Obsidian

Obsidian is a local-first, plain-text note-taking app built around a vault of Markdown files connected by wikilinks. It is the primary tool powering this knowledge base.

Workflow

• Cmd + O then Shift + Enter to create a new note
• Cmd + T to apply a template
• See Obsidian Markdown Cheat Sheet for syntax reference

Search

• QMD — on-device search engine for Markdown notes, combining BM25 full-text, vector semantic search, and LLM re-ranking, all running locally

Publishing

• Obsidian Publish — the official hosted publishing service, used for this vault
• Quartz — fast static-site generator that turns a Markdown vault into a website, popular as a self-hosted alternative

References

• Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL GUIDE + SETUP) — YouTube tutorial that inspired the workflow section