Obsidian Blog

Obsidian regularly performs security audits with independent research firms to ensure that our code and procedures meet the highest security standards.

Today we're excited to launch Obsidian Community, the new directory and developer dashboard for Obsidian plugins and themes.

Obsidian October is back!

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps.

People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards!

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!

Early this year we shared our new Security page and first independent audit of Obsidian, coinciding with the release of Obsidian 1.5.3.

A new design called "Fractal" is now available on the Softwear merch store.

Today, we're introducing Obsidian Web Clipper a new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser.

October is here, which means only one thing: Obsidian October aka O_O is here!

Today we are making Obsidian Sync more accessible with the new Standard plan which starts at $4 per month billed annually, or $5 per month billed monthly.

Today we're excited to announce that the Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources at jsoncanvas.org.

It has been nearly four years since the first line of code of Obsidian was written on January 31st, 2020.

Obsidian is designed to be a private and secure space for your thoughts.

(Update) See 2023 Gems of the Year for the final results!

Obsidian 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 settings per device.

In the upcoming Obsidian v1.5, the legacy editor will be removed from the app.

Obsidian Importer allows you to convert your data from a variety of proprietary formats to portable, durable files.

Welcome back to Obsidian October!

Apps come and go, but the files you create should last.

On our About page, we describe the guiding principles that have shaped Obsidian since the start.

Since we started three years ago, we've built Obsidian on core principles that continue to motivate everything we do.

Are you building a plugin or theme for Obsidian?

We're excited to announce changes that make Obsidian Publish even better for hosting your wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.

Results for our 3rd Gems of the Year awards are out!

A bit of exciting news.

Hi everyone!

We’re almost at the end of 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.

It’s almost October again, which means it’s time for our second Obsidian October event!

Overview Obsidian 1.0 introduces a new default theme, a new theme versioning system, and several important new features.

With the desktop release of Obsidian v0.15, we're introducing a new way of putting panes into pop-out windows.

CodeMirror 6.0 is finally stable.

The results of Gems of the Year 2021 are out!

Obsidian 0.13 introduces a brand new editor engine that comes with several enhancements to your editing experience.

Hey, it's that time of the year again!

If you’re following Obsidian October 2021, the results are in and the prizes are on their way!

Been thinking about making a plugin or theme but never had the opportunity to do it?

This is a heads-up that early bird discount for both Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish will end on September 30, 2021.

Best of 2020 Award results are out!

Hi everyone!