# Obsidian: what people say on TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, X

Read 1049 posts and comments on 2026-11-14; 620 were about Obsidian. Full report with links: https://sociallisteningai.com/samples/brand-obsidian/

Obsidian's biggest strength is its local, plain-markdown foundation, which users repeatedly describe as the natural home for AI-generated notes and a safe, portable place for their knowledge. The CEO's own vault, skills and workflow videos are a major draw, and the new CLI is the most talked-about feature, exciting power users while raising headless and sync questions. The loudest complaints are that second-brain setups can be productivity theater, that AI over a vault is token-hungry and error-prone, and that Obsidian is not actually open source. Beginners keep asking what Obsidian is really for and how to start, while many say they are switching from Notion or Evernote after watching a tutorial. A recurring surprise is how many people question whether Obsidian is needed at all when a plain folder plus Claude might do the job.

**How it feels** (620 on-topic): 50% positive, 11% negative, 12% mixed, 26% neutral.
- X: 214 (57% positive, 10% negative)
- Reddit: 76 (46% positive, 8% negative)
- YouTube: 211 (54% positive, 4% negative)
- TikTok: 117 (35% positive, 27% negative)
- Instagram: 2 (0% positive, 0% negative)

## What people like

- **The CLI is a game changer for power users, making the vault scriptable for agents and automation** (38 mentions)
  - "Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access). https://t.co/B8ed2zrWHe" X https://x.com/obsdmd/status/2021241384057930224
  - "Obsidian 1.15.1 is now available! - Search is revamped with faster results, Relevance sort, and accent-insensitive matching. - New Android widgets! View notes on your home screen. - Web Viewer on mobile. Turn it on in Co…" X https://x.com/obsdmd/status/2120906813390594162
- **Simple, uncluttered use beats over-engineering, and beginners say tutorials finally make it click** (29 mentions)
  - "A great reminder that Obsidian doesn't need 60 plugins of the week, 500 hours of custom setup, and a PhD in PARA to work. Write, link and add a few properties. All done "out of the box". Of course the real beauty of Obsi…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4&lc=UgywEnuG1YO7SQhTJJB4AaABAg
  - "Obsidian is free unless you want sync." TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
- **Obsidian works well as a backend or persistent memory layer for AI agents like Claude and Hermes** (24 mentions)
  - "andrej karpathy, co-founder of openai, keeps dropping the same line in every interview: "context engineering is the new programming". and 99% of the people who hear it still do not understand what he actually means i tes…" X https://x.com/mojeskoqq/status/2119528807103340719
  - "i tested the second brain setup for 42 days. it gave me back ~10 hours a week and killed the "wait, did i already read this?" anxiety for good. not re-googled a single thing twice since andrej karpathy: "context engineer…" X https://x.com/mojeskoqq/status/2119098004640804870
- **The CEO's own vault, templates and open-sourced skills let people copy a proven setup instead of starting blank** (22 mentions)
  - "This is f*cking gold, the CEO of Obsidian put his own second brain on GitHub for free and people still build theirs from zero 7 free repos from the Obsidian team: -> kepano obsidian (by kepano) https://t.co/lT5QtPucOn th…" X https://x.com/rvaniaaaa/status/2119056971298980112
  - "It's f*cking wild how many people still build their Claude + Obsidian setup by hand, when Obsidian's CEO already open-sourced all the tools 1. obsidian skills · 51K stars by kepano, Obsidian's CEO. Claude stops writing b…" X https://x.com/danikkk_wqs/status/2119405359362146622
- **Plugins, themes and visual features enable impressive custom dashboards and fun graphs** (19 mentions)
  - "Loving Obsidian as it lets me organize my life, capture thoughts, tasks, write and build a visual layer on top of my own data. I've wanted a proper dashboard in Obsidian for a long time. I tried a bunch of setups, but mo…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xm7pub/loving_obsidian_as_it_lets_me_organize_my_life/
  - "To all the students who use obsidian to study and take notes.... What are y'all's favorite plugins, themes, tips/tricks and whatnot for studying with obsidian? I'll start; Notebook view plugin.. makes navigation much bet…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xr868f/to_all_the_students_who_use_obsidian_to_study_and/
- **Local plain-markdown files make Obsidian the natural, portable home for notes and AI-generated content** (16 mentions)
  - "Obsidian already has dozens of AI-generated clones, so that ship sailed a long time ago. The bigger mission is [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app). If any of these clones help people get off of proprieta…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1x4wwpd/surprised_to_see_obsidian_on_the_artcraft/
  - "Obsidian being plain markdown and agents natively speaking markdown is the starting point. Obsidian sync adds another layer. And an Obsidian MCP wraps it all up. Now, I can be driving, chatting with Claude, having it do …" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/19s0dp4uz7ukh/
- **Linking, tags and daily notes replace rigid folders and help messy thinkers resurface old notes** (7 mentions)
  - "Not OP but: I have severe ADHD and having a place where I can put all my thoughts for later when my mind is racing is amazing. Linking notes is like therapy to my brain. It literally made me calmer, more organized and le…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xj38rj/obsidian_is_changing_my_life/19rv8hbd8m2hw/
  - "I switched to obsidian thanks to a video teaching me that the whole point was not to have an insanely precise setup, but rathe to throw links around to never think about "which folder does this note go in?" again. Change…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4&lc=UgwhasHYQqkBCCmnXxx4AaABAg

