Obsidian
Obsidian is a personal knowledge management and note-taking application built by co-founders Shida Li and Erica Xu, who met at the University of Waterloo and launched the app in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It stores notes as local Markdown files in a user-owned vault rather than a proprietary cloud format, an approach the company markets as durable and free of vendor lock-in. Obsidian is self-funded by user revenue rather than venture capital, and by 2023 had grown to roughly a million users with an active third-party plugin ecosystem.
X / obsdmdNotable people
People map
Current peopleNotable public-facing people we cover. Grouped by public roles, not reporting lines; this is not a complete staff directory.
Leadership
- Steph Ango
Chief Executive Officer
Tools
- Obsidianobsidian.md
Local-first Markdown knowledge base with a graph view, a plugin ecosystem, and no vendor lock-in.
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