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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...

Hey, it's that time of the year again! 🎉 This year, we're calling our end-of-year award "Gems of the Year". (Yes, it's coincidentally also abbreviated "GotY" for you gamers out there 😆 ) This year, we're looking for great plugins,...

If you’re following Obsidian October 2021, the results are in and the prizes are on their way! See the results Congrats to Primary, Sanctum, Prism, Bubble Space (themes), and CodeMirror Options, Fantasy Calendar, Graph Analysis, Vale (plugins)! See you next...

Been thinking about making a plugin or theme but never had the opportunity to do it? October is the time! Obsidian October is an official event to help you get started with making your very own plugins and themes, starting...

This is a heads-up that early bird discount for both Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish will end on September 30, 2021. We waited a bit to end the early bird discount in order to accommodate back-to-school season, so if Obsidian...

Best of 2020 Award results are out! Congrats everyone! 🎉 (Link to vote count results) We’ll be contacting everyone shortly to send our little prizes out. See you at the Best of 2021 Award! Themes Best theme: Minimal by @kepano...

Hi everyone! We’ve had a complicated relationship with 2020, and now it’s almost time to say goodbye. Reflecting on the year, many awesome themes and plugins were developed, and memorable stories and stunning graphs were shared. To celebrate all these...