Obsidian in public beta

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 20, 2020 at 12:36 PM

Insider releases usually come out about a week or less before the public release. Release notes are here:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-9-5-insider-build/7260

The “block linking” (technically it is no such thing) is a step into Kludge Land. As the release notes say—it reduces compatibility with other plain text or markdown editors because it depends on adding characters that other editors cannot parse. So, for example, if one were using Marked 2 to parse and print Obsidian files, then Marked will treat the characters literally.

Professionally, I think this change is a mistake and will be regretted—time will tell—but since it is optional I don’t care. The Roam fans will be skeptical.

Luhmann wrote:
In the latest “insider build” Obsidian has found a way to have block
>level linking and embedding by adding a unique string of characters to
>the end of any linked paragraph. This brings it a step closer to having
>the functionality of Roam, although it still remains a very different
>kind of application.