I use it primarily as a recipe book since markdown does that format pretty well.

I migrated from Evernote to Joplin because Evernote started charging. I migrated from Joplin because the sync was problematic and wasn’t working correctly for me.

My biggest uses are my recipe collection, my bookmarks list, and where I keep notes and roadmaps for my personal hobby projects. I don’t use it anywhere even close to its full potential. Links, for example, are nothing that I use and I can’t find a compelling reason to do so. I use almost no formatting either. I do use tags, tho. I really don’t need something with as much power as this has.

As an academic I’ve used it for several years to track my classes, lecture ideas, etc., and more recently keeping a record of media consumption, movies, TV series, and novels.

I’d like to get more out of the data in my vaults but I struggle to grasp many of the most interesting community plugins such as Dataview. I really enjoy using Obsidian but suspect it’s challenging if you lack a programming background.

Using Linux KDE, every file is indexed - including those in my Obsidian notes folder.

Whenever I find a guide, or interesting web page, I use the addon to download it as Markdown - then open Obsidian and edit out any superfluous crud.

So mostly I use it as a repository for things I don’t want to search regularly - guides, tutorials etc.

I have my vault on a Fedora laptop and desktop, iPhone, Android and windows desktop. It also is available online hosted in a gitlab instance

I’m an IT professional. I use obsidian for:

• scratchpad
• daily notes
• writeups
• composing emails
• text manipulation and documentation

I would be completely scuppered without obsidian.

I’ve configured Obsidian Git for sync on all my devices, and only had a couple of merge issues.

I also use it for outstanding tasks, though they tend to get moved in to todoist pretty quickly. I just find it easier to write the tasks mid stream first while I’m thinking them