An unofficial home for the obsessed

Obsidianist

/əbˈsɪdiənɪst/ noun — a person delightfully obsessed with Obsidian.

Your thoughts live on your machine. Plain text. Lightning fast. Readable by humans and the machines we now think alongside. We're building the place where that obsession becomes a craft.

No spam. One whisper when it drops. Your spot in line is saved the moment you join.

The obsession

Your second brain shouldn't live in someone else's cloud your own machine.

  • 01 It's local-first. It opens instantly, even on a plane, even offline.
  • 02 It's plain Markdown. No lock-in. No format that dies when a startup does.
  • 03 It's yours. Twenty years from now, it's still a folder of text files you own.

A second brain

Notes are neurons.
Links are thought.

One note is a fact. Two linked notes are an idea. A thousand of them, connected, become a graph that thinks back. Move your cursor — watch the network lean toward you.

That web you see isn't decoration. It's what your knowledge actually looks like.

Markdown × LLM

The most LLM-ready knowledge you can own.

Markdown is just text with intention. Git diffs it cleanly. Humans read it at a glance. And every large language model on Earth speaks it natively — so your notes aren't just storage, they're fuel for whatever you build next.

Local files in, intelligence out. No export. No API lock-in. No permission slip.

Why LLMs prefer Markdown

Your notes aren't just storage. They're fuel.

01

Semantic hierarchy

# headings and - bullets hand the model a clean map of what's a section and what's a sub-point.

02

Clean code separation

Fenced ``` blocks wall off code from prose, so the model never confuses instructions with the thing it's writing.

03

Tables, not chaos

Markdown tables give rows, columns, and relationships — effortless to read versus messy space-separated text.

04

Pre-training bias

Models are soaked in Markdown — every README, every doc. It's a native, instantly recognizable language to them.

05

Emphasis that lands

Bold and italics let you spotlight the rules that matter — and it's token-efficient, so it's cheaper too.

Learn from the obsessed

You don't need 200 plugins.
You need the right ten minutes.

Most people bounce off Obsidian because they over-build on day one. The obsessed do the opposite: a tiny, ruthless setup — then they just write. Here's the one-time setup, and the tricks that took us years to learn.

The one-time setup

  1. Make one vault. A single folder for everything. Resist the urge to split.
  2. Turn on Daily Notes + Templates (core plugins). One note a day, one template, done.
  3. Learn three hotkeys: quick switcher, new note, and insert link. That's 90% of the speed.
  4. Link, don't file. Drop [[wikilinks]] instead of nesting folders. Let the graph form.
  5. Add Dataview later. Once you have notes, it turns your vault into a living database.

Power tips the obsessed swear by

Build MOCs, not folders.A "Map of Content" note that links out beats a deep folder tree, every time.
Atomic notes win.One idea per note. Small notes link together into big thinking.
Capture in the daily note.Friction kills habits. Throw everything into today, refine later.
Read your backlinks.The "Linked mentions" pane surfaces connections you forgot you made.

The full obsidianist setup — every plugin, template, and trick, plus AI wired into your vault — drops to the waitlist first.

What "obsidian" means

Molten rock, cooled fast,
becomes glass sharp enough to cut.

Obsidian is born from a volcano — lava that cooled so quickly it never formed crystals, just a dark, glassy edge. Ancient hands knapped it into the sharpest blades on the planet.

Pressure makes glass. Obsession makes mastery.

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What you'll get — once we open the doors.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions that take you from "I have notes" to "I have a system that thinks."

Coming soon

YouTube

Workflows, plugins, and over-the-shoulder builds. The obsession, on screen.

Coming soon

AI apps, built with Claude

Real tools wired into your vault. Watch them get made — then make your own.

Coming soon

The doors open once. The obsessed get the key first.