## Complaints and problems

- **Second-brain setups are called productivity theater or hype that ships nothing real** (17 mentions)
  - "The very concept of a “second brain” is just a marketing gimmick from grifty content creators. Obsidian is an app for creating and managing markdown files, there’s no wrong way to use it." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xo177j/dont_let_ai_manage_your_second_brain/
  - "Your setup is awesome. The problem with most of these systems, especially the guys pushing second brains, is that they don't even have a first brain to begin with. So everybody ends up getting lost in the sauce. Thank yo…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2i6UsQG1k&lc=UgztIXwESwLE1ty68954AaABAg
- **A plain folder of markdown plus Claude may be enough; Obsidian adds unnecessary fluff and UI** (11 mentions)
  - "i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/
  - "Obsidian is for people who enjoy the theater of organization over the reality of it." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/19s15fhtoyvsy/
- **AI over a vault is inefficient: bloated context, expensive tokens, poor traversal and arithmetic errors** (5 mentions)
  - "It makes simple multiplication arithmetic mistakes. Who needs a second brain you can’t trust" X https://x.com/AKorniyenko/status/2068843440524169322
  - "omething like this, but there’s problems. When you ask a question, there’s only so much context it can comb through. One solution I found was to make a map that rolls up the information to an abstraction layer, and links…" X https://x.com/ElliottTrader11/status/2068848147359465584
- **The learning curve and setup feel clunky and confusing for newcomers** (5 mentions)
  - "Bro this is like a week of work to get the wikis to actually build and format the right way but I do agree - everyone should do it." X https://x.com/kythadblevins/status/2068821348210676066
  - "At first i Thought random note, unique note creator staff are useless, but this video, told me i am actually using it wrong way, i will try this tomorrow morning, and start anew. Anyway, i only hsve 100+ notes (each are …" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4&lc=Ugyar3iHZnj8aQebUHl4AaABAg
- **Obsidian is not actually open source, and closed sync raises privacy and trust doubts** (4 mentions)
  - "Do you guys trust Obsidian? Should I move to a different platform?. I really like Obsidian, I trusted it until a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure it's just mental health related because I suffer from intense paranoia, b…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1rpylsf/do_you_guys_trust_obsidian_should_i_move_to_a/
  - "im trying to do this but with joplin becuase Obsidian isnt open source. It may be better but its not os" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2i6UsQG1k&lc=Ugw7Z76ujUpa8VAK7c14AaABAg
- **Fancy themes, graphs and visuals waste CPU/GPU and get in the way** (3 mentions)
  - "Every single ram, cpu, gpu is going to my project I’m not wasting them on somthing like this" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@clowsuzu/video/7707002036860079382
  - "me trying to open a needed note as it keeps flying away from the cursor cause i got the new useless galaxy theme that does nothing but eat computing power" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@clowsuzu/video/7707002036860079382
- **Sync is unreliable across devices and can delete notes, while git sync is slow** (2 mentions)
  - "Thank you for so much for this! I’ve set it up and am really enjoying the Obsidian structure and portability aspects. I’m having two issues 1) I’m running a synced Obsidian vault across two devices. Obsidian’s sync seems…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa9td4oe7k&lc=UgzEqISQkG-e6k_3TRx4AaABAg
  - "Compared to Obsidian sync, git is really slow." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/19s14yeg9qqgz/

