Obsidian is what I was looking for

Published in tooling on Sep 3, 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve been trying to find a way to rewrite a large part, if not all, of the SaaS we’ve been developing for over a decade. Since this task is enormous, involving a lot of technical research and experimentation, I was looking for a tool where I could write notes like blog posts. But beyond that, I wanted these notes to somehow connect if needed, have tags, allow me to easily search for how I thought about something six months ago, include code snippets effortlessly, and overall be very fast and very clean.

Meet Obsidian

At last, something easy, clean and local with a way to be synced across devices!

Additionally, I needed it to serve as a form of 'internal' documentation, as I wanted to document the components I have and exactly how someone can use them. I found all this—and so much more—in Obsidian. And while I’m still very new to it and not using all its capabilities, I’m truly excited about it.

You can even have a fully functional Kanban board—this is just one of the thousands of plugins offered by this open-source tool.

If you're looking for something similar, I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out (a good 10min Youtube video introduction)