Obsidian

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits. Why make this change? Simplicity. The Commercial license terms were confusing and added unnecessary complexity to our pricing. Furthermore, as the Obsidian Manifesto states: "we believe that everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively". This change brings us closer to that principle. People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian. Many work in high-security environments, like government, cybersecurity, and finance. Some of the largest organizations in the world, including Amazon and Google, have thousands of employees using Obsidian every day. These teams rely on Obsidian to think more effectively and keep total ownership over private data. Previously, people at companies with two or more employees were required to purchase a Commercial license to use Obsidian for work. Going forward, the Commercial license is no longer required, but remains an optional way for organizations to support Obsidian, similar to the Catalyst license for individuals. Organizations that support Obsidian are now featured on the Obsidian Enterprise page. Your organization can be showcased by purchasing 25 licenses or more. Along with Commercial and Catalyst support, our add-on services, Sync and Publish help Obsidian remain 100% user-supported. In the future, we hope to offer more services designed for teams. As always, these will be optional.

Obsidian 1.8 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! Adds Web viewer, a new core plugin lets you open external links within Obsidian on desktop. This makes it easier to read linked content without leaving the app and improves multitasking for web research. The plugin can be enabled manually in settings. A few notable improvements: - Improved iCloud sync. Obsidian no longer waits to confirm that configuration files have synced. - New mobile onboarding. This guided flow helps new mobile users create and sync a vault. - New "Download attachments for current file" command. Downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds. - When modifying a numbered list, the numbers are now updated automatically. - Pressing Enter in a multi-line list item now continues the list properly. - New "Insert footnote" command. Footnote autocomplete now provides a fallback to create a new footnote if no match is found. - Tags view now includes search. - File Explorer now includes an option to automatically reveal the active file. - Outline now has an "Auto-scroll to current section" option. - Sync now has a new view option, "Hide my changes," which hides your own file changes in a shared Obsidian sync vault. - Recently used commands now appear at the top of the command palette. - "Search current file" search bar now displays the total number of results. - "Insert template" command now sorts templates by file path and displays folder names. - <img>, <video>, <source> and <audio> tags with relative src paths are now rendered in Live Preview and Reading mode. - Graph view no longer considers Canvas files as attachments. See the changelog for dozens more improvements and bug fixes.

Obsidian 1.8.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. https://lnkd.in/gSSwWzj6

Obsidian 1.8.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Contains lots of small improvements, including: – Numbered lists now automatically update when modified - Searching within a file shows the number of results - Added "Insert footnote" command - Added search to the Tags view

2024 Obsidian Gems of the Year results are in! Explore the 33 winning projects across seven categories: – Best new plugins – Best new themes – Best existing plugins – Best tools – Best content – Best templates – Best integrations https://lnkd.in/gCgavGcz

Voting has started for the fifth Gems of the Year awards! Can you believe it's been five years? This year's categories: 1. Best content 2. Best template 3. Best tool 4. Best existing plugin 5. Best LLM integration 6. Best third-party integration 7. Best new theme 8. Best new plugin Join us on the official Obsidian Discord to vote.

Obsidian 1.8.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. It includes several new commands and improvements for the Web Viewer plugin, along with a brand new onboarding flow for the mobile app.

Gems of the year nominations are open! Share your favorite Obsidian projects of 2024 by January 11th https://lnkd.in/gjnijife

Obsidian has completed a second independent audit by the security firm Cure53. The report finds that incremental updates since Obsidian 1.5.3 maintained the highest degree of attention to security, and that no new vulnerabilities were introduced. https://lnkd.in/gkeD_7wm Particular emphasis was placed on hardening the Web viewer plugin during its development process, to ensure it would pass our strict security standards. We're proud to report that the Cure53 team reviewed the resolutions and concluded that their recommendations have been properly followed. We make Obsidian so we can capture our own private thoughts and ideas. Independent audits help us ensure that our code and procedures meet the highest security standards. We will continue working with industry-leading security firms to provide comprehensive coverage and transparency towards this commitment.

Obsidian 1.8 (early access) with the new Web Viewer plugin makes editing websites more fluid than ever.