# Steph Ango — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Steph Ango
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Steph Ango (kepano): CEO of Obsidian, previously co-founder of Lumi and Inkodye, designer and essayist — built from his stephango.com essays ('File over app', 'Style is consistent constraint', 'Quality software deserves your hard-earned cash', '40 questions to ask yourself every year'), his Obsidian writing, the Flexoki and Minimal theme projects, his long-form podcast interviews (Decoder, Dialectic, Metamuse, Linking Your Thinking, The Other Stuff), and the X/Twitter archive @kepano that is his primary daily output, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
- Page: https://researcher.now/e/steph-ango
- JSON: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/steph-ango?include=all
- Sources: 13249
- About report version: v4

## About

Steph Ango’s work is unified by a practical fight against entropy: notes decay into forgotten fragments, software decays into lock-in and abandoned services, organizations decay into bureaucracy, interfaces decay into slowness and clutter, and culture decays when people outsource understanding. His answer is not nostalgia or minimalism for its own sake, but a stack of durable mechanisms—plain files, chosen constraints, direct user funding, small teams, periodic pruning, malleable tools, local-first privacy, and craft practices that make ideas easier to revisit, recombine, and preserve. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, b52e9f7e-8e2c-451f-97eb-3a8e408887f8, 5fe2af4f-93e8-4e9e-82e6-9a0ba722c9d6, 03caf53e-320c-42a1-8727-e55251df1fb5]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Durable digital artifacts over transient tools** — Ango repeatedly returns to the claim that apps will become obsolete, while plain text, Markdown, JSON, HTML, CSV, Canvas, and other open files can remain readable, movable, and editable across many tools. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550]
- **Thinking systems as gardens, soups, and workshops** — His personal Obsidian practice treats notes as a bottom-up “soup” of travel, woodworking, literature, tools, journals, references, and evergreen ideas where unexpected cross-domain links create insight. [9519736e-7168-4480-93cd-8397b62327f8, 7330abdb-cbc9-4c89-bf49-15b852375e8c]
- **Craft across media** — He moves fluidly between software, writing, color systems, furniture, woodworking, photography, recipes, music-learning tools, manufacturing, packaging, and UI design, often using one medium to clarify principles in another. [31f7316f-952c-4b42-a302-3ed040799c7e, 666e165a-5798-445e-845e-49ebc748463e]
- **Analog comfort inside digital systems** — Flexoki, Minimal, his fascination with digital paper, and his writing/publishing stack show a persistent desire to make screens feel more like paper, ink, tools, and calm material environments rather than glowing software surfaces. [b93769ae-e892-409d-a9ea-72908285a2bf, 5886f0d4-ca32-45f1-afe7-aad6e1c174aa, ee7cbe75-5b52-494b-96c4-42b52ef26f2e]
- **Independent software as cultural infrastructure** — He frames quality software as something people should pay for because “free” industrial software is often subsidized by advertising, hardware lock-in, enterprise capture, surveillance, or venture capital pressure. [76b76304-199f-49a1-8392-dd5f43e08c38]
- **Malleability and cognitive pluralism** — Obsidian’s extensibility, themes, plugins, Markdown files, and non-dogmatic organization practices embody his view that people think differently and tools should adapt to those differences rather than impose a single workflow. [2ea34e25-22ec-4ff1-996f-15d0d8d0e5f4, 67fa7c74-5848-4edd-8bd2-6d236655b71a]
- **Pruning, speed, and invisible maintenance** — He treats performance improvements, dependency reduction, removal of cruft, faster mobile launch, and “paper cut” fixes as real design work, even when they are less visible than new features. [56fc3adf-e5bd-4e41-88e0-29f1dd69d993, f34a7f8b-155a-437a-a413-e0abf25cf646, a88ca0e5-a413-4d42-bf03-013b9d64a3d3]
- **Web reading as an adversarial problem** — Defuddle, Web Clipper, Reader, and static-site preferences reveal an interest in stripping away ads, popups, walled gardens, non-semantic HTML, and platform dependencies so ideas can be read, saved, and reused as files. [a2b4156f-8931-407a-8964-5a3138b0d41f, 587ea3e1-2445-47e4-b1a5-337b513df9a5, 95220c22-29b4-4ea3-a8be-acfb02a17277]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Freedom comes from chosen constraints** — His essays on style, design compromise, and “great tools choose to be bad at some things” argue that constraints collapse decisions, focus effort, and make exceptional work possible. [771dca69-ed3c-45ef-a241-b36aaa6a6b5a, cad48cce-0324-4f71-9ff5-6699a6a877a6, 757939fb-30d5-4a6a-889f-f8dd0573e085]
- **Trust should be encoded into the artifact, not outsourced to promises** — “Self-guaranteeing promises” names his preference for verifiable, non-reversible guarantees: file-over-app works because the same files can be opened elsewhere, while policies, governance structures, and open source alone can be revoked or undermined. [1b823b62-44da-4a3c-a0d5-8a1aedea2150]
