Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by colordrops on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:48AM (#33192628)

Is Obsidian open source? I couldn't figure it out from a quick perusal of the site.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by kepano on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:54AM (#33192732)

Obsidian is not open source but it uses plain text local files with Markdown support, so you are not locked in. All plugins for Obsidian are required to be open source. Also Obsidian contains no tracking/analytics, and the Sync product is E2E encrypted.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by wojciechpolak on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:47PM (#33193503)

How do you know that it doesn't contain tracking/analytics without the source code?

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by kepano on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:32PM (#33194070)

You can inspect network requests and see that nothing communicates to Obsidian servers. Since the app is Electron based you can also open up developer tools and unminify the JS code if you want to actually look at the code.

You can also check out the privacy policy here: https://obsidian.md/privacy

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by julienreszka on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:11PM (#33193817)

you don't

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