Obsidian in public beta

Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 6, 2020 at 10:10 AM

Erica Xu recently posted some reflections on their work on he Dynalist forum. Elsewhere, she has also mentioned that some work she and Shida do on Obsidian may eventually be refactored to Dynalist—I believe this would include the WYSIWYG editor they promised to provide for Obsidian and, the one for Dynalist. Makes sense. I’m impressed by the incredible focus and output these two developers do. (All while not bothering to continually tell the world how brilliant they are—unlike some we’ve seen.)

Erica’s comment:

>As many of you have heard, for the past few months we have been working on the side on a new thing called Obsidian 15. Obsidian public beta was launched two days ago, and we figure we should let you guys know about it too.
>Obsidian is quite different from Dynalist, as it’s a knowledge base that’s works on top of a local folder of Markdown files. It’s also not an outliner (as in you can’t zoom, expand, or collapse). The use case of Obsidian is more about deliberately writing down and revisiting notes, more than quick and friction-less brainstorming and capturing. Obsidian values connections more, whereas Dynalist values structures more.
>If you’re interested in Obsidian, feel free to check it out! Its use case does overlap with Dynalist a bit, but not much, and we’ve heard many people having successes with using both for different purposes. As for Dynalist, we will develop and maintain it as usual; we don’t expect much to change.