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file over app — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-07-01, primary). 'in the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.' the three-word philosophy.
quality software deserves your hard-earned cash — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-10-27, primary). 'quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer's market' — the indie-software economics essay that topped hacker news.
100% user-supported — stephango.com, steph ango (2024-02-10, primary). the anti-vc manifesto — 'eventually all vcware must exit… being 100% user-supported is by far the most fun way to build.'
in good hands — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-08-07, primary). craft and omakase trust — 'i know i am in good hands when i sense a cohesive point of view expressed with attention to detail.'
how i use obsidian — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-09, primary). his public vault template — no folders, profuse links, fractal journaling.
evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate — stephango.com, steph ango (2022-09-17, primary). the matuschak-derived note practice in his own words.
40 questions to ask yourself every year — stephango.com, steph ango (2016-10-20, primary). his most-shared artifact — an annual ritual translated into 35 languages by the internet.
flexoki — stephango.com, steph ango (2023, primary). the inky oklab-derived color scheme 'for prose and code' — named from flexography, ported to dozens of apps.
calmness is a superpower — stephango.com, steph ango (2022-10-09, primary). 'you can be the calm one' — the calm-software temperament essay.
photoshop for text — stephango.com, steph ango (2022-10-18, primary). the prescient 2022 essay — 'language models need to be local to the device so that they be private, offline and future-proof.'
style is consistent constraint — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-09-03, primary). 'style is a set of constraints that you stick to' — sub-500-word essays, monochromatic clothes, yyyy-mm-dd dates.
use the saw, fear the saw — stephango.com, steph ango (2025-10-20, primary). 'we should not stop making powerful tools because they are dangerous. rather, we should empower people to use powerful tools safely.' — his ai stance.
if you're remote, ramble — stephango.com, steph ango (2025-07-31, primary). obsidian's no-meetings culture — per-person muted 'ramblings' channels and an annual week-long meetup.
a camera for ideas — stephango.com, steph ango (2022-07-23, primary). the essay that coined 'synthography' — 'a new kind of camera… turns ideas into pictures.'
agents of chaos — stephango.com, steph ango (2012-11-21, primary). his 2012 juvenilia — knowledge 'sourced with more or less certainty by billions of agents — human at first but increasingly animal and robotic.' the agent era, drafted a decade early.
recipes — stephango.com, steph ango (2022, primary). eight published recipes, including the deluxe chocolate chip cookies.
minimal theme — stephango.com, steph ango (2020, primary). the minimal project page — the theme, minimal.guide docs, and the companion plugins.
obsidian (project page) — stephango.com, steph ango (2024, primary). his own project page for obsidian — 'community contributor → ceo feb 2023.'
computer show — stephango.com, steph ango (2015, primary). the retro-comedy youtube show about computers he produced and guest-starred in.
i'm joining obsidian full-time as ceo — obsidian, steph ango (2023-02-06, primary). the letter — 'obsidian is, and will continue to be: free to use, built on durable open file formats without lock-in, private, endlessly customizable… above all, obsidian is 100% user-supported.'
live preview update — obsidian, erica xu (2021-12-15, primary). the silver-byline post shipping the 0.13 live preview editor engine.
2020 gems of the year winners — obsidian, erica xu (2021-01-09, primary). the silver-byline gems-of-the-year winners post — the community-award machinery she built.
credits — obsidian, obsidian (2024, primary). the official credits — core team, contributors, moderators, alumni, and sandy the office cat.
credits.md — github — obsidianmd/obsidian-help, obsidian (2024, repo). the repository mirror of the credits file, epithets included.
obsidian ceo steph ango on productivity software and notes apps — the verge, casey newton (2025-08-18, interview). the verge's decoder — 'how the head of obsidian went from superfan to ceo.' seven ftes, profitable five years, no analytics, ai the biggest plugin category, 'all of the llms speak markdown.'
dialectic ep.8 — tools for amplifying our light — dialectic, jackson dahl (2025, interview). his longest conversation — writing, design, agency; biology and industrial design bio.
evergreen notes with stephan ango — ep.81 — metamuse, metamuse (2023, interview). the muse podcast on evergreen notes — team was six full-time, 'tools for thought rubs him the wrong way.'
