Benefits of Obsidian
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management app that focuses on local, plain-text files and interconnected ideas. Unlike many other tools, it prioritizes longevity, privacy, and linking your notes together.
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Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management app that focuses on local, plain-text files and interconnected ideas. Unlike many other tools, it prioritizes longevity, privacy, and linking your notes together.
Tools
The complete guide to the official Obsidian CLI. What it is, how to enable it on macOS, Windows, and Linux, all supported commands, the TUI, eval and the JavaScript API, the different ways to reach your vault from the terminal, and how AI agents drive it.
Last time, version 1.7.0 of the Kanban Action Planner brought WBS mode, automation rules, and embedded boards. 1.8.0 is smaller and about one idea I've wanted in there for a while: contexts.
Tools
Templates are how every Obsidian note is created with the right properties and structure already in place. The complete guide to templates and Templater: core vs community plugin, the interpolation vs execution model, choices, dynamic dates, auto-filing, JavaScript, and where AI fits in.
#pillar-tools-and-systems
Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
Two weeks ago, version 1.1.0 of the Kanban Action Planner shipped timeline mode. I haven't slowed down since. Versions 1.2.0 through 1.7.0 add a WBS mode, automation rules, embedded boards, a real estimates system, and a performance pass that touched almost every interaction. Here's what's new.
Riddle turns a reMarkable Paper Pro into Tom Riddle's diary. You write with the pen, pause for a few seconds, and the answer appears on the page as flowing handwriting. No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat window. Built by Maxime Rivest, MIT licensed, around 1.6k stars on GitHub.
Obsidian has great support for keyboard shortcuts. Most commands can be invoked using shortcuts, and most of those can be customized.
A curated, cross-linked collection of concepts — designed to learn from first principles. Built from concept cards and published as a website.
OpenMontage is an open source (AGPLv3) agentic video production system. You describe the video you want in plain language, and an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf) handles the whole chain: research, scripting, asset generation, editing, and composition. No manual editing w
Zencastr is an all-in-one remote recording platform for podcasters, video creators, and interviewers. Founded in 2016, endorsed by people like Seth Godin and Sam Harris. The pitch: spend less time juggling tools, more time making content.
AgentBox is Rui Carmo's Docker-based sandbox for running coding agents in isolation. The README is refreshingly honest about the state of the art: "There's no perfect way to sandbox agents (yet), but containers are a practical start." MIT licensed, ~141 stars, mostly Dockerfile and Makefile.
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