This Is the Best Markdown and Note-Taking App You've Never Heard Of
The best writing tool is the one you have on you. For me, that's my smartphone, but it's no good without the right app. After searching high and low, I finally found an app that just about does it all. If you haven't yet heard of Obsidian, it may be the best note taking app for you, too.
What Is Obsidian?
Obsidian describes itself as your "second brain." It's one of quite a few "personal knowledge base" or "knowledge management apps" that take a different approach to organizing your notes. Obsidian allows internal linking between notes, searching through notes, and an interactive graph that shows the connections between notes.
If that sounds like a lot to you, I agree. For me, that description was more off-putting than exciting and a reason to glance over Obsidian in the Play Store. In my opinion, many note-taking apps are unnecessary. I merely wanted a simple app for writing, but once you download Obsidian and get it running, it's actually pretty great for doing just that.
While I'm focusing on the Android version, Obsidian is available for basically any platform you can think of, whether that's on your PC, tablet, or phone. I use the Android app, but the mobile version of Obsidian is largely the same on the iPhone and iPad as well. Now, let's get into what makes Obsidian so good.
Notes Are Saved As Accessible Plain Text Files
Most writing apps hide your local data from you. Samsung Notes, for example, comes pre-installed on my Galaxy Z Fold 5, but I can only back up notes to either Samsung's cloud or Microsoft's. I can also only access my notes using that one app, meaning I'm locked in.
Many popular alternatives are similar, be it iA Writer or Jotterpad. Yet as someone who writes for a living, I don't want to be dependent on any one app or cloud service continuing to exist for me to access my work. And you don't have to, either.
Obsidian saves all notes as plain text files in an easily accessible folder on your phone, which you can then back up in
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