the interconnectedness of everything — #28 kepano — the other stuff, internetvin (2025, interview). the 221-minute one — the kepano name origin, winamp skins, furniture, kepiano, cookies.
fireside chat with @kepano — linking your thinking, nick milo (2023, interview). the linking your thinking fireside chat — team vaults and shared defaults.
the future of obsidian live — fork my brain, nicole van der hoeven (2023, interview). the future of obsidian livestream — the superfan-to-ceo path.
why we should return to a local-first culture in the digital age — youtube (n.d., interview). the local-first culture talk — japan and long-term-company thinking.
thoroughly considered ep.93 — relay fm, relay fm (2023, interview). the pure side-quest episode — the hario v60 coffee maker.
the new disruptors ep.11 — the new disruptors, glenn fleishman (2011, interview). the earliest recorded kepano interview — inkodye era.
giant robots ep.286 — giant robots, thoughtbot (2018, interview). lumi and the purescript libraries.
shida li — linkedin, linkedin (current, primary). uw software engineering 2012–2017; the dynalist stack in his own words.
steph ango — linkedin, linkedin (current, primary). colorado college biology, artcenter industrial design, flex delft, narvar.
erica xu — linkedin, linkedin (current, primary). 'i also make obsidian' — oakville.
lishid profile and repos — github, shida li (current, repo). orebfuscator and openinv — the famous minecraft bukkit plugins are still his top-starred repos.
kepano profile and repos — github, steph ango (current, repo). obsidian-minimal ~5.4k stars; obsidian-skills ~48k stars as accessed september 2026.
ericaxu profile — github, erica xu (current, repo). joined github november 2011; location field: 'maple syrup land.'
quantified-chef — github, erica xu (2016, repo). 'track your cooking!' — the quantified chef repo.
second-year students victorious at nokia imaging hackathon — u waterloo cs, university of waterloo (2013-09-18, reporting). shida li and rudi chen's 27-hour nokia imaging hackathon win in lund, sweden.
stephan ango — wikitia (current, reference). born december 18, 1985, paris; raised in meudon; french father, american mother. secondary-grade wiki — flagged.
stephan ango profile — creativemornings, creativemornings (2014, primary). the lumi-era profile — 'evolutionary biologist. or sandwich architect.'
리 시다 (shida li) — korean wikipedia (current, reference). the korean wikipedia bio — toronto-based chinese-canadian; dynalist inc. in oakville.
start here — silverland — ericaxu.com, erica xu (current, primary). her live digital garden on obsidian publish with flexoki — the product hosting its co-founder's brain.
shida li — garden note — ericaxu.com, erica xu (current, primary). 'my partner in crime… known as licat in the mabinogi community too.'
how i think — ericaxu.com, erica xu (current, primary). 'i think in patterns and forces… in order to make real impact, you need to ride the waves.'
on understanding — ericaxu.com, erica xu (2025-06-12, primary). 'life is a game of predict… creating is the ultimate test of understanding' — with feynman.
forces — ericaxu.com, erica xu (current, primary). 'physical forces decide how objects behave, and mental forces decide how people behave' — her named framework.
music patterns — ericaxu.com, erica xu (current, primary). 'melody is the character. rhythm is the plot. harmony is the setting.'
erica xu — old site — github pages, erica xu (2016, archive). the ~2016 personal site — intj, the education critique, the project list, the dormant edu blog, the death calc.
dynalist enters the 'hobby work' phase — outlinersoftware.com, outlinersoftware (2021-02-28, community). the forum coverage that quoted and contextualized the 'hobby work' post.
为什么 obsidian 要叫做 obsidian — github discussions — obsidianzh, obsidian zh (n.d., community). the chinese translation of the name-origin post — the name traveled further than the interviews.
history of obsidian — taskade blog, taskade (2026, reporting). a secondary history — the minimal-to-dms-to-ceo narrative and the waterloo origin.
obsidian: $25m arr, 8 people 1 cat — readthesignal.co, the signal (2026, reporting). '$25m arr, 8 people 1 cat' — speculative arr/valuation claims, flagged as such.
oss business models research — devonmeadows.com, commune research (n.d., reporting). oss business-model research quoting kepano and silver on files and open source.
crazy fun fact about obsidian — medium, francesco d'alessio (2020, community). the 'crazy fun fact' post — three people, and liam cain as the third member.
