kepano

give me one TINY thing you want fixed or improved in #Obsidian — the smaller the better, I'm going on a paper cuts rampage

Obsidian plugins reached 100 million total downloads! 2026 will be a big year for #Obsidian plugins. The plan is to make plugins easier to discover, safer to use, simpler to build, and faster to approve.

Performance is design, and every millisecond counts. Every update in 2025 trimmed Obsidian's load speed. This is quite complex given the number of different configurations and operating systems Obsidian supports. We employed many different solutions to speed up Obsidian across various syncing methods, operating systems, plugins, vault sizes, etc. Getting into Obsidian should be instantaneous regardless of vault size. It's absolutely necessary so that ideas can flow without friction.

what's one improvement you'd like to see in #obsidian in 2026?

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead. The perils of trusting an LLM with your customer support.

Use the saw, fear the saw

Steph Ango

Use the saw, fear the saw

It’s hard to make a saw that cuts trees but not arms.

Today in ransomware, Slack increases pricing by $195k with a week's notice for a non-profit that teaches teenagers how to code.

mas.to

Obsidian (@obsidian@mas.to)

The latest episode of Decoder features a deep dive about Obsidian with @kepano@mastodon.social and why we're not rushing to add sparkly AI buttons ...

If you're looking for a #Pocket replacement, give #Obsidian Web Clipper a try — it's open source (MIT) and works with any app that supports Markdown, not just Obsidian

Obsidian

Obsidian Web Clipper

Highlight and capture web pages in your favorite browser. Save anything and everything with just one click.

currently #Obsidian 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?