Why Obsidian
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Why Obsidian
The short version: you own the files.
Every note you write in Obsidian is a plain .md file sitting on your hard drive. Open it in any text editor. Put it in git. Copy it anywhere. If Obsidian disappears tomorrow, your notes are still there.
This matters more than it sounds. When your AI has access to your vault, it needs to read files — real files, not files locked inside a database some company controls. Obsidian’s local-first approach is what makes the AI integration possible.
The other reason is markdown. Markdown is plain text with lightweight formatting. It’s been around since 2004 and will outlive every proprietary format currently on the market. When you write in markdown, you’re future-proofing your thinking.