obsidian-style-settings — github, matthew meyers (2021-03, repo). the actual author of style settings — mgmeyers, not kepano.
joethei profile — github, johannes theiner (current, repo). 'worked as a software developer in the obsidian team' — plugin review.
johannes theiner — linkedin, johannes theiner (current, primary). obsidian since july 2022 — plugin code review.
sigrunixia profile — github, rebbecca bishop (current, repo). community moderator to staff — customer experience, docs maintainer.
shida li on product hunt — product hunt, shida li (current, primary). his maker page — obsidian was hunted by the founders themselves in may 2020.
three engineers, zero financing — 36kr en, 36kr (2025, reporting). the waterloo and quarantine-origin recap — the chinese-press view of the founding.
local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud — ink & switch, martin kleppmann, adam wiggins, peter van hardenberg, mark mcgranaghan (2019-05, primary). the ink & switch paper that named local-first software — seven ideals including the one obsidian still doesn't satisfy: seamless collaboration.
ink & switch — ink & switch, ink & switch (2017, primary). the research lab adjacent to obsidian's philosophy — conceptually, not by employment.
season 1 transcript — local-first fm, local-first fm (2024, interview). the practitioner and author discussion of local-first's state.
why people are obsessed with obsidian, the indie darling of note-taking apps — fast company, casey newton (2023-09, reporting). the 'indie darling' profile — ~1m users per the company's own estimate, 110k+ discord, ~94.6k subreddit members. paywalled; figures via cited summaries.
kepano on obsidian's unknowable user count — mastodon, steph ango (2025-07, primary). 'no one knows how many users obsidian has. i think it's around 5-10 million… anyone can download the app… there are no analytics built-in.' the post is confirmed; the estimate is a ceo guess.
obsidian is growing up — mitchwagner.com, mitch wagner (2023-02-06, community). the ceo-news community reaction — 'obsidian is growing up.'
obsidian 1.0 — macsparky, david sparks (2022-10, community). the mainstream power-user reception of 1.0.
obsidian 1.0 release — it's foss, it's foss (2022-10, reporting). the linux-community coverage of 1.0.
obsidian discord community listing — the hive index, the hive index (2024, reporting). community-size corroboration for the discord.
obsidian ios app is now available — the sweet setup, the sweet setup (2021-07, reporting). the mobile launch coverage.
what's the point of the graph view? how are you using it? — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2021, community). the long-running community thread — users divided on whether the graph does anything.
is the obsidian graph useless? — drearicheli.blog, dre aricheli (2023, community). the skeptical graph-view analysis.
making obsidian's graph view actually useful — danholloran.me, dan holloran (2023, community). a practitioner's fixes — which imply the default falls short.
is obsidian's graph view useful? — codeculture.store, code culture (2023, community). more graph-utility debate.
the value (or lack thereof) in bidirectional linking — nathansnelgrove.com, nathan snelgrove (2023-08, community). the insider critique — the linking payoff questioned by a community member.
quitting the paint factory — nathansnelgrove.com, nathan snelgrove (2023-08, community). the community-management burnout perspective.

Original source occurrences

file over app · stephango.com · 2023-07-01 (day) · original ID: src-file-over-app · steph ango
'in the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.' the three-word philosophy.
quality software deserves your hard-earned cash · stephango.com · 2023-10-27 (day) · original ID: src-p-quality-software · steph ango
'quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer's market' — the indie-software economics essay that topped hacker news.
100% user-supported · stephango.com · 2024-02-10 (day) · original ID: src-p-vcware · steph ango
the anti-vc manifesto — 'eventually all vcware must exit… being 100% user-supported is by far the most fun way to build.'
in good hands · stephango.com · 2023-08-07 (day) · original ID: src-p-in-good-hands · steph ango
craft and omakase trust — 'i know i am in good hands when i sense a cohesive point of view expressed with attention to detail.'
how i use obsidian · stephango.com · 2023-09 (month) · original ID: src-p-vault · steph ango
his public vault template — no folders, profuse links, fractal journaling.
evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate · stephango.com · 2022-09-17 (day) · original ID: src-p-evergreen-notes · steph ango
the matuschak-derived note practice in his own words.
