Obsidian 1.11.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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The future is plain text files — it's just not evenly distributed

if you're using Obsidian with Claude Code, tell me about your workflow, and what you've used it for

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Obsidian plugins reached 100 million total downloads! 2026 will be a big year for Obsidian plugins. The plan is to make plugins easier to discover, safer to use, simpler to build, and faster to approve.

What do I mean when I say everything in Obsidian should feel instantaneous? No more than 0.1 seconds. The target was established in 1968 by Robert Miller and well described in 1993 by Jakob Nielsen here:

Performance is design, and every millisecond counts. Every update in 2025 trimmed Obsidian's load speed. This is quite complex given the number of different configurations and operating systems Obsidian supports. We employed many different solutions to speed up Obsidian across various syncing methods, operating syste... Show more

Obsidian 1.11.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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what's one improvement you'd like to see in Obsidian in 2026?

Obsidian 1.11.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

Anything more complicated than this is procrastination