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Every October, the Obsidian community comes together to hack on plugins, themes, vaults, and other projects. Polish your creations, ship updates, or kick off a new project you've been eager to build!

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.

Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on the entries, we’re now excited to announce the winners. Thank you to...

2024 is over and that means it's time to nominate your favorite projects from the Obsidian community for our Gems of the Year awards! To nominate projects go here: Gems of the Year 2024 Nomination Nominations are due by January...

A second audit of Obsidian apps finds that incremental updates since Obsidian 1.5.3 maintained the highest degree of attention to security, and that no new vulnerabilities were found.

Fractal is the latest Softwear update. Our new tees and hoodies are silkscreened using high-opacity colors, with a design by VFX artist and Obsidian user, Shaun Yue.

Highlight and capture web pages in your favorite browser with the new Obsidian Web Clipper extension.

This year Obsidian October is all about speed. Learn how you can adopt the latest APIs and get feedback from our team.

Obsidian Sync is our approach to making the most intuitive and secure sync option. With the new Standard plan, we're excited to make Sync accessible to even more people.

The Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

It has been nearly four years since the first line of code of Obsidian was written on January 31st, 2020. Today we're thrilled to announce the winners of our fourth annual Gems of the Year awards! This year the Obsidian...

Independent audits help us ensure that our code and procedures meet the highest security standards. Our new Security page hosts audits completed by third parties, including our first report by Cure53 covering Obsidian apps.

(Update) See 2023 Gems of the Year for the final results! The year is almost over and that means it's time to nominate your favorite projects from the Obsidian community for our Gems of the Year awards! To nominate projects...

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.