## Questions people ask

- **What is Obsidian actually for, how do people use it day to day, and what am I missing?** (6 mentions)
  - "I want to get into using Obsidian, but I can't get what it's actually good for. I guess it's all about my workflow and my needs, but if you could share your own use cases, or how you use Obsidian in your own professional…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xgu03n/i_want_to_get_into_using_obsidian_but_i_cant_get/
  - "What do you guys even do with all of these" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
- **How do you connect Claude or other AI to Obsidian, and can it replace tools like Evernote?** (6 mentions)
  - "How" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
  - "can I use codex?" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
- **How do you keep AI from sharing notes, and how do you restrict permissions to certain folders?** (6 mentions)
  - "How we make sure claude doesn’t t not share our notes to everyone else?" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
  - "How does Claude keep everything linked" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
- **How do you build the dashboard homepage, and which plugins and themes are used?** (6 mentions)
  - "That homepage is dope. How did you make it? Is it a plugin?" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1spw6ww/obsidian_helped_me_so_much_sharing_vault_setup/oh3v0it/
  - "A combination of CSS and plugins! * the [MCL](https://github.com/efemkay/obsidian-modular-css-layout) CSS snippet multi-column -- I used callouts and this snippet for the to-do section * the [dashboard](https://tfthacker…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1spw6ww/obsidian_helped_me_so_much_sharing_vault_setup/oh6jkk7/
- **Why use an MCP server or CLI instead of plain files, and is headless mode coming?** (5 mentions)
  - "Why an MCP server though? I don’t understand why. Obsidian is just a folder containing text files - an MCP server is not needed for that. And why would you favor an MCP server over Obsidians own CLI rven if you were to g…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/19s0g7v9lq7ia/
  - "I don't get it .. what problem it solves? why would use this instead of basic Linux commands?" X https://x.com/gabes_tint/status/2021283473718194193
- **How much does running the AI setup cost in tokens or money?** (2 mentions)
  - "How many tokens does the second brain use?" X https://x.com/mikubeam/status/2068848781073039825
  - "How much money does this take to run." X https://x.com/brwod22/status/2068852441114665290
- **How do you handle recall of old notes and contradicting sources?** (2 mentions)
  - "How do you handle recall on the old stuff? That's where mine falls apart, six months later I know I wrote something but not what I called it." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1weexqm/obsidian_to_manage_almost_all_my_life/p9dcoth/
  - "been running a similar obsidian + AI setup for research, that 80% overlap number is painfully accurate lol, but how does it handle sources that contradict each other? deduplication is the easy part, conflict resolution i…" X https://x.com/0xArasaky/status/2026434149096063264

