# 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: 13230
- About report version: v3

## About

Steph Ango’s public thought has a single architectural pattern: protect human agency by making the substrate durable, inspectable, local, modifiable, and economically aligned. Across Obsidian, essays, themes, open formats, publishing workflows, woodworking, recipes, and company design, he keeps returning to the same mechanism: values become real only when they are embedded in files, defaults, constraints, rituals, funding models, and tools that make exit credible rather than merely promised. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, 1b823b62-44da-4a3c-a0d5-8a1aedea2150, 5fe2af4f-93e8-4e9e-82e6-9a0ba722c9d6, 771dca69-ed3c-45ef-a241-b36aaa6a6b5a]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Durable artifacts over transient tools.** Ango’s signature theme is “file over app”: the files people create matter more than the software used to create them, because apps die while open, user-controlled artifacts can survive and be reused. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550]
- **Interoperability as freedom.** He repeatedly distinguishes true file-over-app from export: exports are “one-way doors,” while files directly editable by multiple tools create a “two-way door” and make the same data usable across a constellation of apps. [5d91eb35-ee81-4bb8-b459-abdd1962d523]
- **Thinking as linking, not filing.** His own Obsidian practice favors few folders, many wiki links, unresolved links as breadcrumbs, templates, properties, and bottom-up emergence; notes become useful because they can sit at many intersections rather than one folder path. [9519736e-7168-4480-93cd-8397b62327f8]
- **Ideas as composable objects.** Evergreen notes matter to him because they turn thoughts into manipulable “objects” that can be combined, stacked, and reused like conceptual Lego bricks. [be535d72-36cc-4772-809d-187baac27b23]
- **Constraint as creative leverage.** “Style is consistent constraint” recurs across writing, dates, clothing, file formats, tags, food, and design; constraints reduce decision fatigue and create a recognizable point of view. [771dca69-ed3c-45ef-a241-b36aaa6a6b5a]
- **Craft across media.** His public identity is not just software executive but designer, artist, entrepreneur, toolmaker, writer, furniture designer, cook, and systems thinker, with interviews emphasizing hardware, software, furniture, packaging, wood, instruments, and industrial design. [31f7316f-952c-4b42-a302-3ed040799c7e]
- **Removal as maintenance.** He treats pruning, simplification, and performance work as moral design labor: systems naturally accumulate cruft, so good systems need built-in counterpressure against endless addition. [b52e9f7e-8e2c-451f-97eb-3a8e408887f8]
- **Independent software economics.** A major theme is that quality independent software must be paid for directly, because “free” industrial software is subsidized by ads, hardware lock-in, proprietary formats, app-store leverage, or data extraction. [76b76304-199f-49a1-8392-dd5f43e08c38]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Promises should be self-guaranteeing.** Ango distrusts policy-based assurances and prefers guarantees baked into artifacts: file-over-app works because users can verify that the same open files can be opened elsewhere, not because a company says so. [1b823b62-44da-4a3c-a0d5-8a1aedea2150]
- **Open formats can matter more than open source.** In Obsidian’s case, he argues that open file formats plus user-supported development better protect long-term user agency than open source alone, which can still leave data trapped in databases or proprietary formats. [cb20f07d-092c-4fe1-8335-79bcdc706de6]
- **Open source remains valuable as ecosystem infrastructure.** He rejects the caricature that he is anti-open-source, saying much of his work is open source and aimed at building blocks for alternative apps, while Obsidian’s app model is chosen for financial viability. [5c3e51d5-6569-42c8-9898-f5f2dcbf5eb7]
