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Erica Xu

Obsidian 1.0 — A brand new look, a fresh way to browse, a new start

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1.0 brings a complete redesign to Obsidian. The new design is not only more beautiful to look at, it's also more robust, accessible, and easier to theme.

Plus, a new way to browse your second brain: tabs. Tabs make it easier to explore many ideas at once.

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Erica Xu
Cofounder of Obsidian here. We're excited to announce that Obsidian 1.0 is live! 1.0 brings a complete redesign to desktop and mobile. It's not only nicer to look at, but also much easier to use and theme. We've also prioritized using more native OS features for menus, windows and many details. 1.0 also introduces a new way to browse your second brain: tabs. Tabs make it easier to explore many ideas at once. Tabs can also be stacked so you can glide through your thoughts with ease. There are tons of improvements and fixes, which you can explore in the release notes. We're happy to answer any questions you have. Obsidian 1.0 release notes: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsi... Thank you to everyone for your support and patience! We're finally dropping the "beta" label and we hope it's been worth the wait. Special credits go to Stephan Ango (@kepano) for the redesign and Liam Cain for tirelessly polishing this release.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
@erica_xu @kepano Massive congrats! This is a gorgeous redesign and such a big milestone to hit version 1.0.
Michael Lee
@kepano @erica_xu Many thanks to the team for all the work that went into this milestone. Loving all the refinements and the thoughtful direction y'all are taking.
Jeff Brown
@kepano @erica_xu I used Obsidian every day. Looking forward to this redesign. Thank you!
Stephan Ango
@erica_xu @anthilemoon Thanks Anne-Laure!
Ric Raftis
(@kepano @erica_xu Well done. Congrats. It just keeps getting better and better and is building a remarkable group of people around the PKM in its community. Awesome people.
Nick Milo
If you are a life-long learner, Obsidian might be the thing you always wanted but never knew existed. It is for me.
TfT Hacker
Obsidian is fantastic, along with the people who make it. This is a tool I will use for years and years to come.
Natália Pillar
I've been a user for quite some time and I can safely say that Obsidian completely changed the way I journal, take notes and plan my projects. Love the product and the community and I am thrilled to see the 1.0 live. Congratulations to the team!
Jessy Cormier
I'm happy to see this hit 1.0, congratulations on the journey here and the next phase! Obsidian has really changed how I think, organize and work.
Bora
❤️ Obsidian.
Danny Hatcher 🔎
This is an absolutely incredible app with an amazing community! Definitely my no1 recommendation when people ask me about software.
Christin White
Obsidian is simply the most important tool I have and I absolutely love every last inch of it!
Laurent Cazanove
I'm not exaggerating when saying that if I could only use a single app for work or my personal life, it would be Obsidian. Research, work, creativity, productivity—it has great defaults and insane potential thanks to it's plugins ecosystem. Grats on the 1.0 launch!
Nhan Nguyen
If you don't yet know or haven't tried out Obsidian, do yourself a favor and try it out. - From an old user of RemNote and Logseq, before landing on Obsidian, and so far I had 0 concerns (while previously I would have encountered at least 1 bug per week or even every few days, suffered from data loss, and various other frustrations.
Rose S Pina
Rose Team Click One, (Product Hunt) Hello To All Obsidian Team, Makers, and everyone at Product Hunt. My name is Rose. This is going to be a fun one, I don't even think we know what we're doing on this one? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Michael Wow Really? I was just getting ready to go lay down. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I knew When I seen my e-mail saw that purple crystal looking thing, I knew it had your name all over it. anyway how is everyone? It has a beautiful interface and it's amazing style, and it has a little swag to it. You all really did a great job on this, wow i'm looking at it right now and it's really nice I just have to learn how to use it. Thank you all very much making the online world easier.
Zsolt Viczián
Obsidian is simply one of the best, if not THE best personal knowledge management software on the market today.
dinoDonga
Using Obsidian feels like a forbidden secret. I basically recommended it to anyone close to me
Preslav Rachev
Congrats to the tool that gave my PKM journey a fresh restart, after more than a decade spent in Evernote-land! 🎉 👏 On a more personal note, I have no more reason to put away the book draft I began compiling last year: https://p5v.gumroad.com/l/write-... - I will only need to update all screenshots now 😅
Brandon A. Lewis
I've been an Obsidian user since Sep2020—It's crazy to see how much it has grown. Out of all of the applications I interact with, Obsidian is by far the most essential to my daily life. I just want to thank the team and community for creating so much damn value to people like myself. Cheers to hitting 1.0!
Bram Adams
Undisputedly the greatest piece of software I have ever used.
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
I love using Obsidian to keep track of all my notes and try to bring order to my chaos! Love these new updates!
Christopher Sherrod
Obsidian is one of my favorite apps of all time. Been using it for over a year and it is now a solid version 1 even though it's been working great for the last year in very workable betas. The community is very helpful and the community plugins are amazing, I have 51 plugins installed. The tabs and tab stacks really make organizing easy. And the mobile app on my iPad is a very good companion to the desktop app.
Yongsung Kim
Congrats! I've been using Obsidian v0.15.9. I don't think I have been using Obsidian to its fullest ability (like bi-directional links, knowledge graphs, templates, and a bunch of plugins), but I really like how fast it is to quickly jot down notes, add #tags, see all the notes related to the tags, use some markdowns, and copy a bunch of code snippets into the doc. The new Tabs feature is awesome and the UI is a lot cleaner.