40 questions to ask yourself every year · stephango.com · 2016-10-20 (day) · original ID: src-p-40-questions · steph ango
his most-shared artifact — an annual ritual translated into 35 languages by the internet.
flexoki · stephango.com · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-p-flexoki · steph ango
the inky oklab-derived color scheme 'for prose and code' — named from flexography, ported to dozens of apps.
calmness is a superpower · stephango.com · 2022-10-09 (day) · original ID: src-p-calmness · steph ango
'you can be the calm one' — the calm-software temperament essay.
photoshop for text · stephango.com · 2022-10-18 (day) · original ID: src-p-photoshop-for-text · steph ango
the prescient 2022 essay — 'language models need to be local to the device so that they be private, offline and future-proof.'
style is consistent constraint · stephango.com · 2023-09-03 (day) · original ID: src-p-style · steph ango
'style is a set of constraints that you stick to' — sub-500-word essays, monochromatic clothes, yyyy-mm-dd dates.
use the saw, fear the saw · stephango.com · 2025-10-20 (day) · original ID: src-p-saw · steph ango
'we should not stop making powerful tools because they are dangerous. rather, we should empower people to use powerful tools safely.' — his ai stance.
if you're remote, ramble · stephango.com · 2025-07-31 (day) · original ID: src-p-ramblings · steph ango
obsidian's no-meetings culture — per-person muted 'ramblings' channels and an annual week-long meetup.
a camera for ideas · stephango.com · 2022-07-23 (day) · original ID: src-p-synthography · steph ango
the essay that coined 'synthography' — 'a new kind of camera… turns ideas into pictures.'
agents of chaos · stephango.com · 2012-11-21 (day) · original ID: src-i-agents-of-chaos · steph ango
his 2012 juvenilia — knowledge 'sourced with more or less certainty by billions of agents — human at first but increasingly animal and robotic.' the agent era, drafted a decade early.
recipes · stephango.com · 2022 (year) · original ID: src-p-recipes · steph ango
eight published recipes, including the deluxe chocolate chip cookies.
minimal theme · stephango.com · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-p-minimal · steph ango
the minimal project page — the theme, minimal.guide docs, and the companion plugins.
obsidian (project page) · stephango.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-project · steph ango
his own project page for obsidian — 'community contributor → ceo feb 2023.'
computer show · stephango.com · 2015 (year) · original ID: src-p-computer-show · steph ango
the retro-comedy youtube show about computers he produced and guest-starred in.
i'm joining obsidian full-time as ceo · obsidian · 2023-02-06 (day) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-ceo-blog · steph ango
the letter — 'obsidian is, and will continue to be: free to use, built on durable open file formats without lock-in, private, endlessly customizable… above all, obsidian is 100% user-supported.'
live preview update · obsidian · 2021-12-15 (day) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-blog-livepreview · erica xu
the silver-byline post shipping the 0.13 live preview editor engine.
2020 gems of the year winners · obsidian · 2021-01-09 (day) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-blog-gems · erica xu
the silver-byline gems-of-the-year winners post — the community-award machinery she built.
credits · obsidian · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-obsidian-credits · obsidian
the official credits — core team, contributors, moderators, alumni, and sandy the office cat.
credits.md · github — obsidianmd/obsidian-help · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-p-credits-md · obsidian
the repository mirror of the credits file, epithets included.
obsidian ceo steph ango on productivity software and notes apps · the verge · 2025-08-18 (day) · original ID: src-p-decoder · casey newton
the verge's decoder — 'how the head of obsidian went from superfan to ceo.' seven ftes, profitable five years, no analytics, ai the biggest plugin category, 'all of the llms speak markdown.'
dialectic ep.8 — tools for amplifying our light · dialectic · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-p-dialectic · jackson dahl
his longest conversation — writing, design, agency; biology and industrial design bio.
evergreen notes with stephan ango — ep.81 · metamuse · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-p-metamuse · metamuse
the muse podcast on evergreen notes — team was six full-time, 'tools for thought rubs him the wrong way.'
the interconnectedness of everything — #28 kepano · the other stuff · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-p-other-stuff · internetvin
the 221-minute one — the kepano name origin, winamp skins, furniture, kepiano, cookies.
fireside chat with @kepano · linking your thinking · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-p-lyt-fireside · nick milo
the linking your thinking fireside chat — team vaults and shared defaults.
