- [obsidian's new bases feature is finally replacing notion in my workflow](https://www.xda-developers.com/obsidians-new-bases-feature-replacing-notion-workflow-for-good/) — xda, xda (2025, reporting). bases replacing notion in a workflow — with caveats about catalyst gating and fewer view types.
- [obsidian isn't actually open source — here's the markdown editor that is](https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/obsidian-isnt-actually-open-source-133017499.html) — yahoo tech, xda via yahoo (2026-05, reporting). 'with obsidian's entire stance being that you should own your own data, i just assumed that it was open source — i was wrong.'
- [i ditched obsidian for notebooklm, and i'm so glad i did](https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-obsidian-for-notebooklm/) — xda, xda (2025, community). leaves for ai-first tooling — 'the lack of an integrated ai' as the dealbreaker.
- [i stopped using obsidian after finding this self-hosted notes app](https://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-using-obsidian-after-finding-self-hosted-notes-app/) — xda, xda (2025, community). 'i had just built a high-maintenance hobby… i hadn't produced a single original thought.'
- [i tried replacing obsidian with open-source tools, and here's why i went back](https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-replacing-obsidian-with-open-source-tools-heres-why-i-went-back/) — xda, xda (2025, reporting). the open-source alternates can't match the plugin ecosystem — back again.
- [i stopped using obsidian for quick notes, and my vault actually got useful](https://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-using-obsidian-for-quick-notes-and-vault-got-more-useful/) — xda, xda (2025, reporting). 'obsidian is more of a library than a notepad' — the electron startup cost and mobile capture friction.
- [notion, obsidian, and apple notes all lost to a plain folder of markdown files](https://www.xda-developers.com/notion-obsidian-apple-notes-lost-to-plain-folder-of-markdown-files/) — xda, mahnoor faisal (2025, community). 'it's beloved by the open-source community despite not being open-source.'
- [obsidian's sync pricing hike triggers community backlash](https://www.remio.ai/post/obsidian-s-sync-pricing-hike-triggers-community-backlash) — remio.ai, ethan carter (2026-06-23, reporting). the june 2026 sync hike — ~35% annual increase, the 1 gb tier eliminated, no grandfathering. caveat: at least one statistic reads ai-embellished; broad strokes corroborated by forum and reddit threads.
- [why i like obsidian](https://www.ddanieltan.com/posts/obsidian/) — ddanieltan.com, daniel tan (2024-01-17, community). 'the backstage manager of my life' — the love letter that ran 368 comments on hn.
- [ditching obsidian and building my own](https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms) — amberwilliams.io, amber williams (2025-05-05, community). 'i was surprised at this fee because i thought obsidian was open-source… $8 a month… almost $1,000 if i planned to use obsidian for a decade.'
- [be careful with obsidian](https://phong.bearblog.dev/be-careful-with-obsidian/) — phong.bearblog.dev, hữu phong (2025-10-23, community). closed-source, no sandbox, plugins 'reviewed only once and not re-audited on updates,' unsigned dmg.
- [notes against note-taking systems](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems) — sashachapin.substack.com, sasha chapin (2022-01-31, community). the canonical anti-pkm essay — 'getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things.' doesn't name obsidian; defined the counter-genre anyway.
- [notes against sasha chapin's notes against note-taking systems](https://www.echoesandchimes.com/p/notes-against-sasha-chapins-notes-against-note-taking-systems) — echoes & chimes, echoes and chimes (2022-02-13, community). the public rebuttal genre the chapin essay spawned.
- [a note on the cargo cult of zettelkasten](https://chrisaldrich.wordpress.com/2023/02/03/a-note-on-the-cargo-cult-of-zettelkasten/) — chrisaldrich.wordpress.com, chris aldrich (2023-02-03, community). 'a cargo cult of zettelkasten aspirants… may eventually give up, sometimes in shame.'
- [why switching from roam research to obsidian is simple, but not easy](https://martinsauter.medium.com/why-switching-from-roam-research-to-obsidian-is-simple-but-not-easy-34f571c03b06) — medium, martin sauter (2021, community). the importer rough edges — 'simple, but not easy.'
- [why i chose obsidian over roam](https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/system/cards/Why+I+chose+Obsidian+over+Roam) — fork my brain, nicole van der hoeven (2021, community). notable because the author was a roam 'believer' plan buyer and small investor — defecting publicly.
