Obsidian

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I'm a big fan of Obsidian because it's very intuitive and customisable”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-19

• “I've found it lacking, especially with kinda buggy interaction with the vim keybindings. Obsidian's data model, a huge selling point to some, really hinders it too.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-13

• “I was barely able to setup something remotely close with Obsidian”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-13

• “especially Obsidian) is awesome, because it's super easy to tie in AI into mark down text”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “the moment you tell the model that it's in an Obsidian Vault - magic happens”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “I looked at the plugins again in Obsidian and found Claudian, which lets me bring my local models and Codex in the right pane. This is perfect”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “trying very hard to migrate away from git+Obsidian project setup”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I just open the Obsidian folder (aka "vault") in VS Code and BOOM, it is AI friendly”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I don't understand how Obsidian, a collection of markdown files, isn't already AI friendly. It's hard for me to imagine a more AI-friendly but still usable way to organize your notes.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I have a documentation vault in my repo, organised using Obsidian (bases, wikilinks, frontmatter, etc)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-21

• “Now obsidian works for me like I want, and still every day I use it Im still in awe”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Each summary hits Obsidian with YAML frontmatter and live Dataview queries, so open action items and meeting metadata behave like a database rather than static notes”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “An extensive MCP for Obsidian that gives agents access to use a lot of the more advanced Obsidian functionality, such as suggesting and installing plugins / configs / etc.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “i used Obsidian but it was not very good with hosted tools like claude.ai”

  NEGATIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “I like Obsidian for note taking and it does have an infinite canvas”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “i have since built that workflow into obsidian through a bunch of templates and plugins”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “I am converting a CRM to obsidian and Rewriting some Obsidian plug-ins to do what I want them to do”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-22

• “pretty seamlessly moved from VS Code as my notes app to obsidian and could move back to a text editor if obsidian turns evil”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “i love Obsidian's WYSIWYG markdown experience so i wanted to bake that into this as well”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-19

• “obsidian is a bit of a muscle memory now. I have tried to replace it many times with no success.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “the markdown-oxide LSP replicates the core of obsidian better than obsidian does”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “as transparent and liberal with critical first-party services as Obsidian is”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “the daily notes in Obsidian are not easily viewed across days”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “I'll use obsidian until I can one shot its replacement with a local llm coding agent”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “Obsidian does not support those, not even through extensions”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18