The plan for Obsidian is to never grow beyond 10-12 people, never take VC funding, never collect personal data or analytics.

Continue building with the assumption that software is ephemeral, files matter more than apps. Use formats that are open and durable.

See our manifesto:
https://obsidian.md/about

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@kepano I appreciate that you use open formats.

I know Obsidian supports a few useful, non-standard additions to markdown, such as callouts and embeds. It would be helpful if there was explicit documentation for these syntaxes. That would aide in interoperability with other apps and formats.

If I remember correctly, Obsidian uses markdown-it internally, so if you linked to a plugin, that would be even more helpful.

@binyamin Here's the documentation on that topic
https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Obsidian+Flavored+Markdown

I admit it could be a bit more detailed, will polish that up

Obsidian Flavored Markdown - Obsidian Help

Obsidian strives for maximum capability without breaking any existing formats. As a result, we use a combination of flavors of Markdown. Obsidian supports CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and La…

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