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Obsidian Sync now offers larger vaults, bigger files, regional servers, faster sync, and more flexible storage. New plans are launching in January, and you can join Sync now for a special holiday promotion.

In the upcoming Obsidian v1.5, the legacy editor will be removed from the app.

Obsidian Importer now helps you easily convert your Apple Notes data to portable files that you can use with any Markdown app. Supports tables, images, drawings, scans, PDFs, and links introduced in iOS 17.

Welcome back to Obsidian October! For our third year, we're here to help you complete the community projects that you've been meaning to work on. Whether it's a plugin, theme, tool, or template, this is the month to get it...

Our new open source Obsidian plugin, Importer, makes it easy to convert your notes from Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, and other apps, to durable Markdown files that you own and can use with any app that supports plain text files.

How can you be sure that your data is end-to-end encrypted? In this guide, we provide step-by-step instructions to trustlessly verify the end-to-end encryption of your data using Obsidian Sync.

Say hello to our new logo and app icon. This is the story behind our new branding, which we designed to reflect the principles Obsidian is built on.

Are you building a plugin or theme for Obsidian? Today we're launching our new Developer Documentation site.

Obsidian Publish now has a 50% lower price and new capabilities that make it ideal for hosting your wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.

Results for our 3rd Gems of the Year awards are out! We received an overwhelming number of great nominations. For the competitive categories, we let the community vote for their favorites among the most nominated submissions. 🎉 Thank you to...

A bit of exciting news. I’m joining Obsidian full-time as CEO! I have been using Obsidian and developing for it since Silver and Licat first launched in 2020. I can’t overstate how life-changing Obsidian has been for me. It has...

Hi everyone! Our community is almost 3 years old! 🥳 After basically only having two simple rules (“be nice” and “don’t spam”) for so long, today we’re rolling out our official community code of conduct. If you see behaviors described...

We’re almost at the end of 2022! Time to nominate your favorite projects and people this year in the Obsidian community for the Gems of the Year prizes! To nominate go here: Gems of the Year 2022 Nomination Nominations are...

Our second Obsidian October has come to a close, and once again we were overwhelmed with all the amazing content, plugins, and themes that the Obsidian community created. We received 84 entries, judged by our panel that included joethei, liam,...

It’s almost October again, which means it’s time for our second Obsidian October event! This year the theme is “Back to School”, for actual students and also students of life. Participate to win cool prizes in any of the categories...

Overview Obsidian 1.0 introduces a new default theme, a new theme versioning system, and several important new features. We expect that most themes and plugins will need some tweaks. Migrating your theme to the new versioning system How to design...

With the desktop release of Obsidian v0.15, we're introducing a new way of putting panes into pop-out windows. For most plugins adding simple DOM based plugin views, this should work out-of-the-box. However, there are some things that work differently when...

CodeMirror 6.0 is finally stable. That means Obsidian will be migrating from CM6 v0.19 to v6.0 soon. In this post I will attempt to summarize everything you need to know about this upcoming migration with breaking changes. When you upgrade...

The results of Gems of the Year 2021 are out! See the results

Obsidian 0.13 introduces a brand new editor engine that comes with several enhancements to your editing experience. In this post, we'll take a closer look at one of the biggest improvements in the latest release: Live Preview. Live Preview is...