- **Incentives are part of product design** — Obsidian’s user-supported model, refusal of VC, free core app, optional paid services, and small-team posture are not business trivia; they are mechanisms meant to protect privacy, durability, focus, and user alignment. [65972a08-834f-4899-8ea2-90b88bf48643, 5fe2af4f-93e8-4e9e-82e6-9a0ba722c9d6]
- **Understanding should not be delegated** — His “don’t delegate understanding” principle is anti-passivity rather than anti-expertise: good experts help you understand, while bad systems ask for blind trust and then extract control. [e6e4ea87-242f-4ece-acc2-2780a1330624, b33140ff-ef17-4543-8095-e0ea6021e767]
- **Ideas become useful when made manipulable** — Evergreen notes, concise explanations, and links turn vague thoughts into small, named, reusable objects that can be combined, rebutted, remixed, stacked, and built upon. [be535d72-36cc-4772-809d-187baac27b23, cb987af0-8778-4904-8aba-a10f4a420fdb]
- **Quality is care expressed as detail** — “In good hands” defines trust as a cohesive point of view with attention to detail across music, film, food, architecture, writing, and software; this explains his obsession with polish, typography, speed, color, and defaults. [28b28025-469f-4d64-a727-6d62ed095dd7]
- **Optimism is an active discipline** — He frames optimism as harder than pessimism because it must be reaffirmed, based on the assumptions that the future can be great, people’s intentions are mostly good, and ideas are fragile enough to need nurturing. [8c6eee3b-bd01-4709-a249-83ae778cbdf6]
- **Powerful tools require agency, not infantilization** — “Use the saw, fear the saw” argues against crippling tools in the name of safety; the goal is to empower competent use while respecting danger. [f166ddb7-8049-4e2b-bcb0-546cb165b0c0]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **Plain text becomes more valuable in the AI era** — Ango argues that Markdown/local files were “the best choice all along” because LLMs and agents can directly read, search, edit, and reason over folders of text without proprietary APIs or cloud lock-in. [ab3af156-8ed0-417f-a69c-65903c751b23, 5cbf8047-f133-4dd3-a974-d28f2d612c92]
- **AI will be most useful when it respects locality and privacy** — He expects text transformation and AI workflows to improve dramatically, but prefers local files, local/private inference where possible, plugins, Web Clipper Interpreter, and agent workflows outside the personal vault rather than AI injected into the core thinking space. [836769e9-52c8-4992-8f26-45ddf0f51c70, f46c690d-fee5-4f21-8c13-eb4261340632]
- **Agentic coding increases leverage but does not erase craft** — He predicts agents let one developer make far more software, but rejects the idea that everyone wants to make or maintain bespoke apps; chefs, designers, and toolmakers remain valuable because taste and recurring ergonomic fit still matter. [855b9e30-28a7-4b16-815b-0bae64f37b98, 7fb9b543-e939-4f3d-ad80-e2eba1dcabeb]
- **Tiny principled teams become more viable** — He sees modern tools allowing more companies to look like Obsidian: small, fast, profitable, user-supported, low-bureaucracy, and able to reach many users without VC-scale hiring. [c0b63c38-792c-401f-9d4f-bb9cd5c247d1]
- **Software durability will depend on ecosystems, not single apps** — His long-term story is not that Obsidian lasts forever, but that open formats, libraries, importers, CLI tools, and competing clients make user data resilient after any particular app dies. [d36ec3e6-c76f-487e-ae8f-4b061ebc9672, 6d3dad35-0bc9-4947-85fd-58db03c2c277]
- **Hardware may reshape note-taking more than app features** — He suggests the next major change in note-taking may come from hardware, chips, input methods, local inference, digital paper, sensory computing, or devices that change the ergonomics of capture and reading. [4ccde3fa-d54d-4402-b7a5-279659f6a486, 0dd6e5fb-0333-43e0-bbdd-08cce5bfdd25, ee7cbe75-5b52-494b-96c4-42b52ef26f2e]
- **The web will require reader-defense tools** — He treats the degradation of web reading as a structural trend: sites increasingly resist RSS, semantic HTML, third-party readers, and clean capture, making tools like Reader and Defuddle necessary countermeasures. [587ea3e1-2445-47e4-b1a5-337b513df9a5, 2923daec-b53a-463e-a85f-a7fcb75d01f2]
- **Civilization is becoming a planetary nervous system** — In his more speculative register, roads, wires, computers, rockets, and maintenance work become organs of a “Thinking Earth,” with humans as cells building and repairing a planet-scale organism. [82c3c2d7-eb17-437a-a0c2-866eee51fd7b]

## Recurring questions

- **What will survive the death of the app?** — He repeatedly asks which artifacts can be read, owned, moved, and edited decades or centuries later, using examples from hieroglyphs, stone, paper, plain text, exports, and app shutdowns. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, 5a73cbb7-7779-44c9-bff3-e83602e32ab9]
