A local, folder-based Personal Knowledge Management application using durable data structures. This application here!
Obsidian is a note taking & personal knowledge management (PKM) application that utilizes a folder-based, plaintext backend that lives on your computer. It uses Durable File Types and allows for no cloud-dependencies, and is therefore (theoretically) your “final destination” for PKM. There are other Obsidian Use Cases, but you’ve not (yet) made those work.
It’s goal is to give you a permanent, durable home for your body of notes. It’s a competitor to Notion in some ways - and will be what these notes are housed in eventually. It utilizes Markdown and YAML, and lets you embed local files into your notes. It’s got a robust plugin system and is incredibly highly configurable and modular. The aim is to keep it as lean as possible while giving you the tools to do anything.
It has built-in support for Mermaid, and a great Excalidraw plug-in.
It has over 1000 plug-ins, including the incredible Dataview Plug-in (which should become a standard part of Obsidian, really). Although I decided to Only Use Obsidian Plug-ins That Retain Portability.