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freedom of encryption is a human right

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Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/

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Obsidian 1.8.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile — lots of small bug fixes. Mobile changelog https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-18-mobile-v1.8.7 Desktop changelog https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-18-desktop-v1.8.7

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what feature should we remove from Obsidian? - something old that no longer serves its purpose - something that could be a plugin - something you never use - ?

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Obsidian 1.8.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-12-desktop-v1.8.6

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there's been a sharp acceleration in Obsidian community plugin submissions, in part due to the rise of AI coding tools it's a "good problem to have" but it's overwhelming our review process — our human reviewers can't keep up what should we do? 1. lower the bar for plugin review, introduce more community heuristics 2. invest in AI code-review tools to try and automate the process (not easy) 3. ?

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Obsidian 1.8.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-03-desktop-v1.8.5

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lately I have been focused on writing and building more than speaking, so there was a lot to catch up on!

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Obsidian 1.8.4 is now available with a few bug fixes. - Fixed iOS issue with black screen after install. - Fixed pressing Enter in a blockquote continues the blockquote correctly. - Fixed canvas preview images failing to display. - Fixed bug causing some plugins to not focus the correct tab when they open a file.

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Web views in 1.8 work just like any other Obsidian tab, meaning you can split vertically, split horizontally, stack tabs, pop out new windows, etc this opens up new workflows for web research, or editing websites generated from your .md files

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Obsidian 1.8.3 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! - Web viewer. New core plugin lets you open external links within Obsidian on desktop. This makes it easier to read linked content without leaving the app and improves multitasking for web research. The plugin can be enabled manually in settings. - Improved iCloud sync. Obsidian no longer waits to confirm that configuration files have synced. - New mobile onboarding. This guided flow helps new mobile users create and sync a vault. - New "Download attachments for current file" command. Downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds. See the changelog for dozens more improvements and bug fixes.

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if I spent less time using Obsidian I might have more time to improve it, but then I wouldn't know what to improve

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goofing around with some ui ideas for kepiano

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music notation is hard for me, so I'm trying to create an intentional synesthetic connection between notes and colors in my brain I made a new version of kepiano that connects via midi and displays the notes as flexoki colors (oh and there's a woodworking project in there too)

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Obsidian 1.8.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile Release notes: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-01-28-desktop-v1.8.3/

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think of local-first as a hardening function local systems should remain operational even when the infrastructure isn't... when the infrastructure comes back online, changes are synced it's the same reason you might want a battery or generator if the electrical grid goes down

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computers started local-first and will go back to local-first

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CMSes are a relic

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Priorities for my personal site: 1. I can write and publish directly from Obsidian 2. I can preview the site offline 3. I can switch hosts easily, all the data is in my control For a personal site I find that CMSes like Wordpress, Squarespace, and Webflow, add too much complexity and liability, while being less customizable. Friction has to be super low, otherwise I won't update it. Instead learn to use a static site generator. There are many options: Jekyll, Hugo, Quartz, Astro, Eleventy, etc. It's become simple to build and deploy them. Once you have it set up, everything else is a breeze. Some more detail on how I set up my website are at the bottom of this post: https://stephango.com/vault

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Obsidian 1.8.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. Contains many small improvements including: – Numbered lists automatically update when modified - Search in file shows the number of results - Added "Insert footnote" command - Added search to the Tags view https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-01-22-desktop-v1.8.2/

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