- [how to switch from roam research to obsidian](https://nesslabs.com/roam-to-obsidian) — ness labs, anne-laure le cunff (2021, community). the influential migration how-to — roam lock-in as the cautionary contrast.
- [what happened to roam research?](https://canion.blog/2023/05/22/what-happened-to.html) — canion.blog, canion.blog (2023-05-22, community). 'has obsidian entirely cut its lunch?' — the may 2023 read on roam's fade.
- [the fall of roam](https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam) — every, every / superorganizers (2023, community). 'we got a garbage dump full of crufty links… and we feel guilty and sad about it.' critical of roam, obliquely flattering to the category.
- [pkm in retrospect](https://curtismchale.ca/2023/01/22/pkm-in-retrospect-pkm-weekly-jan-22-2023-issue-053/) — pkm weekly, curtis mchale (2023-01-22, community). 'roam is out of the picture… people were always dreaming about a tool that did the work.'
- [trying logseq](https://blog.tombert.com/Posts/Technical/2025/09-September/Trying-Logseq) — blog.tombert.com, tombert (2025-09, community). 'the one complaint i have with obsidian is that it is not open source… i actually pay for the professional license to support the project.'
- [why i left logseq for obsidian after 2+ years](https://0x5.uk/2026/05/26/why-i-left-logseq-for-obsidian/) — 0x5.uk, tim abell (2026-05-26, community). the reverse-migration essay — calls obsidian 'closed-source freeware' and still switches for reliability.
- [rebooting my note-taking](https://darcynorman.net/2026/07/17/rebooting-my-note-taking/) — darcynorman.net, d'arcy norman (2026-07-17, community). 'even that had turned into something of a cargo cult… thousands of notes that i never referred to… i just deleted all of those.'
- [over-engineering the mind: the obsidian trap](https://buildfirstbrain.com/journal/over-engineering-the-mind-the-obsidian-trap/) — buildfirstbrain.com, buildfirstbrain (2025, community). 'a polished form of procrastination, productivity porn, where optimizing the system substitutes for the hard work.'
- [how i use obsidian](https://calv.info/how-i-use-obsidian) — calv.info, calvin french-owen (2024, community). the segment co-founder's widely shared workflow — 'the primary goal of the tool should be eliciting thought… 99% of the time i never re-visit my notes, and that is fine.'
- [obsidian publish feels like it's still in development and therefore should not cost $198 a year](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/obsidian-publish-feels-like-its-still-development-therefore-bob-doto) — linkedin, bob doto (2022, community). the canonical publish pricing gripe — still cited in 2026 alternatives posts.
- [i love obsidian but hate publishing from it](https://unmarkdown.com/blog/i-love-obsidian-but-hate-publishing) — unmarkdown, unmarkdown (2025, community). 'obsidian publish costs $8 to $16 per month… only outputs to the web.'
- [obsidian publish alternatives](https://unmarkdown.com/blog/obsidian-publish-alternatives) — unmarkdown, unmarkdown (2026, community). documents the launch-era $20/month pricing and the doto article.
- [an exceptional example of thoughtful pricing strategy](https://robinlandy.substack.com/p/obsidian-as-an-example-of-thoughtful) — robinlandy.substack.com, robin landy (2024, community). the pricing teardown — notes karpathy's 'love letter'; sync as presumed largest revenue source.
- [obsidian plugin abuse delivers phantompulse rat](https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/obsidian-plugin-abuse-delivers.html) — the hacker news, the hacker news (2026-04, reporting). the phantompulse rat coverage — a trust-model weaponization, not an obsidian vulnerability.
- [crypto users warned of scam on notes app obsidian](https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-users-targeted-elaborate-scam-popular-notes-app-obsidian) — cointelegraph, cointelegraph (2026-04, reporting). the crypto-angle coverage of the shared-vault social-engineering campaign.
- [phantompulse: blockchain c2 rat via obsidian plugin abuse](https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-phantompulse-rat-obsidian-20260416-csa-sty/) — csa labs, cloud security alliance (2026-04-16, reporting). the research note on blockchain-c2 rat delivery via shell commands and hider plugins.
- [obsidian disabling community plugins](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-disabling-community-plugins/104779) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2025-08-27, community). the team remotely deprecated two plugin versions over a bug-report flood — 'does this really justify interacting with a user's personal plugin config?'
- [my (largely popular) open source thread was hidden](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/my-largely-popular-open-source-thread-was-hidden-and-now-there-isnt-any-way-to-recover-it/39890) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2022-07-05, community). the open-sourcing megathread auto-hidden by community flags, then restored by staff.