- **What can we remove?** — A core diagnostic question across software, organizations, writing, websites, and personal systems is whether accumulated features, rules, dependencies, UI, or process have become cruft that should be pruned. [b52e9f7e-8e2c-451f-97eb-3a8e408887f8]
- **How do tools fit different minds without becoming chaos?** — He keeps returning to the problem of malleability: how much should be customizable, what belongs in core versus plugins, and how to preserve ergonomic diversity without making the product incoherent. [67fa7c74-5848-4edd-8bd2-6d236655b71a, 8dcd75d3-f0ba-4062-b1fd-cbb8d692dadd]
- **How do small observations become durable insight?** — His fractal journaling, random revisit, progressive summarization, yearly questions, decade questions, and evergreen notes all ask how daily fragments bubble up into themes that can be understood later. [03caf53e-320c-42a1-8727-e55251df1fb5, 84122e0b-7d37-42fa-93f4-af0236eab1f7, 0d1fd122-6501-418d-908b-3d1cddc1ab80]
- **What should be delegated, and what must remain personally understood?** — Across AI, experts, tools, dependencies, skills files, and note maintenance, he asks where leverage becomes agency loss. [e6e4ea87-242f-4ece-acc2-2780a1330624, b10d0915-6b95-4bbe-9044-79a9c43b3198]
- **What is the right level of abstraction?** — His arguments about Markdown, SQLite, JSON Canvas, CLI, Bases, grep, file formats, and agents keep asking whether complexity belongs in the file, the index, the UI, the plugin, or a higher-level tool. [06e2d9cf-8367-4d35-b5fb-7aa1301a734d, ef2068b1-306e-40ce-92e6-c73158bbb8eb, 730]
- **How can a company stay aligned as it grows?** — He asks whether a team can stay small, avoid meetings, preserve joy, keep high craft, listen directly to users, and resist the gravitational pull of metrics, enterprise sales, VC, and bureaucracy. [d762e3a7-1870-49b6-a538-51c36ceffea9, 847]
- **How does one choose what is worth paying for, building, or keeping?** — “Cost per use,” “cost per smile,” “quality software deserves cash,” and his furniture/tool buying habits turn consumption into a recurring question about longevity, repairability, externalities, learning, and joy. [d3df065c-40fa-4245-8294-f562172bac9c, 76b76304-199f-49a1-8392-dd5f43e08c38]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Open source sympathy vs closed-source Obsidian** — Ango says much of his work is open source and builds open libraries/formats, yet argues Obsidian itself should prioritize open file formats and financial sustainability over being fully open source. [5c3e51d5-6569-42c8-9898-f5f2dcbf5eb7, cb20f07d-092c-4fe1-8335-79bcdc706de6]
- **Maximum user agency vs coherent product quality** — The same malleability that lets users adapt Obsidian creates support complexity, plugin fragility, visual inconsistency, and more ways to “shoot yourself in the foot.” [5216f344-bfba-4fdf-8fc0-cb83389b5a94, 872]
- **Local-first ownership vs collaboration convenience** — He wants data local, private, offline, and E2E encrypted, while acknowledging that sharing, collaboration, permissions, iOS APIs, sync edge cases, and Dropbox/iCloud limitations are difficult precisely because of those constraints. [3bd294b3-1f0c-45c3-ad2a-17b7fd983f0d, 61d39c64-734e-4a8f-86f7-462b0874fb7d, 90ebd9ad-3397-43af-97c6-bdbebda44b10]
- **Human-first anti-slop stance vs heavy AI-adjacent tooling** — He resists “sparkly AI buttons,” avoids AI in his personal vault, and warns against delegating writing/thinking, yet builds AI-friendly file workflows, Interpreter, CLI loops, headless sync, and agent-facing affordances. [69624a68-ca28-424a-968c-03140fb0e571, 741]
- **Small-team joy vs large-community responsibility** — Obsidian’s no-VC, no-analytics, small-team model preserves craft and autonomy, but millions of users, thousands of plugins, localization, support, community review, and feature expectations create scaling pressure. [aaa6d2e5-f7af-4576-a7dd-50665a821003, 875]
- **Minimalism vs deep customization** — He praises plain text, few folders, short essays, static sites, and removal, but also builds elaborate vault templates, properties, Bases, Flexoki palettes, Minimal settings, theming systems, and custom publishing pipelines. [9519736e-7168-4480-93cd-8397b62327f8, df2de632-e973-45bc-a523-fb3903ffd0bb, 95220c22-29b4-4ea3-a8be-acfb02a17277]
- **Optimism against existential drift** — His public optimism coexists with an admitted tendency toward existential depression; the resolution is self-supplied light, inside-out motivation, and building because curiosity is alive rather than because the universe validates it. [8c6eee3b-bd01-4709-a249-83ae778cbdf6, 17d712fa-2140-412d-ac4b-76cfbe66aa3d]
- **Aesthetic control vs openness to being changed** — He wants total control over his reading/writing environment, avatars, site, colors, and home objects, while also seeking the feeling of being “in good hands” enough to suspend judgment and enter someone else’s worldview. [9706564c-852b-4561-a03b-c814f462f1f2, 28b28025-469f-4d64-a727-6d62ed095dd7]

