica xu (2016-11-09, primary). the autobiographical thread — omniflow as a student side project, the hn launch, the division of labor.
- no monthly blog update thread — dynalist forum, erica xu (2021-02, primary). 'dynalist is my hobby work' — the february 2021 thread on priorities, a newborn, and the discord shift, later clarified.
- why is obsidian named so? — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020-08-27, primary). the canonical name answer — 'if your raw, unstable thoughts are lava, then obsidian is… well, obsidian. it is your crystallized (and beautiful) knowledge.' plus minecraft.
- open sourcing of obsidian — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020-08-04, primary). the four-point closed-source rationale — 'the cost to benefit ratio is very low for our small team of 2.'
- note aging — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020-05-25, primary). an early feature musing — 'discover areas in your knowledge base that haven't been reviewed.'
- u/silver.json — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020-05-19, primary). the discourse api record — forum user #2, invited by licat, account created the forum's founding day.
- u/licat.json — obsidian forum, shida li (2020-05-19, primary). the discourse api record — forum user #1, 194 accepted answers, 'solution institution' badge.
- topics created by silver — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020, primary). she seeded the forum's structure — and the gems-of-the-year and obsidian october machinery.
- silver posts by likes — obsidian forum, erica xu (2020, primary). her highest-liked posts — the privacy/auto-updater answer and the markdown data-ownership reply.
- licat posts — obsidian forum, shida li (2020, primary). the technical reply corpus — plugin sandboxing, api design, yaml debates. 'there is ABSOLUTELY NO SECURE WAY to run plugins without severely crippling the plugin api.'
- ceo announcement thread — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2023-02, community). the community reception thread for the ceo announcement.
- translated fork my brain interview — obsidian zh forum, obsidian zh forum (2024-10, community). the translated fork my brain interview — the full superfan-to-ceo narrative and the team roster.
- zh reposts of founder interviews — obsidian zh forum, obsidian zh forum (2024-10-28, community). translated reposts of the ness labs interview — evidence of reach english search misses.
- exploring the power of note-making with the co-founder of obsidian — ness labs, anne-laure le cunff (2021, interview). the primary erica xu interview — origin story, team-of-two-plus-two-cats, plugin philosophy, 'the ide for thought.'
- steph ango — stephango.com, steph ango (2019, primary). kepano's personal site — the largest single corpus in this dossier.
- about me — stephango.com, steph ango (2024, primary). bio, the interview table, and the colophon — the career record: inkodye, lumi, obsidian. no ink & switch.
- what i'm doing now — stephango.com, steph ango (2024, primary). the now page — ceo plus the lumi and well made recap.
- projects — stephango.com, steph ango (2024, primary). the complete dated project list, 2002–2026 — winamp skins to obsidian cli-era tools.
Original source occurrences
- as we may think · the atlantic · 1945-07 (month) · original ID: src-as-we-may-think · vannevar bush
the memex — the founding image of knowledge as a trail network that every tool-for-thought inherits.
- augmenting human intellect: a conceptual framework · doug engelbart institute · 1962-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-engelbart-1962 · doug engelbart
computers as intellectual prostheses — the report behind the mother of all demos.
- the mother of all demos · wikipedia · 1968-12-09 (day) · original ID: src-i-mother-of-all-demos
the 1968 nls demo: hypertext, the mouse, dynamic file linking, and real-time collaboration in one system.
- communicating with slip boxes · luhmann archive (surge.sh mirror) · 1980s (decade) · original ID: src-i-luhmann-slip-boxes · niklas luhmann
luhmann's own account of the slip-box as a communication partner that surprises you.
- zettelkasten · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-wikipedia-zettelkasten
the method lineage — ~90,000 cards behind ~70 books.
- zettelkasten method overview · zettelkasten.de · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-i-zettelkasten-de
the practitioner canonization of luhmann's method for digital notes.
