What is the future of Obsidian? The new Obsidian CEO, Stephan Ango (@kepano), talks about why he joined the Obsidian team and what he wants to do next. I'm Nicole van der Hoeven, and today I'm joined by my friend, Andy Polaine, to find out what's on the horizon for our favourite note-taking app. // TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introducing Stephan Ango 01:38 Introducing Andy Polaine 02:54 Other tools used before Obsidian 09:20 Notational Velocity and futureproofness 12:00 Dealing with Obsidian clones 15:00 What's Obsidian bad at? 17:09 How plugins transform an app 22:15 Joining the Obsidian team 29:00 Stephan's background in building tools 31:50 Obsidian roadmap, metadata 36:22 Growing on Obsidian team 39:27 Enshittification due to venture capital 41:11 Sharing, Sync, Publish 47:02 Task management and prioritization 50:08 AI in Obsidian 56:40 Accessibility in Obsidian 58:25 Tags vs links? 01:04:15 Message to the community --- // ABOUT STEPHAN Site: Mastodon: @kepano Obsidian site: // ABOUT ANDY Site: Mastodon: @apolaine YouTube: @andypolaine61 // ABOUT NICOLE Site: Mastodon: @nicole My travel YouTube channel: k6 YouTube channel: // APPS I USE - Obsidian: - Readwise: - Shortform: - Reclaim: - Snipd: Napkin: // GEAR // WANT TO SUPPORT ME? ❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: ☕ Buy me a coffee: ⭐ Buy Obsidian for Everyone, my beginner course on Obsidian: Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: