Back when I was looking for a new PKM system, I remember a "competitor" (now irrelevant) of obsidian making fun via Quote tweet of the Files over app manifesto, saying something like "nobody cares about the way the notes are stored". Ironically, that mean-spirited tweet made me discover Obsidian, and I've adopted it since then as I strongly agree with the philosophy of sovereignty over the content by them being plain files. I do care about how files are stored, felt trapped with OneNote proprietary format, and seeing what happens to Evernote, now care even more. More recently, Andrej Karparthy succinctly captured what's great about Obsidian: x.com/karpathy/status/17614679047370674… And with the new LLM powered, I find having tight control over files to be extremely powerful Thank you kepano!

It's a major player for personal notes. Eg > Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be. — x.com/karpathy/status/17614679047370674… And there's a lot of interest from tech-savvy folks wanting to use it at work. (Said as a cofounder of a co making business multiplayer tools)