- project xanadu · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-xanadu
nelson's hypertext and transclusion vision — the field's canonical unfinished project.
- notecards · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-notecards
xerox parc's hypertext personal knowledge base — its browser card is the graph view's direct ancestor.
- wikiwikiweb · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-wikiwikiweb
cunningham's 1995 wiki — linking before writing, camelcase as invitation.
- wikihistory · c2.com · 2000s (decade) · original ID: src-i-wiki-history · ward cunningham
the first-party history of the first wiki.
- how can we develop transformative tools for thought? · numinous productions · 2019-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-ttft · andy matuschak and michael nielsen
the essay that named the movement and its ambition — tools that expand what people can think.
- evergreen notes · notes.andymatuschak.org · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-i-evergreen-notes · andy matuschak
atomic, concept-titled, evolving notes as the unit of knowledge work — the practice obsidian hosts.
- building a second brain · simon element · 2022-06-14 (day) · original ID: src-i-basb-book · tiago forte
the mass-market second-brain method — capture, organize, distill, express.
- linking your thinking · linking your thinking · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-i-lyt · nick milo
the community and education layer built around linking practice.
- lyt conference 3 speaker page: kepano · linking your thinking · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-i-lyt-kepano · linking your thinking
kepano's lyt conference bio — inkodye, lumi, then obsidian ceo; notably no ink & switch employment.
- roam research — a note-taking tool for networked thought · roam research · 2019 (year) · original ID: src-i-roam-home · roam research
the wave's commercial spearhead — networked thought in the cloud.
- roam (software) · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-roam-wiki
launch, pricing, the $200m seed, and the decline arc.
- a $200 million seed valuation for roam shows investor frenzy for note-taking apps · boffosocko.com · 2020-09-11 (day) · original ID: src-i-roam-200m · chris aldrich
the september 2020 ~$200m seed-valuation report — the peak marker of the tools-for-thought bubble.
- roam research coverage · the hustle · 2020-09-14 (day) · original ID: src-i-roam-hustle · the hustle
the #roamcult dynamics at peak hype.
- the note-taking app wars · the verge · 2023-08-25 (day) · original ID: src-i-verge-2023-notetaking · david pierce
the note-taking wars field survey, including the storage-vs-thinking critique.
- logseq · logseq · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-i-logseq · logseq
the open-source sibling — local markdown/org files under agpl.
- logseq · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-logseq-wiki
agpl, local files, positioning.
- notion · notion · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-notion · notion
the cloud workspace incumbent.
- notion (productivity software) · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-notion-wiki
the scale and collaboration counterpoint.
- tana · tana · 2022 (year) · original ID: src-i-tana · tana
supertag graph-database notes — the wave's most aggressive structure-over-files bet.
- tana outliner · tana · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-i-tana-outliner · tana
tana's agent and outliner surface.
- capacities · capacities · 2022 (year) · original ID: src-i-capacities · capacities
object-based notes — keeps the structure, drops the files.
- heptabase · heptabase · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-i-heptabase · heptabase
visual-spatial pkm — whiteboards and cards, now with an agent/cli surface.
- mem · mem · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-mem · mem
the 'ai chief of staff' repositioning — agent-first, files-never.
- anyproto/anytype-ts · github · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-anytype · anytype
local-first, e2e-encrypted, open-source object workspace — ~8.8k stars as accessed september 2026.
- subconscious · subconscious.network · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-i-subconscious · gordon brander
the most direct ink & switch-lineage successor experiment; the domain sat parked/for-sale as accessed september 2026 — local-first without a business model dies.
- obsidian · obsidian · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-home · obsidian
the product site — 'the free and flexible app for your private thoughts.'
- about obsidian · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-about · obsidian
the manifesto and team roster — yours, durable, private, malleable, independent.
- obsidian blog · obsidian · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-blog · obsidian
the company blog — launch posts, version announcements, and kepano-era letters.
