Obsidian

Obsidian is a free app for private note-taking that allows users to organize thoughts, create links between notes, visualize relationships, and customize their workspace with plugins. It offers secure syncing, instant publishing capabilities, and a community for support and collaboration.

"URL: https://obsidian.md/\\nDirect: Yes" "The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.\n\nYour thoughts are yours. Obsidian stores notes privately on your device, so you can access them quickly, even offline. No one else can read them, not even us. Your mind is unique. With thousands of plugins and themes, you can shape Obsidian to fit your way of thinking. Your knowledge should last. Obsidian uses open file formats, so you're never locked in. You own your data for the long term.\n\nFree without limits.\n\n## Spark ideas.\n\nFrom personal notes to journaling, knowledge bases, and project management, Obsidian gives you the tools to come up with ideas and organize them.\n\n Links Create connections between your notes. Link anything and everything — ideas, people, places, books, and beyond. Invent your own personal Wikipedia. \n\nIn Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:\n\n- [[I thin]]\n- I think therefore I am\n- Just think about it\n- Thinking, Fast and SlowBooks/\n- The ThingMovies/\n\nHe argues that doubting requires thinking, and therefore, the act of thinking confirms his existence.\n\n Graph Visualize the relationships between your notes. Find hidden patterns in your thinking through a visually engaging and interactive graph.\n\n Lecture 1\n\nRationalists\n\n- Reason and innate knowledge → acquire knowledge\n- Fundamental truths and principles can be known independent of experience\n- A priori reasoning\n- Reason and deduction\n\nEmpiricists\n\n- Experience and sensory perception → acquire knowledge\n- All knowledge is derived from experience and observation of the external world\n- A posteriori reasoning\n\nCogito, ergo sum\n\nIn Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:\n\nI think therefore I am\n\nHe argues that doubting requires thinking, and therefore, the act of thinking confirms his existence.\n\nPhilosophers\n\nCommunity plugins\n\nCalendar by Liam Cain\n\nCalendar view of your daily notes.\n\nKanban by Matthew Meyers\n\nMarkdown-backed kanban boards.\n\nDataview by Michael Brenan\n\nAdvanced queries for the data-obsessed.\n\nOutliner by Viacheslav Slinko\n\nWork with your lists.\n\nTasks by Martin Schenck and Clare Macrae\n\nTrack tasks across your entire vault.\n\n## Sync securely.\n\nAccess your notes on any device, secured with end-to-end encryption. \n\n Fine-grained control. Decide which files and preferences you want to sync to which devices. Version history. Easily track changes between revisions, with one year of version history for every note. Collaboration. Work with your team on shared files without compromising your private data.\n\n## Publish instantly.\n\nTurn your notes into an online wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.\n\n Seamless editing Publish your notes instantly from the Obsidian app, and make it easy for readers to explore your web of ideas. Customization Control the look and feel of your site with themes, custom domains, password protection, and more. Optimized for performance Obsidian Publish sites are fast, mobile-friendly, and optimized for SEO, no configuration required. \n\n## It's your time to shine.\n\nGet Obsidian\n\nJoin us on Discord Get help, ask questions, meet other Obsidian users, and learn about their setup. Discussion forum Post feature requests, report bugs, and explore in-depth discussions about knowledge management."

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