the future of obsidian live · fork my brain · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-p-forkmybrain · nicole van der hoeven
the future of obsidian livestream — the superfan-to-ceo path.
why we should return to a local-first culture in the digital age · youtube · n.d. (unknown) · original ID: src-p-localfirst-video
the local-first culture talk — japan and long-term-company thinking.
thoroughly considered ep.93 · relay fm · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-p-thoroughly-considered · relay fm
the pure side-quest episode — the hario v60 coffee maker.
the new disruptors ep.11 · the new disruptors · 2011 (year) · original ID: src-p-new-disruptors-2011 · glenn fleishman
the earliest recorded kepano interview — inkodye era.
giant robots ep.286 · giant robots · 2018 (year) · original ID: src-p-giant-robots · thoughtbot
lumi and the purescript libraries.
shida li · linkedin · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-linkedin-lishid · linkedin
uw software engineering 2012–2017; the dynalist stack in his own words.
steph ango · linkedin · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-linkedin-stephango · linkedin
colorado college biology, artcenter industrial design, flex delft, narvar.
erica xu · linkedin · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-linkedin-ericaxu · linkedin
'i also make obsidian' — oakville.
lishid profile and repos · github · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-github-lishid · shida li
orebfuscator and openinv — the famous minecraft bukkit plugins are still his top-starred repos.
kepano profile and repos · github · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-github-kepano · steph ango
obsidian-minimal ~5.4k stars; obsidian-skills ~48k stars as accessed september 2026.
ericaxu profile · github · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-github-ericaxu · erica xu
joined github november 2011; location field: 'maple syrup land.'
quantified-chef · github · 2016 (year) · original ID: src-p-quantified-chef · erica xu
'track your cooking!' — the quantified chef repo.
second-year students victorious at nokia imaging hackathon · u waterloo cs · 2013-09-18 (day) · original ID: src-p-uw-news · university of waterloo
shida li and rudi chen's 27-hour nokia imaging hackathon win in lund, sweden.
stephan ango · wikitia · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-wikitia-ango
born december 18, 1985, paris; raised in meudon; french father, american mother. secondary-grade wiki — flagged.
stephan ango profile · creativemornings · 2014 (year) · original ID: src-p-creativemornings · creativemornings
the lumi-era profile — 'evolutionary biologist. or sandwich architect.'
리 시다 (shida li) · korean wikipedia · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-ko-wiki-lishid
the korean wikipedia bio — toronto-based chinese-canadian; dynalist inc. in oakville.
start here — silverland · ericaxu.com · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-silverland · erica xu
her live digital garden on obsidian publish with flexoki — the product hosting its co-founder's brain.
shida li — garden note · ericaxu.com · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-silverland-shida · erica xu
'my partner in crime… known as licat in the mabinogi community too.'
how i think · ericaxu.com · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-silverland-howithink · erica xu
'i think in patterns and forces… in order to make real impact, you need to ride the waves.'
on understanding · ericaxu.com · 2025-06-12 (day) · original ID: src-p-silverland-understanding · erica xu
'life is a game of predict… creating is the ultimate test of understanding' — with feynman.
forces · ericaxu.com · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-silverland-forces · erica xu
'physical forces decide how objects behave, and mental forces decide how people behave' — her named framework.
music patterns · ericaxu.com · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-silverland-music · erica xu
'melody is the character. rhythm is the plot. harmony is the setting.'
erica xu — old site · github pages · 2016 (year) · original ID: src-p-erica-old-site · erica xu
the ~2016 personal site — intj, the education critique, the project list, the dormant edu blog, the death calc.
dynalist enters the 'hobby work' phase · outlinersoftware.com · 2021-02-28 (day) · original ID: src-p-outliner-software · outlinersoftware
the forum coverage that quoted and contextualized the 'hobby work' post.