- obsidian forum · obsidian forum · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-forum · obsidian
the community forum — the earliest public record of the beta period and the founders' own voices.
- obsidian help · obsidian · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-help · obsidian
the official help vault, itself an obsidian vault — documentation as product demonstration.
- show hn: obsidian — a knowledge base that works on local markdown files · hacker news · 2020-05-27 (day) · original ID: src-i-show-hn-obsidian · erica xu
the launch thread — erica's 'three fundamental values' comment is the cleanest statement of the fork.
- obsidian on product hunt · product hunt · 2020-05-27 (day) · original ID: src-i-producthunt-obsidian
launch-day record; review themes already include weak search and mobile.
- obsidian — a knowledge base from a local folder of plain text markdown files · hacker news · 2021-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-hn-1
the eighteen-month community verdict — extensibility as the differentiator.
- obsidian 1.0 · hacker news · 2022-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-hn-1.0 · erica xu
the 1.0 thread — 'over 670 plugins' and the org-roam origin of the first beta users.
- obsidian for mobile · product hunt · 2021-07-12 (day) · original ID: src-i-producthunt-mobile
mobile launch — #1 product of the day.
- obsidian mobile v1.0.0 changelog · obsidian · 2021-07-07 (day) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-mobile-changelog · obsidian
the mobile v1.0.0 baseline.
- the new obsidian icon · obsidian · 2023-06-01 (day) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-icon-blog · steph ango
kepano's first company byline — the knapping metaphor, the 1960s/2060s durability line, and the june 2023 figures: ~1,000 plugins, 100k discord, 1m release downloads.
- obsidian pricing · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-pricing · obsidian
the free-core-plus-services structure in one page.
- obsidian license · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-license · obsidian
free for personal and commercial use.
- obsidian privacy policy · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-privacy · obsidian
the no-analytics posture written as policy.
- obsidian sync · obsidian · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-sync · obsidian
the e2e-encrypted paid sync — half of the revenue model that replaced venture capital.
- sync headless docs · obsidian · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-sync-headless · obsidian
programmatic vault sync for automation and agents.
- obsidian publish · obsidian · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-publish · obsidian
the vault-to-website paid service — the other half of the paid layer.
- obsidian web clipper · obsidian · 2024-11 (month) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-clipper · obsidian
the browser extension that saves pages as markdown — launched november 2024, with the interpreter feature.
- obsidian cli · obsidian · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-cli · obsidian
'read, search, and write to your vault programmatically. give agentic tools the ability to interact with your vault' — verbatim positioning.
- obsidian 1.12 desktop changelog · obsidian · 2026-02-27 (day) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-cli-changelog · obsidian
the desktop 1.12 changelog that introduced the cli publicly.
- obsidian 1.9.10 changelog · obsidian · 2025-08-18 (day) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-bases · obsidian
the 1.9.10 changelog — bases shipped to all users august 18, 2025.
- community plugins directory · obsidian community · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-plugins · obsidian
the live community directory — 7,701 plugins, 759 themes, 917 in the ai category as accessed september 2026.
- community themes · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-obsidian-themes · obsidian
the community theme directory — where minimal became the default aesthetic.
- copilot plugin listing · obsidian community directory · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-copilot · brevilabs llc
'run ai agents such as claude code, codex, and opencode inside your vault' — 1.9m downloads shown as accessed september 2026.
- the future of obsidian plugins · obsidian · 2026-05-12 (day) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-future-plugins · obsidian
4,000+ plugin and theme projects, 120m downloads, a 2,300-submission review queue cleared by automation — because coding agents are now writing the plugins.
- why obsidian is not open source · obsidian help · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-not-oss · obsidian
the official closed-core rationale.
- obsidian roadmap · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-obsidian-roadmap · obsidian
declared work — mobile startup time among it.
- obsidian (software) · wikipedia · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-wikipedia-obsidian
the tertiary record — founders, dynalist lineage, release history.