## Buying signals

- **People switch from Notion, Evernote or Joplin to Obsidian after watching tutorials** (16 mentions)
  - "a Really Underated channel, keep it up man, you inspired me to switch from notion to obsidian in may, and now i have my system 100x Better because of the Possibilities with AI agent, and most important my files, are mine…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2i6UsQG1k&lc=UgzTftHWZOh99rKxb6t4AaABAg
  - "I accidentally found your youtube video. What you have just shown to me is a life changer, before this video I used obsidian as just a fancy text editor, but after watching this video I'm facinated, I am just a newbie, b…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3R3uS0sQ4&lc=UgxFAR2Xt2b0wvTI1nB4AaABAg
- **Viewers plan to adopt Obsidian and build their own vault after seeing the CEO's workflow** (14 mentions)
  - "insta subbed! This is very interesting friend. I will look into obsidian and setting my own up. I am currently in the mind of setting up my own server with my old pc and hopefully run my own Ai? Along with my own media w…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa9td4oe7k&lc=UgwO-MBxcVty_DRcyAx4AaABAg
  - "I just know what to learn as a researchers this is one of tool I need to learn before persuing my research officially. And you are my fav instructor!!" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsytBlAdJK4&lc=UgyRkm7wgDtYo4pZaAN4AaABAg
- **Users want to try the CLI and agent integrations right away** (7 mentions)
  - "My openclaw bot is going to be so happy! 🦞" X https://x.com/rozhkov_/status/2021256791418384677
  - "Hook that baby up to Codex/Claude Code and let her rip!" X https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2021254834838511749
- **People adopt the free CEO vault and skills instead of paying for setup help** (2 mentions)
  - "This is f*cking gold, the CEO of Obsidian put his own second brain on GitHub for free and people still build theirs from zero 7 free repos from the Obsidian team: -> kepano obsidian (by kepano) https://t.co/lT5QtPucOn th…" X https://x.com/rvaniaaaa/status/2119056971298980112
  - "steph ango, the ceo of obsidian, quietly uploaded his entire second brain to github. his vault, his theme, his colors, his 40-question yearly review. all free. and people are still opening a blank obsidian window like th…" X https://x.com/mojeskoqq/status/2119186649284583820
- **Users pay for Obsidian Sync and business accounts to support the team** (1 mention)
  - "Obsidian Sync, Catalist, and business accounts. It is a fantastic app that I use daily, which is the primary reason I pay for Obsidian Sync. There are other sync methods, but I want to support the team if I can." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xntsmz/obsidian_is_a_really_fantastic_apphow_is_it/
- **Obsidian is free unless you want sync** (1 mention)
  - "Obsidian is free unless you want sync." TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
- **A one-time catalyst license feels good as support for the project** (1 mention)
  - "As one small note about the paid features (mentioned @ 1:50), a $25 catalyst license, which lasts for a lifetime, simply feels good supporting the project and gives you early access to new features." YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hvkv_I8QDE&lc=Ugz9_eKFXHMXidcSowF4AaABAg

## Compared with other brands

- **Versus Notion: Obsidian is local and simple, Notion just works across devices without paid sync** (11 mentions)
  - "So what does it do? ))) like really. I test Obsidian for a couple of days useless tool the same as Notion." TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
  - "Notion slander?" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
- **Versus a plain markdown folder plus Claude, Obsidian is the human browsing layer** (6 mentions)
  - "i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/
  - "Obsidian is for people who enjoy the theater of organization over the reality of it." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/19s15fhtoyvsy/
- **Versus neovim, Dropbox and other free alternatives** (4 mentions)
  - "I use Dropbox and Skills. You dont need obsidian" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
  - "wat - but there is a thing called neovim and it’s free" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
- **Versus Apple Notes, which some find better natively for finding notes** (3 mentions)
  - "How to use Obsidian as a COMPLETE beginner. when i say im a beginner i mean i dont get how to use it at all. I'm really just starting my journey of note taking and before i downloaded Obsidian i used apple notes...yea. i…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1v6dnh0/how_to_use_obsidian_as_a_complete_beginner/
  - "Can I use apple notes instead of Obsidian?" X https://x.com/NiklasAnzinger/status/2068892074083262681
- **Versus NotebookLM as a research and learning filter** (3 mentions)
  - "this was a tough listen, 40% explaining the problem + what NotebookLM/Obsidian already do. 20% sudden self-promotion. 10% technics 30% pure repetition. By the end I was exhausted by the over-sped AI voice. no wonder he’s…" X https://x.com/LeCoupableBrave/status/2026483263913508929
  - "the deduplication logic here is the real unlock. most 'learning' is just a dopamine loop from hearing the same 20% of a topic in different accents. using notebooklm as a filter before it hits obsidian is high-tier info h…" X https://x.com/Thewarlordai/status/2026501836988104799
- **Versus Evernote and Joplin as previous note apps** (3 mentions)
  - "Can it replace Evernote." TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
  - "I use evernote" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
- **Versus Hermes, seen as a simpler AI setup** (3 mentions)
  - "anything but using Hermes agent" TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796
  - "Dunno if you have given Hermes a try. I think it automatically achieves what you're doing here. Curious to know your thoughts on that." YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa9td4oe7k&lc=Ugz9ulYgoWeaItcYg1x4AaABAg

