Note-taking Rising
Capacities
Object-based notes for linked personal knowledge
Key features
- Cross-device sync
- Notebooks, folders and tags
- Search inside content
- Offline access
- Shared notes
Obsidian stores notes as plain-text Markdown files on your device and links them with backlinks and a graph view. Community plugins extend it, and the optional paid Sync add-on provides end-to-end encrypted sync with version history.
Key Note-taking features
- Cross-device sync
- Notebooks, folders and tags (not listed)
- Search inside content (not listed)
- Web clipper (not listed)
- Offline access
- Shared notes (not listed)
Also includes
- Markdown support
- Backlinks and graph
- End-to-end encryption
- Local file storage
- Note version history
- Plugin ecosystem
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Key features
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Key features
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