File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all

in the original skin I had settings that let you tweak the colors

@captbaritone great blog post about it: https://t.co/9vfuLER16c

@captbaritone still missing playback and all the color customization, but you can play with it here: https://t.co/j7rBgtJo0x

somehow @captbaritone revived this Winamp 5 skin I made 21 years ago

the pitch room The Matrix: our hero is sucked into a computer and everything is green Tron Legacy: our hero is sucked into a computer and everything is blue Tron Ares: our hero is sucked into a computer and everything is red

Here's startup time on my phone with Obsidian 1.10.1 — you can access this in Settings > General > Advanced > tap the stopwatch The new load sequence is just initialization + core plugins (165ms), the rest is loaded progressively in the background.

Launch time should be noticeably faster if you have a large vault, especially on older Android devices. For me it's under 500ms on iOS with 17k files.

Use the saw, fear the saw When I learned to use a table saw, my teacher impressed upon me that the machine wants to cut fingers. Fear the saw! Powerful tools can do powerful things. If you want to make handmade wooden furniture you must cut wood. Your desire to have limbs and

lock in, no lock-in

this is the dough recipe I used https://t.co/C96AMAalKS

my greatest fear came true, turns out those home pizza ovens are amazing and you can have excellent pizza whenever you want (okay, not the most circular, but this was my first attempt!)

And yes, the Obsidian Maps plugin works on mobile too

How I use Obsidian https://t.co/iHoGtcTvvK

Just updated my vault template to show how I use the new Maps feature for Obsidian Bases. Super useful for travel planning.

on an earlier episode: https://t.co/VXIsmzVfYu

https://t.co/h33NijaIRy

A fire destroyed the South Korean government's cloud storage system, which had no backups "It is currently working to recover alternative data using any files saved locally on personal computers within the past month, along with emails, official documents and printed records."

So much good stuff in this release.

Since the start we've tried to avoid dependencies in Obsidian. It takes a bit longer to add some features, but it reduces the risk of supply chain attacks, and gives us more control over performance.

AI agents built into cloud apps will always be sub-par compared to state of the art agents that you can use with Obsidian. This is because your Obsidian data is in your control, in plain text formats that are ideal for LLMs to process. You can choose to run any of the