Switching to Obsidian as My Primary Notes and Writing App

For the last several months I’ve been going back and forth between iA Writer and Obsidian as my notes app on all my devices. Recently I started playing around more with Obsidian and think I’m going to jump in.

The Killer Feature for Me

I think the killer feature for me is the ability to create templates and be able to insert them at will. I have templates for my blog posts, notes, book notes, recipes and several other common notes I end up writing. The ability to launch the command menu, select insert template and pre-populate the common fields is time saving and quite helpful. I use front matter for notes to help with organization and it’s nice to just be able to just insert that as a template.

The Most Important Part

Finally, the most important thing is that like iA Writer, Obsidian just writes plain markdown files. This means that I can just get up and go at any point without any issue and move to another app. If I decide to go back to iA, it’s no big deal, just select all files and copy them back into iA’s directory.

I’m not locked into an app which is what I didn’t want from the start.