- **Malleability means modification, not blank-slate creation.** He defines malleable tools as tools deliberately designed to be modified—through plugins, themes, settings, or code—because people want ergonomic fit more often than they want to build tools from scratch. [1df97467-95f7-4793-baa7-dfc788467f94]
- **Everyone thinks differently.** Obsidian’s extensibility, plugins, themes, and non-dogmatic organization philosophy follow from Ango’s pluralist view that different brains need different workflows, and that leaving is sometimes the right outcome for a user. [2ea34e25-22ec-4ff1-996f-15d0d8d0e5f4, 7330abdb-cbc9-4c89-bf49-15b852375e8c]
- **Writing is thinking.** He treats writing not as downstream documentation but as cognition itself; delegating writing, in his view, risks delegating thinking. [95bfaddb-b573-4a87-aefc-44d603e8336f]
- **Do not delegate understanding.** His anti-outsourcing principle is not anti-expert; it means good experts increase your understanding rather than asking for blind trust, and that importing “distilled thinking” you do not understand is dangerous. [e6e4ea87-242f-4ece-acc2-2780a1330624, b33140ff-ef17-4543-8095-e0ea6021e767]
- **Optimism is active labor.** He frames optimism as harder than pessimism because it must be reaffirmed, but necessary for creating a better future: assume the future can be great, intentions are mostly good, and ideas need nurturing. [8c6eee3b-bd01-4709-a249-83ae778cbdf6]
- **Good design is chosen compromise.** He rejects “uncompromising” product rhetoric, arguing that all design is tradeoff selection; the best products are opinionated about what they are bad at so they can be excellent at something else. [cad48cce-0324-4f71-9ff5-6699a6a877a6]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **Markdown and plain text become AI-native substrates.** Ango argues that plain text is “the language of LLMs,” making Obsidian’s local Markdown foundation well-suited to agents, local models, and best-in-class AI tools without requiring first-party AI lock-in. [5cbf8047-f133-4dd3-a974-d28f2d612c92, ab3af156-8ed0-417f-a69c-65903c751b23]
- **Cloud AI will pressure private data.** His default expectation is that SaaS platforms with readable, non-E2E-encrypted data will eventually revise policies to use that data for AI training, making local-first and encrypted architectures a defensive advantage. [a79e7698-e9e3-49d0-baba-932716626ecf]
- **Text editing will become transformation-rich.** In “Photoshop for text,” he predicts that summarizing, expanding, rewriting, and style-shifting entire documents will become as normal as image filters, ideally on local files and devices rather than remote servers. [836769e9-52c8-4992-8f26-45ddf0f51c70]
- **Tiny, principled teams become more viable.** He expects more teams to look like Obsidian because modern tools let small teams reach users, stay profitable, and preserve principles without VC-scale hiring or bureaucracy. [c0b63c38-792c-401f-9d4f-bb9cd5c247d1, b272f64c-9a81-449f-950d-50f1d4be3669]
- **Ergonomics survives agentic software.** He pushes back on the idea that bespoke, AI-generated apps eliminate design: repeated-use tools still need stability, taste, repeatability, and ergonomic fit, while just-in-time UIs are better for short-lived tasks. [7fb9b543-e939-4f3d-ad80-e2eba1dcabeb]
- **The next note-taking shift may be hardware.** When asked how Obsidian would differ if built today, he says Markdown remains the right foundation and that the next major shift is more likely to involve chips, new input methods, or more accessible local/private AI than a different text format. [4d9cda37-3098-4b62-bd73-8ee18fbc2c1f]
- **Sensory computing expands beyond screens.** He extends “computer as bicycle for the mind” into “bicycle for the senses,” imagining technologies that enhance sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste through headsets, haptics, and sensory augmentation. [0dd6e5fb-0333-43e0-bbdd-08cce5bfdd25]
- **The web becomes adversarial to reading.** Obsidian Reader and Defuddle reflect his view that modern websites increasingly resist reading through ads, cookie banners, walled gardens, app prompts, and non-semantic markup, requiring reader tools that actively extract and normalize content. [587ea3e1-2445-47e4-b1a5-337b513df9a5]

