What is the future of Obsidian? The new Obsidian CEO, Stephan Ango (@kepano), talks about why he joined the Obsidian team and what he wants to do next. I’m Nicole van der Hoeven, and today I’m joined by my friend, Andy Polaine, to find out what’s on the horizon for our favourite note-taking app.
// TIMESTAMPS
00: 00 Introducing Stephan Ango
01: 38 Introducing Andy Polaine
02: 54 Other tools used before Obsidian
09: 20 Notational Velocity and futureproofness
12: 00 Dealing with Obsidian clones
15: 00 What’s Obsidian bad at?
17: 09 How plugins transform an app
22: 15 Joining the Obsidian team
29: 00 Stephan’s background in building tools
31: 50 Obsidian roadmap, metadata
36: 22 Growing on Obsidian team
39: 27 Enshittification due to venture capital
41: 11 Sharing, Sync, Publish
47: 02 Task management and prioritization
50: 08 AI in Obsidian
56: 40 Accessibility in Obsidian
58: 25 Tags vs links?
01: 04: 15 Message to the community
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// ABOUT STEPHAN
Site: /
Mastodon: o
Obsidian site: d
// ABOUT ANDY
Site: m
Mastodon: e
YouTube: 1
// ABOUT NICOLE
Site: m
Mastodon: e
My travel YouTube channel: s
k6 YouTube channel: t
// APPS I USE
– Obsidian: d
– Readwise: e
– Shortform: e
– Reclaim:
// GEAR
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