- [security issue: vibe-coded plugins sent for approval into community plugins](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/security-issue-vibe-coded-plugins-sent-for-approval-into-community-plugins/102624) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2025-07-05, community). the ai-generated plugin flood versus gatekeeping — a ~300-pr review backlog cited.
- [ios & icloud slow to start](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/50827) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2023, community). 'waiting for icloud to synchronize' blocking launch for 10–30 seconds or more.
- [ios app extremely slow to load](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/ios-app-extremely-slow-to-load/67031) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2023, community). the ios load-time complaint thread.
- [obsidian ios performance hit after enabling icloud advanced data protection?](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/77712) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2024, community). icloud advanced data protection taking app load from ~5s to ~45s.
- [ios and icloud: stuck on loading workspace](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/76541) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2024, community). 'loading workspace' hangs requiring workspace-mobile.json surgery.
- [obsidian sync storage options](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-sync-storage-options/114840) — obsidian forum, obsidian forum (2026-05-31, community). the 50 gb tier's disappearance ahead of the 2026 price hike.
- [how to use obsidian sync at work (without breaking the rules)](https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-09_obsidian-syncing-at-work) — hamy.xyz, hamy (2025-09, community). sync is 'basically banned by default' at companies that haven't approved it — the corporate-approval reality.
- [obsidian: the king of learning tools (full guide + setup)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8) — youtube, odysseas (2024-04-24, community). 3.26m views — the single biggest obsidian video.
- [obsidian for beginners: start here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QgbLb6QCK88) — youtube — linking your thinking, nick milo (2020-09-15, community). 2.41m views — the foundational onboarding video; 'this wasn't a product walkthrough. this was a guided meditation.'
- [give me 15 minutes. i'll teach you 80% of obsidian](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4AbijUCoKU) — youtube — linking your thinking, nick milo (2025-09-26, community). 2.10m views — the second wind of mainstream interest post-bases.
- [the fun and efficient note-taking system i use in my phd](https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9SLlxaEEXY) — youtube, morganeua (2022-01-27, community). 1.57m views — the phd note-taking system.
- [how to take smart notes (3 methods no one's talking about)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5O46Rqh5zHE) — youtube, vicky zhao (2021, community). 1.37m views — the smart-notes methods video.
- [my simple note-taking setup | zettelkasten in obsidian](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E6ySG7xYgjY) — youtube, artem kirsanov (2022, community). 817k views — the zettelkasten-in-obsidian setup.
- [my obsidian setup: the king of note taking apps](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xR5-0XDkwU0) — youtube, christopher lawley (2024-08-29, community). 809k views — 'the king of note taking apps.'
- [10 must-have obsidian plugins](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W7kTtn9empU) — youtube, nicole van der hoeven (2022, community). 741k views — the must-have plugins canon.
- [why i left notion for obsidian](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DXHVawhh4c) — youtube, rachel v madrigal (2022-01-31, community). 675k views — the 'influencer switch' genre at scale.
- [i tried obsidian note taking for a week](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDhTpPIjsDg) — youtube, john mavrick (2021, community). 531k views — the week-long trial genre.
- [how the ceo of obsidian takes his notes (underrated genius)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4) — youtube, karlos obsidian tutorials (2025-12, community). 526k views — the kepano-vault essay reaching video scale.
- [why i switched to using obsidian (as a former notion user)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O7vGsBghWfc) — youtube, reysu (2025-11, community). 445k views — the former-notion-user switch genre, still running.
- [i ditched obsidian for this note app and i'm never going back!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ymo_29vh9mY) — youtube, shu omi (2024-10-18, community). 603k views — 'i found myself spending so much time constantly tweaking my setup and installing hundreds of plugins that i didn't work on what i really needed to do.'
- [why are people leaving obsidian for this note app? | capacities review](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wLCENxoCh6g) — youtube, shu omi (2023-09-08, community). 446k views — the video that framed the capacities exodus narrative.
- [stop procrastinating with note-taking apps like obsidian, roam, logseq](https://youtube.com/watch?v=baKCC2uTbRc) — youtube, sam matla (2023, community). 533k views — the video-form 'productivity porn' critique.
- [the perfect note-taking app](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpcVQeF07G4) — youtube, ali abdaal (2020-08-23, community). 797k views — the pre-fandom era taxonomy; abdaal later publicly preferred apple notes.
