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Obsidian October 2025

1 Oct 2025

Obsidian October 2025

1 Oct 2025

Obsidian October is back! Every October, the community comes together to hack on plugins, themes, vaults, videos, and other projects. We'll host office hours on Discord

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

19 Sep 2025

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

19 Sep 2025

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

Obsidian is now free for work

20 Feb 2025

Obsidian is now free for work

20 Feb 2025

People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. If Obsidian benefits your

2024 Gems of the year winners

21 Jan 2025

2024 Gems of the year winners

21 Jan 2025

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

2024 Gems of the year nominations

2 Jan 2025

2024 Gems of the year nominations

2 Jan 2025

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

Second audit of Obsidian apps completed by Cure53

23 Dec 2024

Second audit of Obsidian apps completed by Cure53

23 Dec 2024

Early this year we shared our new Security page (/security) and first independent audit (/blog/cure53-security-audit/) of Obsidian, coinciding with the release of Obsidian 1.5.3. Since then we've

Obsidian Softwear: new Fractal t-shirts and hoodies

21 Nov 2024

Obsidian Softwear: new Fractal t-shirts and hoodies

21 Nov 2024

A new design called "Fractal" is now available (https://obsidian.md/softwear) on the Softwear (https://obsidian.md/softwear) merch store. You can get this design on t-shirts and hoodies, silkscreened

Save the web

11 Nov 2024

Save the web

11 Nov 2024

Today, we're introducing Obsidian Web Clipper (https://obsidian.md/clipper) a new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. Anything you save is stored as

Obsidian October 2024

1 Oct 2024

Obsidian October 2024

1 Oct 2024

October is here, which means only one thing: Obsidian October aka O_O is here! And this year we're making O_O all about speed. Every year O_O has introduced developers to the world of making

Obsidian Sync now starts at $4 per month with the new Standard plan

20 Mar 2024

Obsidian Sync now starts at $4 per month with the new Standard plan

20 Mar 2024

Today we are making Obsidian Sync (https://obsidian.md/sync) more accessible with the new Standard plan which starts at $4 per month billed annually, or $5 per month billed monthly. Obsidian Sync is

Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data

11 Mar 2024

Today we're excited to announce that the Obsidian Canvas (https://obsidian.md/canvas) file format is now called JSON Canvas (https://jsoncanvas.org/) and has its own site, specification, and open

2023 Gems of the year winners

24 Jan 2024

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!

New security page and independent audit completed by Cure53

10 Jan 2024

Obsidian is designed to be a private and secure space for your thoughts. Since the start, Obsidian has been built to give you full control over your data, without the requirement to sign up for an

2023 Gems of the year nominations

22 Dec 2023

(Update) See 2023 Gems of the Year (https://obsidian.md/blog/2023-goty-winners/) for the final results! The year is almost over and that means it's time to nominate your favorite projects from the

New Obsidian Sync plans: bigger, better, faster, smoother

21 Nov 2023

Obsidian Sync (https://obsidian.md/sync) makes it easy to securely sync your Obsidian data across all major mobile and desktop platforms with end-to-end encryption, version history, and granular

Goodbye legacy editor

2 Nov 2023

In the upcoming Obsidian v1.5, the legacy editor will be removed from the app. For plugin developers, this means we will be completely removing CodeMirror 5 and you will be able to assume users on

Obsidian Importer now converts Apple Notes to portable, durable files

19 Oct 2023

Obsidian Importer (https://obsidian.md/help/import) allows you to convert your data from a variety of proprietary formats to portable, durable files. These files work with any Markdown app, so you

Obsidian October 2023

26 Sep 2023

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,

Free your notes

12 Jul 2023

Apps come and go, but the files you create should last. Today, we are excited to share a new official, open source (https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-importer) plugin for Obsidian called

How to verify Obsidian Sync's end-to-end encryption

5 Jun 2023

On our About page (https://obsidian.md), we describe the guiding principles that have shaped Obsidian since the start. Privacy is one of these principles, and we go to great lengths to make sure we

The new Obsidian icon

1 Jun 2023

Since we started three years ago, we've built Obsidian on core principles (https://obsidian.md/about) that continue to motivate everything we do. We've been encouraged to see that these principles

New developer documentation site

27 Apr 2023

Are you building a plugin or theme for Obsidian? Today we're launching our new Developer Documentation: docs.obsidian.md (https://docs.obsidian.md) Learn how to get started and how to polish an

Obsidian Publish now offers more for less: a lower price, with new features, improved SEO and accessibility

18 Apr 2023

We're excited to announce changes that make Obsidian Publish (https://obsidian.md/publish) even better for hosting your wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden. What's new? • 50%

2022 Gems of the year winners

21 Feb 2023

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

I’m joining Obsidian full-time as CEO

6 Feb 2023

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

New Code of Conduct for our community

23 Jan 2023

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

2022 Gems of the year nominations

30 Dec 2022

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

Obsidian October 2022 winners

7 Dec 2022

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

Obsidian October 2022 "Back to School": make plugins, content, and learn together

23 Sep 2022

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

1.0 Theme migration guide

29 Aug 2022

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

How to update your plugin to support pop-out windows

12 Jul 2022

With the desktop release of Obsidian v0.15 (/changelog/2022-06-14-desktop-v0.15.0/), we're introducing a new way of putting panes into pop-out windows. For most plugins adding simple DOM based plugin

Plugin developers: CodeMirror 6 migration guide for v6.0

14 Jun 2022

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

2021 Gems of the year winners

25 Jan 2022

The results of Gems of the Year 2021 are out! See the results (https://obsidian.md/goty2021)

Live Preview update

15 Dec 2021

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

2021 Gems of the year nominations

8 Dec 2021

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

Obsidian October 2021 winners

1 Dec 2021

If you’re following Obsidian October 2021, the results are in and the prizes are on their way! See the results (https://obsidian.md/october2021) Congrats to Primary, Sanctum, Prism, Bubble Space

Obsidian October 2021: make plugins and themes together and win awards!

21 Sep 2021

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

Last chance to get early bird discount for Sync and Publish

1 Jul 2021

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

2020 Gems of the year winners

9 Jan 2021

Best of 2020 Award results are out! Congrats everyone! 🎉 (Link to vote count results (https://forum.obsidian.md/t/best-of-2020-voting-thread-theme-plugin-graph-story/10105)) We’ll be contacting

2020 Gems of the year nominations

1 Dec 2020

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