Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
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Obsidian's official homepage describes it as a free, flexible, local-first note-taking app that stores notes privately as plain Markdown files on-device, so users are never locked into a proprietary format. It highlights core features — bidirectional links between notes, a visual graph view for finding patterns, and Canvas, an infinite space for research and brainstorming — positioning Obsidian as a personal-knowledge-base and 'second brain' tool built around thousands of community plugins and themes.
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