I have been working on Obsidian Reader for over a year. I didn't want to share it until I felt it was good enough. It's finally there. Consistent formatting for any article. Outline, syntax highlighting, nice footnotes, adjustable typography. Runs locally. Just rules, no AI.

If you are using MCP to access your data, you are trusting that third party with unencrypted access to your data. Third-party MCPs are not an option if you value privacy. End-to-end encryption makes MCP effectively useless.

Defuddle now returns Youtube transcripts! Paste a YouTube link into defuddle·md to get a markdown transcript with timestamps, chapters, and pretty good diarization ...or if you just want to read it, try the new Reader mode in /obsidian Web Clipper powered by Defuddle

what do you use Obsidian Bases for in your vault?

Obsidian 1.12.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with a few fixes for Obsidian CLI and copy/pasting across apps.

Defuddle now has a website! This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format. You can simply add defuddle .md before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app. Try the open beta:

Obsidian 1.12 is now available to everyone! - Obsidian CLI - Bases search - Image resizing - Automatically clean up unused images - Better copy/paste into rich text apps like Google Docs - Native iOS share sheet

Obsidian 1.12.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Obsidian 1.12.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. - New share sheet on iOS! - Copy/pasting from Obsidian to other apps now preserves formatting - CLI commands default to silent operation and don't expect an active file by default. - Plugins can now register CLI commands - Adde... Show more

taste is a study of nuance, it requires slowing down

Obsidian Web Clipper 1.0 is now available, and adds logic to templates! This gives you powerful new tools to convert web pages to Markdown. - if/else - fallback values for variables - for loops Also adds a context menu to copy Markdown to clipboard, and automatic syntax validation for templates.

It's not because your agent can do something with 12 tool calls and 20k tokens that it should. For example, Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links. Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.