## Recurring questions

- **What should be a file, and what should be an app?** Ango repeatedly tests tools against whether the working data and final artifact can be the same open file, because every export step adds complexity, intention, and failure points. [7b248798-cfd5-4d3a-9179-1ed380c2b4b7]
- **What makes a promise irreversible?** He asks whether a guarantee can be verified and not revoked, using examples from file formats to stainless steel and privacy architectures to distinguish real guarantees from trust-dependent policy claims. [20a6309e-4f0b-46fd-83ec-31f36d04c1d1]
- **How do you preserve thoughts across time?** His questions about yearly reviews, decade questions, diaries, great-grandparents’ autobiographical books, and ancient writing all orbit the problem of converting lived experience into retrievable artifacts. [84122e0b-7d37-42fa-93f4-af0236eab1f7, e4d83218-9b8f-40c1-9966-0c218c094079]
- **How much structure is enough?** His vault practice asks how to embrace “chaos and laziness” while still creating useful structure through links, templates, properties, bases, and periodic review rather than top-down taxonomy. [9519736e-7168-4480-93cd-8397b62327f8]
- **What can be removed?** Whether discussing essays, UI, performance, dependencies, websites, or organizational process, he repeatedly asks what is extraneous and how invisible removal work can preserve a system’s health. [b52e9f7e-8e2c-451f-97eb-3a8e408887f8]
- **What is the right level of abstraction?** In debates over SQLite, JSON, Markdown, CLI tools, agents, and canvas formats, he asks whether complexity belongs at the substrate level or as optional layers built on simpler primitives. [06e2d9cf-8367-4d35-b5fb-7aa1301a734d, ef2068b1-306e-40ce-92e6-c73158bbb8eb]
- **How do tools fit different minds?** He keeps returning to when tools should be opinionated, when they should be malleable, and when users should pick another app entirely because cognition is plural. [7330abdb-cbc9-4c89-bf49-15b852375e8c]
- **How do you know what problem is worth solving?** His “problem-finding” essay frames the core entrepreneurial question as finding the intersection between problems worth solving and problems you are capable of solving, especially inside complex domains where insiders have normalized the pain. [ca55c083-5e4e-4b81-a82d-2f25b4ba568a]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Closed app, open ecosystem.** Ango defends Obsidian as closed-source while simultaneously investing in open formats, open libraries, open themes, Importer, Web Clipper, Defuddle, and JSON Canvas; the tension is resolved by prioritizing artifact durability over app-code availability. [5c3e51d5-6569-42c8-9898-f5f2dcbf5eb7, 39a2477e-9d22-48f3-b35e-8c95712c18c4]
- **Malleability versus simplicity.** Obsidian’s power comes from plugins, themes, bases, links, canvases, and custom workflows, yet Ango also warns against overcomplicating Obsidian and tells beginners to keep it simple before adding AI or elaborate systems. [b557911f-56d8-486d-94cb-3f70dc80ee5f, 32e54728-3661-4795-9ea8-85b102035afc]
- **Human-first software in an AI-saturated world.** He believes plain-text vaults are ideal for agents, yet wants Obsidian itself to remain human-first, without sparkly AI buttons, and keeps agent-generated artifacts separate from his personal vault to avoid contaminating his own thoughts. [69624a68-ca28-424a-968c-03140fb0e571, 9ffcf6e2-5e65-4b3e-95a8-0b037918963f]
- **Local-first versus collaboration.** He treats local ownership as core, but acknowledges sharing and collaboration are hard because permissions, attachments, path conflicts, shared vaults, and “avoid surprise” ergonomics collide with local-first assumptions. [3bd294b3-1f0c-45c3-ad2a-17b7fd983f0d, a0dff751-3680-4962-81e3-3dedc2a312d2]
- **No lock-in, but paid sustainability.** Obsidian intentionally makes exit easy, which weakens traditional retention economics; Ango argues this is precisely why users should pay for services such as Sync if they value principled, independent software. [5fe2af4f-93e8-4e9e-82e6-9a0ba722c9d6]
- **Small team pride versus support burden.** He celebrates tiny teams and no-meeting, high-craft culture, but also openly notes the tradeoff: millions of users, thousands of plugins, limited bandwidth, and the need to prioritize only a few things at a time. [aaa6d2e5-f7af-4576-a7dd-50665a821003, 5216f344-bfba-4fdf-8fc0-cb83389b5a94]
- **Trust in people, distrust in institutions.** His optimism assumes people’s intentions are mostly good, while his software politics assume companies, platforms, policies, app stores, and VC incentives will drift toward extraction unless architecture prevents it. [8c6eee3b-bd01-4709-a249-83ae778cbdf6, 1b823b62-44da-4a3c-a0d5-8a1aedea2150]
- **Craft control versus patronage of specialists.** He wants to live among things he made or were made by people he knows, yet increasingly collaborates with local woodworkers and values their specialized craft rather than insisting on doing all fabrication himself. [a527b220-fdf8-4b1e-8908-efdd6f2fc9e2, 512214e8-2343-4f1f-90cb-8e370581e59]

## Unifying threads

- **Substrate is ethics.** For Ango, technical substrate is not neutral: Markdown, local files, open formats, static sites, E2EE, low dependencies, and simple file formats are ethical choices because they preserve agency when institutions change. [8a788397-79be-4345-bcc2-0901472bc550, a88ca0e5-a413-4d42-bf03-013b9d64a3d3]
- **Agency comes from exits.** His worldview treats exit not as a failure mode but as the proof of freedom: users can leave Obsidian, open the same files elsewhere, run other sync systems, use other agents, or build competing tools on the same formats. [6cf55a13-3ba1-4aa5-9378-8de021625dc3]
- **Composability is the bridge across domains.** Evergreen notes, Flexoki colors, furniture details, reusable design motifs, Markdown files, plugins, and open libraries all reflect the same preference for small reusable parts that can compound into richer systems. [b52309db-c38a-4ac3-b798-a5d4b2836409, b93769ae-e892-409d-a9ea-72908285a2bf]
- **Durability is personal before it is ideological.** His own vault is described as about 20 years old with 17k files, making his file-first philosophy look like a lived information-stewardship practice rather than merely Obsidian marketing. [5fe2af4f-93e8-4e9e-82e6-9a0ba722c9d6]
- **Making is a way of knowing.** He repeatedly explores by building: Winamp skins, Obsidian themes, Flexoki, Web Clipper, Defuddle, furniture, piano-learning tools, recipes, and writing all function as experiments in understanding a material or problem. [666e165a-5798-445e-845e-49ebc748463e, 7fe19afe-2aa1-4104-bf1e-24a683876ace]
- **Time compounds small fragments.** His fractal journaling, random revisits, annual questions, decade questions, and “a little bit every day” habit logic all assume that small actions become meaningful only through repetition, review, and long time horizons. [03caf53e-320c-42a1-8727-e55251df1fb5, a1823a39-d5c6-4614-aa68-e547d2949502]
- **Quality is care made visible.** “In good hands” captures his aesthetic test: good work carries a cohesive point of view and attention to detail, whether the medium is software, food, furniture, writing, color, or architecture. [28b28025-469f-4d64-a727-6d62ed095dd7]
- **Freedom needs discipline.** Ango’s systems are not free-for-all abstractions; they rely on rituals, constraints, naming conventions, templates, reviews, pricing discipline, safety practices, and respect for powerful tools. [771dca69-ed3c-45ef-a241-b36aaa6a6b5a, f166ddb7-8049-4e2b-bcb0-546cb165b0c0]

## 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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