## Unifying threads

- **Entropy resistance is the master pattern** — His recurring mechanisms—plain files, pruning, self-review, performance work, no-VC funding, dependency reduction, and local-first privacy—all defend against decay in knowledge, software, organizations, and incentives. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, 56fc3adf-e5bd-4e41-88e0-29f1dd69d993, a88ca0e5-a413-4d42-bf03-013b9d64a3d3]
- **Artifacts matter more than interfaces** — Whether talking about hieroglyphs, Markdown, static sites, diaries, JSON Canvas, imports, or files edited by many apps, he treats durable artifacts as the true object of preservation and apps as temporary handles. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, 582]
- **Agency is produced by constraints plus ownership** — The combination of style rules, open files, local control, direct funding, small teams, and tool malleability gives users and makers room to act without being trapped by platforms, investors, or inherited defaults. [771dca69-ed3c-45ef-a241-b36aaa6a6b5a, 65972a08-834f-4899-8ea2-90b88bf48643, 1b823b62-44da-4a3c-a0d5-8a1aedea2150]
- **Thinking is a material craft** — His writing, notes, furniture, recipes, color palettes, and software all treat ideas as things that can be shaped, linked, sanded, baked, revisited, overdone, reduced, and made more useful through hands-on manipulation. [be535d72-36cc-4772-809d-187baac27b23, 7fe19afe-2aa1-4104-bf1e-24a683876ace]
- **Interoperability is a moral and creative stance** — He sees file-over-app not merely as portability, but as a way for multiple tools, agents, editors, static-site generators, importers, and future competitors to coexist around the same user-owned data. [41b650ec-841f-47bb-b15e-6d913f603d07, 1b7a4c9b-0a0c-40ce-999c-0e1df3ea56a1]
- **Care scales through systems, not control** — His preferred systems—manifestos, concise explanations, ramblings, community plugins, open specs, templates, and optional services—let a small number of people create leverage without centralizing every decision. [b52309db-c38a-4ac3-b798-a5d4b2836409, f210fb93-535e-4c49-9e4f-fb996ff59860]
- **The best tools amplify human light without replacing the human** — From “caloric energy is precious” to AI agents, Obsidian, bicycles for the senses, and powerful saws, tools are valuable when they free energy, extend perception, and support thinking without asking people to abdicate agency. [015a8208-3450-4d7b-899a-5bc11d3853e6, f166ddb7-8049-4e2b-bcb0-546cb165b0c0, 851]
- **Worldview becomes product** — Obsidian, Flexoki, Minimal, Web Clipper, Defuddle, JSON Canvas, the vault template, and his essays are less separate projects than repeated instantiations of the same ethos: durable, malleable, private, calm, interoperable, carefully made tools for thinking. [d7c77e10-46d9-4879-a624-53126d71f195, 97d62cfc-ae25-467b-9157-c6eff7895098]

## Sources

- @ospfranco Read this https://t.co/JAoRD8luUZ · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078556371465949285
- formats evolve over decades, apps over months, intelligence is evolving every day in terms of pace layers "file over app" defines prioritie… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078550254027477399
- @steipete it's graphs all the way down · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078296460064629127
- @jphorism @dwahdany @tldraw try searching for "from:kepano grep" e.g. the Obsidian CLI "orphans" command is much faster than grep because i… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078193480128733597
- @jphorism @dwahdany @tldraw What is "better"? As the harnesses improved in the last few months I hardly ever encounter problems with Obsidi… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078188875101663660
- @jphorism @dwahdany @tldraw you can always build more abstractions on top of simple formats, but you can't do the opposite Obsidian CLI is … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078182242980126789
- @jphorism @dwahdany @tldraw that sounds like a justification for choosing the wrong level of abstraction — remember Gall's law: "all comple… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078174996619518414
- I love SQLite! However it is a binary format, it's nothing like plain text in terms of simplicity, breadth of support, interoperability. Yo… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2078131667047522628
- @fbmcipher @tldraw Depends on the case but probably not going to have a noticeable impact. The UI is much more of a limiting factor for per… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077934943276294654
- @schrepfler Honestly didn't even know Atlassian has its own canvas. What are specific Confluence Whiteboard features you use that aren't in… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077877106550427728