- [how i organized my life using only apple notes](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IMJSkU3rVNg) — youtube, zach highley (2025, community). 681k views — the apple notes counter-current.
- [how i use obsidian + claude code to run my life](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6MBq1paspVU) — youtube, greg isenberg (2026-03, community). 455k views — the ai-era vault usage video.
- [claude just killed the note-taking app. here is proof.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=geIKyDaXwGg) — youtube, icor with tom (2026-04, community). 473k views — the 'ai kills pkm' genre.
- [open source alternatives to the most popular productivity apps](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P8accXNcwjs) — youtube, the linux experiment (2024, community). 1.75m views — obsidian listed among apps needing oss alternatives.
- [could it be time to switch? (evernote → obsidian, with nick milo)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tiagoforte_ive-been-using-evernote-as-my-second-brain-activity-7156287208260345857-KFRR) — linkedin, tiago forte (2024-01-25, community). the basb creator testing obsidian with the lyt founder — 'an amazing community that ships plugins faster than startups backed by vcs.'
- [r/obsidianmd stats 2026](https://www.reddtrends.com/r/obsidianmd) — reddtrends, reddtrends (2026, reporting). ~357.7k members mid-2026 — trackers disagree; treat as a range.
- [r/obsidianmd subreddit stats](https://gummysearch.com/r/ObsidianMD/) — gummysearch, gummysearch (2026, reporting). ~360k members — the upper end of the range.
- [many users use reddit possibly because they are unaware…](https://old.feddit.dk/post/12445127) — feddit.dk, lemmy (2024, community). the subreddit carries an official notice steering users to the forum.
- [obsidian october 2024](https://obsidian.md/blog/2024-obsidian-october/) — obsidian, obsidian (2024-10-01, primary). the 2024 edition pivoted to plugin quality and performance — 'help your users experience <1 second load times'; ~2,000 plugins by then.
- [obsidian roundup, october 2 2021](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/2021-10-02/) — obsidian roundup, eleanor konik (2021-10-02, community). the obsidian roundup newsletter — community scaffolding next to o_o and gems of the year.
- [bending spoons acquisition cold email to obsidian](https://bsky.app/profile/stephango.com/post/3ldjptsylf224) — bluesky, steph ango (2024-12-19, community). the publicized cold acquisition email — resonated as proof-of-independence amid evernote's bending spoons-era decline.
- [dendron development stopped?](https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/discussions/3890) — github, dendron (2023-02, community). 'we were ultimately not able to find product market fit for a venture backed business' — the cautionary tale invoked in every obsidian business-model debate.
- [karpathy's obsidian endorsement thread](https://x.com/karpathy) — x, andrej karpathy (2024-02-24, community). 'the file is the source of truth, not the application' — the february 2024 endorsement of the philosophy over the note-taking.
- [llm knowledge bases](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595) — x, andrej karpathy (2026-04-02, community). 1.2m+ views — obsidian cast as the ide/frontend for an llm-compiled markdown wiki, web clipper for ingest.
- [karpathy's llm knowledge base workflow explained](https://analyticsdrift.com/karpathy-llm-knowledge-base-vibe-coding-workflow/) — analytics drift, analytics drift (2026-04, reporting). the secondary write-up carrying the 1.2m+ view count.
- [the personal second brain](https://noferi.it/en/blog/second-brain/) — noferi.it, stefano noferi (2025, community). collects the critique canon — tietze, chapin, newton, matuschak — plus the license and bases dates.
- [single-purpose notebooks](https://podscripts.co/podcasts/deep-questions-with-cal-newport/ep-292-single-purpose-notebooks) — deep questions (podscripts transcript), cal newport (2023, community). the deep questions skepticism — second brain as fine for unstructured hoarding, 'not my best brain.'
- [obsidian is now completely free to use — even for businesses](https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/obsidian-is-now-completely-free-to-use-even-for-businesses-62db839d2695) — medium, michael swengel (2025-02, community). the medium explainer on the free-for-work change.
- [obsidian bases: transforming notes into dynamic data](https://algustionesa.com/obsidian-bases-transforming-notes-into-dynamic-data/) — algustionesa.com, algustionesa (2025-08, community). the scope-creep and vision-drift framing of the bases launch.
- [pkm weekly 2024-10-06](https://www.pkmweekly.com/p/pkm-weekly-2024-10-06) — pkm weekly, pkm weekly (2024-10-06, community). the newsletter record of the 2024 o_o plugin-quality framing.

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