Obsidian Help

Welcome to the official Obsidian Help site, where you can find tips and guides on how to use Obsidian. For API documentation visit the Obsidian Developer Docs.

Get started

Learn the basics of note-taking with Obsidian:

1. Download and install Obsidian
2. Create a vault
3. Create your first note
4. Link notes
5. Import notes
6. Sync your notes across devices

Extend Obsidian

With thousands of plugins and themes, you can shape Obsidian to fit your way of thinking.

• Core plugins
  • Choose which built-in features of Obsidian you want to turn on or off.
• Community plugins
  • Enable more workflows and capabilities with features built by Obsidian users.
• Themes
  • Customize the look and feel of Obsidian with community-made color schemes.
• CSS snippets
  • Make small changes to the interface on top of your Obsidian theme.
• Web Clipper
  • Highlight web pages and save content to Obsidian using our browser extension.
• Obsidian CLI
  • Control Obsidian from your terminal using the command line interface.

Add-on services

• Obsidian Sync
  • A safe and secure way to synchronize your notes across any device and OS.
• Obsidian Publish
  • Publish your notes as a wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.

Contribute

If you find any mistakes or missing information on this site, you can contribute improvements and translations via the GitHub repo.

If you want to contribute to Obsidian financially, consider a Catalyst license which offers early access to beta versions, or a Commercial license to show your organization's support.

See the Credits to get to know all the amazing people who make Obsidian possible.