- @tldraw I'm not totally sold yet! A spec for the .tldraw format would be useful so other clients can read/write to it independently, unless… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077876693608562910
- @schrepfler last I heard OCWG has landed on "pandoc for canvas formats" which seems like a useful thing for the space · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077856924310417455
- @schrepfler eventually yes · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077856419345514726
- @tldraw I just learned that .tldraw is an uncompressed .zip (that's good) but if I understand correctly db.sqlite is the primary file — why… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077817827814494696
- @tldraw @joodalooped uncompressed zip makes sense to me (better compatibility across OSes) but if I am understanding correctly, inside the … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077816546458759426
- @joodalooped @tldraw you can still bundle media into a file/folder (à la .textbundle) · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077809670815899929
- @tldraw This is cool! Why did you choose not to center the app around creating and editing .tldr files directly? Make it more file over app… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077806945306906891
- @turanmahmudov is there an open issue on the Obsidian forum? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077224151782470017
- @HeathDingwell it sounds unlikely to be related to iOS27, I'd suggest reaching out on the official Discord or forums so we can investigate … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077224045242888437
- @b2bvic it can https://t.co/xmhcCLsYRj · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077169499049267214
- @HeathDingwell which version of Obsidian? how long is "a while"? what plugins? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077162197814571269
- @gregbarbosa both of the ones I mentioned were tricky CodeMirror bugs, see 1721 and 1709 (for some reason X won't let me link to them) · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077153648438907057
- This update fixes some particularly thorny and longstanding bugs on iOS and Android. You can now smoothly scroll massive Markdown files in … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2077148056424947871
- Reykjavik doors https://t.co/q9FB8UKNfb · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076336731797049482
- Stockholm doors, pt 2 https://t.co/lOCmhjdSMX · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076336718547202518
- Stockholm doors https://t.co/i0NzJcn9gM · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076336706278809799
- @aykutkardas The best way is via plugin-dev channel on Discord · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076282316520112254
- @cricolo85 @zompdesigns yes, it was just updated yesterday https://t.co/vRXUtFlNb8 · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076281984092164197
- @Jackzee15 @zompdesigns yes, Obsidian CLI is free for everyone without any limits https://t.co/GdU5TICD0h · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076145574978761020
- @CamronWalker @zompdesigns 1. Sync is E2EE so an MCP cannot do anything useful 2. Try installing obsidian-skills https://t.co/vQWtoGjoxv · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076125614478889140
- @zompdesigns use the Obsidian CLI https://t.co/Qgh4w6xoHC · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2076051848424038869
- @rickasaurus Have you seen this function well anywhere? I'm skeptical that it would even be able to catch that particular question since ne… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075947497646886926
- @rickasaurus Are you suggesting I let an LLM reply to my @ mentions? Or that the user should have asked an LLM? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075943616992932044
- I don't disagree with this, but Amazon has 1.5 million employees, Obsidian has 8. You don't expect to @ Jeff Bezos and get a reply, whereas… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075940984119283933
- @dsllwn of course, it's the side effect of doing something anyone else cares about — I'd much rather that than the opposite https://t.co/BG… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075708867737256428
- (this wasn't meant as a dunk, it was to highlight one of the necessary but unglamorous things about making software as a small team) · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075704802177360124
- @dsllwn Decorum still matters. I don't think it's appropriate to hijack an unrelated conversation with your issue especially for a free pro… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075697134909977077
- I mean yes, there is always more education we can do. I think my point was perhaps not made clearly in both tweets. The first was reporting… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075654255625777567
- @flowybin No, it's laziness. People find it easier to @ me than to search or test it themselves. For this question in particular, every Mar… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075636573404844351