## What people want next

- **Share sample vaults, folder structures and dashboard how-tos** (11 mentions)
  - "Dude give us a tutorial for this set up. It is absolutely beautiful. Best one I've ever seen." Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xj38rj/obsidian_is_changing_my_life/19rvd2cbfr2ud/
  - "i am going to try and make a sample vault + a how to" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xj38rj/obsidian_is_changing_my_life/19rvus8jc5bms/
- **Make the CLI work headless without the app running, with Sync and emoji-path support** (6 mentions)
  - "This is awesome! Have to say “Obsidian CLI requires the Obsidian app to be running” is still a bit of a downer. Still very useful, don’t get me wrong. But this would be 200% better if it would work headless as well. Is t…" X https://x.com/CoenJacobs/status/2021252503711461474
  - "This is a great start, but I really need this to work on a headless Linux VM and (a) not require the Obsidian app; and (b) it needs to support Obsidian Sync…" X https://x.com/afalk/status/2021727743092654332
- **Provide beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorials and explain basics like hashtags** (4 mentions)
  - "How to use Obsidian as a COMPLETE beginner. when i say im a beginner i mean i dont get how to use it at all. I'm really just starting my journey of note taking and before i downloaded Obsidian i used apple notes...yea. i…" Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1v6dnh0/how_to_use_obsidian_as_a_complete_beginner/
  - "Would be nice of u said why u do the hash tags ans things" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsytBlAdJK4&lc=UgwA5EBis8_zUzQGuXx4AaABAg
- **Show concrete results of the Claude Cowork workflow and how it helped income** (2 mentions)
  - "you should show what it literally has done for you . I cannot figure out if this is actually useful or a waste of time based on this video" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa9td4oe7k&lc=UgyqRA8cJA6dzHmSWYp4AaABAg
  - "How did it directly help your income?" X https://x.com/anthony_ranaudo/status/2090949714698960956
- **Keep Obsidian simple and avoid over-complicating setups** (2 mentions)
  - "Obsidian is free unless you want sync." TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@eli.cottcr/video/7696269916294499597
  - "Your setup is awesome. The problem with most of these systems, especially the guys pushing second brains, is that they don't even have a first brain to begin with. So everybody ends up getting lost in the sauce. Thank yo…" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2i6UsQG1k&lc=UgztIXwESwLE1ty68954AaABAg
- **Support rendered DataView content and on-the-fly layout editing in the CLI** (2 mentions)
  - "How about getting the rendered contents of a document that contains DataView / DataViewJS??????" X https://x.com/pedramamini/status/2021460128344703233
  - "Hell yeah, love to see it. Is there a way to edit layouts on the fly? I see ways to save, load, and delete workspaces, but not to edit them on the fly. If it’s not currently available that’s my main request, this is all …" X https://x.com/RobertHaisfield/status/2021251966177771554
- **Provide a local, private way to run the AI workflow** (2 mentions)
  - "Because: privacy. Give me a local way to do that, and I’m all for it." X https://x.com/rolfvb/status/2068854890194182596
  - "I would love to see a setup guide for this using local LLM instead of Claude… Gemma + x under ollama" X https://x.com/Lobo67383079/status/2068818893708419355

## Quotes

> i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff and ui. the alternative that i have been using (and really enjoying it) is just pointing all my claude sessions to a local folder, and telling claude, "treat this folder like obsi…
> -- u/Parking-Beyond4499 on Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlm85t/i_dont_understand_all_this_claude_obsidian/

> The very concept of a “second brain” is just a marketing gimmick from grifty content creators. Obsidian is an app for creating and managing markdown files, there’s no wrong way to use it.
> -- u/marktron3k on Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xo177j/dont_let_ai_manage_your_second_brain/

> Not OP but: I have severe ADHD and having a place where I can put all my thoughts for later when my mind is racing is amazing. Linking notes is like therapy to my brain. It literally made me calmer, more organized and less confused.
> -- u/x_wbmr_x on Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1xj38rj/obsidian_is_changing_my_life/19rv8hbd8m2hw/

> People who use “second brains” are productivity larping and ship nothing. It’s catnip for midwits
> -- @thedripfed on X, https://x.com/thedripfed/status/2068889477372690710

> The only thing I hate about Obsidian is that they won’t charge me a monthly subscription for it, it’s so good!
> -- @scotups on X, https://x.com/scotups/status/2022020806415724641

> LOL can we please stop pretending that connecting claude to obsidian creates a second brain? 💀 a pretty graph of markdown files doesn't fix stale data, conflicting facts or context rot
> -- @norab18 on TikTok, https://www.tiktok.com/@datascibykashi/video/7694006912563563796