- dynalist · dynalist · 2015 (year) · original ID: src-dynalist · dynalist inc
the outliner shida li and erica xu built before obsidian — the direct prequel and the funding runway.
- dynalist & obsidian · dynalist blog · 2020-05-30 (day) · original ID: src-p-dynalist-blog-obsidian · dynalist team
'obsidian public beta was launched two days ago… obsidian values connections more, whereas dynalist values structures more… we will develop and maintain dynalist as usual.'
- about the makers · dynalist forum · 2016-11-09 (day) · original ID: src-p-dynalist-makers · shida li and erica xu
the autobiographical thread — omniflow as a student side project, the hn launch, the division of labor.
- no monthly blog update thread · dynalist forum · 2021-02 (month) · original ID: src-p-dynalist-hobby · erica xu
'dynalist is my hobby work' — the february 2021 thread on priorities, a newborn, and the discord shift, later clarified.
- why is obsidian named so? · obsidian forum · 2020-08-27 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-name-origin · erica xu
the canonical name answer — 'if your raw, unstable thoughts are lava, then obsidian is… well, obsidian. it is your crystallized (and beautiful) knowledge.' plus minecraft.
- open sourcing of obsidian · obsidian forum · 2020-08-04 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-open-source · erica xu
the four-point closed-source rationale — 'the cost to benefit ratio is very low for our small team of 2.'
- note aging · obsidian forum · 2020-05-25 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-note-aging · erica xu
an early feature musing — 'discover areas in your knowledge base that haven't been reviewed.'
- u/silver.json · obsidian forum · 2020-05-19 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-silver-json · erica xu
the discourse api record — forum user #2, invited by licat, account created the forum's founding day.
- u/licat.json · obsidian forum · 2020-05-19 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-licat-json · shida li
the discourse api record — forum user #1, 194 accepted answers, 'solution institution' badge.
- topics created by silver · obsidian forum · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-p-forum-silver-topics · erica xu
she seeded the forum's structure — and the gems-of-the-year and obsidian october machinery.
- silver posts by likes · obsidian forum · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-p-forum-silver-search · erica xu
her highest-liked posts — the privacy/auto-updater answer and the markdown data-ownership reply.
- licat posts · obsidian forum · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-p-forum-licat-search · shida li
the technical reply corpus — plugin sandboxing, api design, yaml debates. 'there is ABSOLUTELY NO SECURE WAY to run plugins without severely crippling the plugin api.'
- ceo announcement thread · obsidian forum · 2023-02 (month) · original ID: src-p-forum-ceo-thread · obsidian forum
the community reception thread for the ceo announcement.
- translated fork my brain interview · obsidian zh forum · 2024-10 (month) · original ID: src-p-forum-zh-translation · obsidian zh forum
the translated fork my brain interview — the full superfan-to-ceo narrative and the team roster.
- zh reposts of founder interviews · obsidian zh forum · 2024-10-28 (day) · original ID: src-p-forum-zh-interviews · obsidian zh forum
translated reposts of the ness labs interview — evidence of reach english search misses.
- exploring the power of note-making with the co-founder of obsidian · ness labs · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-p-nesslabs · anne-laure le cunff
the primary erica xu interview — origin story, team-of-two-plus-two-cats, plugin philosophy, 'the ide for thought.'
- steph ango · stephango.com · 2019 (year) · original ID: src-stephango · steph ango
kepano's personal site — the largest single corpus in this dossier.
- about me · stephango.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-stephango-about · steph ango
bio, the interview table, and the colophon — the career record: inkodye, lumi, obsidian. no ink & switch.
- what i'm doing now · stephango.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-stephango-now · steph ango
the now page — ceo plus the lumi and well made recap.
- projects · stephango.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-stephango-projects · steph ango
the complete dated project list, 2002–2026 — winamp skins to obsidian cli-era tools.