为什么 obsidian 要叫做 obsidian · github discussions — obsidianzh · n.d. (unknown) · original ID: src-p-obsidianzh · obsidian zh
the chinese translation of the name-origin post — the name traveled further than the interviews.
history of obsidian · taskade blog · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-p-taskade-history · taskade
a secondary history — the minimal-to-dms-to-ceo narrative and the waterloo origin.
obsidian: $25m arr, 8 people 1 cat · readthesignal.co · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-p-signal · the signal
'$25m arr, 8 people 1 cat' — speculative arr/valuation claims, flagged as such.
oss business models research · devonmeadows.com · n.d. (unknown) · original ID: src-p-commune · commune research
oss business-model research quoting kepano and silver on files and open source.
crazy fun fact about obsidian · medium · 2020 (year) · original ID: src-p-medium-francesco · francesco d'alessio
the 'crazy fun fact' post — three people, and liam cain as the third member.
obsidian-style-settings · github · 2021-03 (month) · original ID: src-p-mgmeyers-style · matthew meyers
the actual author of style settings — mgmeyers, not kepano.
joethei profile · github · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-joethei-github · johannes theiner
'worked as a software developer in the obsidian team' — plugin review.
johannes theiner · linkedin · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-joethei-linkedin · johannes theiner
obsidian since july 2022 — plugin code review.
sigrunixia profile · github · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-sigrunixia-github · rebbecca bishop
community moderator to staff — customer experience, docs maintainer.
shida li on product hunt · product hunt · current (approximate) · original ID: src-p-producthunt-shida · shida li
his maker page — obsidian was hunted by the founders themselves in may 2020.
three engineers, zero financing · 36kr en · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-p-36kr · 36kr
the waterloo and quarantine-origin recap — the chinese-press view of the founding.
local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud · ink & switch · 2019-05 (month) · original ID: src-local-first · martin kleppmann, adam wiggins, peter van hardenberg, mark mcgranaghan
the ink & switch paper that named local-first software — seven ideals including the one obsidian still doesn't satisfy: seamless collaboration.
ink & switch · ink & switch · 2017 (year) · original ID: src-inkandswitch · ink & switch
the research lab adjacent to obsidian's philosophy — conceptually, not by employment.
season 1 transcript · local-first fm · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-localfirst-fm · local-first fm
the practitioner and author discussion of local-first's state.
why people are obsessed with obsidian, the indie darling of note-taking apps · fast company · 2023-09 (month) · original ID: src-i-fastcompany-obsidian · casey newton
the 'indie darling' profile — ~1m users per the company's own estimate, 110k+ discord, ~94.6k subreddit members. paywalled; figures via cited summaries.
kepano on obsidian's unknowable user count · mastodon · 2025-07 (month) · original ID: src-i-kepano-mastodon · steph ango
'no one knows how many users obsidian has. i think it's around 5-10 million… anyone can download the app… there are no analytics built-in.' the post is confirmed; the estimate is a ceo guess.
obsidian is growing up · mitchwagner.com · 2023-02-06 (day) · original ID: src-i-mitchwagner · mitch wagner
the ceo-news community reaction — 'obsidian is growing up.'
obsidian 1.0 · macsparky · 2022-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-macsparky · david sparks
the mainstream power-user reception of 1.0.
obsidian 1.0 release · it's foss · 2022-10 (month) · original ID: src-i-itsfoss · it's foss
the linux-community coverage of 1.0.
obsidian discord community listing · the hive index · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-i-discord-hive · the hive index
community-size corroboration for the discord.
obsidian ios app is now available · the sweet setup · 2021-07 (month) · original ID: src-i-sweetsetup · the sweet setup
the mobile launch coverage.
what's the point of the graph view? how are you using it? · obsidian forum · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-i-graph-forum · obsidian forum
the long-running community thread — users divided on whether the graph does anything.
is the obsidian graph useless? · drearicheli.blog · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-i-graph-useless · dre aricheli
the skeptical graph-view analysis.
making obsidian's graph view actually useful · danholloran.me · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-i-graph-useful · dan holloran
a practitioner's fixes — which imply the default falls short.
is obsidian's graph view useful? · codeculture.store · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-i-graph-codeculture · code culture
more graph-utility debate.
the value (or lack thereof) in bidirectional linking · nathansnelgrove.com · 2023-08 (month) · original ID: src-i-bidirectional · nathan snelgrove
the insider critique — the linking payoff questioned by a community member.
quitting the paint factory · nathansnelgrove.com · 2023-08 (month) · original ID: src-i-quitting-paint-factory · nathan snelgrove
the community-management burnout perspective.

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