- @luisgonzaleznf @distsys @flowybin 1. Every Markdown app worth its salt supports HTML since Markdown is a superset of HTML (see the origina… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075635800910545333
- @drexalt it is enough to fill my heart · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075608516501676229
- @luisgonzaleznf Perhaps my tone was lost but people in the replies seem mostly playful not insulting. Also, I was not asking for feature re… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075602188211253603
- @luisgonzaleznf Don't take it personally, it's just one of many examples... But this does get tiring! It seems faster to search or try it i… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075595280683286850
- my experience of social media is sisyphean https://t.co/606DgG9glz · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075562317161595130
- @luisgonzaleznf Markdown is a superset of HTML · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075559496819343700
- @luisgonzaleznf that's been in Obsidian since 2020 https://t.co/qihgwKZ519 · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075555053646369044
- @distsys yes https://t.co/8WR9kttHhK · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075550903114019035
- @dhruvalization https://t.co/8WR9kttHhK · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075550843127095532
- @luisgonzaleznf that's been in Obsidian since 2020 · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075550669784948888
- still going strong https://t.co/pobQchgoPm · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075346924237168958
- Writing is a form of thinking. I can't think of any business success I have ever had that didn't involve writing. I don't know what an "AI … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2075228307709415693
- you can multiply it by ten again https://t.co/Zox49mkY8Q · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2074844435444072619
- @sambharia then it should work unless you're on a really old version of iOS · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2073866920294486195
- @sambharia what version of Obsidian are you on? try updating · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2073865065707520500
- @sambharia that feature already exists https://t.co/OaWADAcYCb · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2073856675581210966
- @Esguitos 1.14 · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2072780669583831350
- Start by keeping it simple and understanding basic concepts like [[links]], frontmatter, bases. You need to understand how to use these you… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2072397815490154612
- in Stockholm for a few days what are your favorite places? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2071949931649065222
- @_nedamani @obsdmd did you try logging into the developer dashboard at community.obsidian.md or asking the team in the plugin-dev Discord c… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2071946969388367909
- @_Xheldon Chrome's config sync is already supported by default Syncing to the vault is not really possible due to E2EE · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2071940462462558693
- @chronosensitive I'll guess it was Dataview, Tasks, or Omnisearch, they all significantly delay load it could also be iCloud if you haven't… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2071018807787725196
- @chronosensitive Unlikely... How many files? I have around 19k and it's instant. What phone model and version of iOS? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2070968513037049871
- @chronosensitive 1. try disabling plugins 2. are you opening a non-md file? (e.g. .base) · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2070962148696592895
- @jethrojones @obsdmd It does show up for me. If your plugin is brand new it's added within 24h. · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2070933015853703180
- @jethrojones @obsdmd no, yes · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2070900490397716896
- @kaygdotorg @sergiowpf @squeakytoy @mattcassinelli @WorkingCopyApp yes · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2070872013820903554
- @dwahdany If you can reproduce open a bug on the forum. · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2069272802075816359
- @dwahdany I can't reproduce that. Could it be your plugins? This is a really basic feature that has worked since the start. · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2069197843517071842
- @dwahdany that's already how it works, any edits to the file are instantly visible in Obsidian if you don't see them it means your agent is… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2069176756729233619
- @basicswe @manan_suneja @dwr I have a slightly different idea, still saved in the doc · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2068089809508171800
