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Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01

WYSIWYG
Extended-Markdown-based
help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices they do have a device sync mechanism
it watches the filesystem and if you change anything it gets automatically updated on UI
help.obsidian.md/links#Link+to+a+block+in+a+note you can set (forcibly scoped) IDs to blocks. But it's not exposed on WYSIWYG?

Bad:

forced ID scoping on the tree as usual
no browser-only editor, it's just a local app apparently:
obsidian.md/publish they have a publish function, but you can't see the generated websites with JavaScript turned off. And they charge you 8 dollars / month for that shit. Lol.
- folders are not articles, you can't see them as as page
- HTML export only as third party plugin:
  - github.com/KosmosisDire/obsidian-webpage-export
  - www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/pf3cw6/any_plugin_to_export_an_entire_vault_as_html_pages/
  Possibly in self conflict with them wanting people to pay 8 dollars / month for their hosting? Crazy.
block elements like images and tables cannot have captions?
- forum.obsidian.md/t/adding-caption-to-images/16431
- forum.obsidian.md/t/captions-for-tables-in-markdown/17240
they kind of have synonyms: help.obsidian.md/aliases but does it work on source code?

Some Obsidian digital gardens that would fit well with OurBigBook:

publish.obsidian.md/discretecs/START+HERE

Figure 1.
Obsidian demo
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