NOTE-TAKING

Take Better Notes With This Free Note-Taking App That Wants to Be Your Second Brain

Obsidian makes connecting ideas easy and helps you think and write better

Obsidian’s multi-pane editor and graph view (other themes are available). Screenshot by the author.

Obsidian might be the note-taking app we’ve been waiting for.

It wants to be your second brain. It lets you capture your ideas and take notes in text (Markdown) files (also check out this collaboration app that has built-in Markdown team wiki), and most importantly, it easily connects your notes and visualizes connections among them. It’s perfect for discovering insights from your notes. It’s also free, so you have little to lose if you try it. And if you use Alfred on macOS, check out my Alfred Obsidian workflow.

It’s made me rethink why we take notes and completely changed how I take notes.

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