- @DawsonSchrader You're using several of the heaviest plugins available. Tasks, Dataview, and Omnisearch maintain their own indexes which ru… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067947824331813159
- @pr4khar 1. Make sure your Obsidian folder is set to Keep Downloaded in iCloud in all devices otherwise iCloud automatically deletes your f… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067946729886896401
- @manan_suneja @dwr I haven't shared anything about it yet · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067757144632394039
- @dwr working on it ☺️ · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067659424697631210
- @michael_lwy @obsdmd that's expected because a lot of them use external CSS and JS so it can't effectively be converted to just a markdown … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067588499616706800
- @ZiminZhao @luisgonzaleznf there are tens of thousands of posts on the forum so I don't track them all myself, but if it's a bug with easy … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067385293737750802
- @luisgonzaleznf it will be fixed in the next version · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067384331648339994
- @ZiminZhao @luisgonzaleznf why are they reporting them to you? I haven't heard about it until now 😆 · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067046999288160278
- @luisgonzaleznf ok I'll look into it, thanks · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2067035663397249435
- @luisgonzaleznf is there an issue on the forum for it? https://t.co/suSG5qxDNA · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2066908863274819928
- @0xStateMachine 1. Is currently supported via the core plugin unique note creator (but would like to add it more broadly) 2. Yes, though it… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2066868586078220444
- @PatrickHill @meowhib Settings > Core plugins > Unique note creator · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2066526645541126596
- @miguelieren you can use pipe to to define the display text for internal links e.g. [[note|display text]], but it's not a type. Not sure we… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2066331282741837854
- @shtosan you can help! https://t.co/dhfeTqA4Ex · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2066237292495474732
- @meowhib Sorry meant to say "why not*" — in other words, add "tags" to your default note template that way you won't have to type it in at … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2065904598246924485
- @meowhib if all your entries have the tags property why have your new note template prefilled with that property? · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2065874025784758300
- @amirmxt @obsdmd No. 1. Web Clipper is an independent tool that you can use with other apps. Share sheet requires Obsidian. 2. Web Clipper … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2065451809888760292
- @kris_card @obsdmd Both will continue to exist, Web Clipper is a browser extension so it can act on browser content in different ways that … · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2065093825618665738
- @DottChen @obsdmd try this https://t.co/Q2O9fIs8Vw · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064889239083557098
- @hui1231123 @obsdmd They are links but you can always use the built-in Obsidian command to download attachments · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064870219361992970
- @confitinspot @obsdmd it should already work for this · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064865612871180707
- @ldenoue @obsdmd try this https://t.co/Wb94Zmr85X · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064798184199840076
- @TabiZzFR @obsdmd Yes they are separate. Catalyst is one-time donation that helps keep Obsidian 100% user-supported regardless of what sync… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064785836311498834
- @ldenoue @obsdmd Defuddle · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064785206327066722
- @mikalcallahan @obsdmd Templates are already supported in the share sheet. We'll see about the rest, not sure yet. Web Clipper is definitel… · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064785152216269122
- @MentionLux @obsdmd No · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064784713244610890
- @Kevrsub @obsdmd Obsidian Web Clipper also has a special Reader view for YouTube with interactive transcripts: https://t.co/mwy55JwJSV · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064778035849732148
- @Przemek_Filar @jorgegodoy @obsdmd maybe eventually, for now you can use Web Clipper, or Defuddle: https://t.co/rv5zyrlmPN · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064775080874496158
- @jorgegodoy @obsdmd No · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064772252806324330
- @obsdmd To get beta versions of Obsidian: https://t.co/3z7NGlZxGJ · x.com — https://x.com/kepano/status/2064771509525377304

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