# Benefits of Obsidian - Free - Extremely fast - Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS) - Mobile support - Data stored locally - You own the data (great for security and privacy) - Works offline - Tons of awesome features for Knowledge Management - Links, backlinks, tags and nested tags, global/local graph views, automatic outlines, embedding, and MUCH more! - Support for visualizations (infinite canvas) - Open specification: [[JSON Canvas]] - Markdown - Plain text - De-facto standard - Open and portable data format - Supported by all text editors - Highly customizable - Huge library of plugins and themes - Possible to create your own - Assign hotkeys for anything - Huge and friendly community (killer 'feature'!) - Mobile support - Various ways to publish and sync notes (e.g., Obsidian Publish, Obsidian Sync, etc) - Can be used for task management, basic and advanced, with or without plugins ## Related - [[Reasons to use Obsidian]] - [[Obsidian Starter Kit]]