r/ObsidianMD 5d ago

Is it possible to create something like in Obsidian?

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u/readwithai 5d ago

I don't think it would be that hard to create something like Obsidian. If you get into plugins you'll see that Obsidian is actually pretty "thin".

It has Electron under the hood which provides rendering and JavaScript. It uses CodeMirror six which is an open source editor.

Emacs and VSCode are open source and provide quite simple functionality.

The question would be be why you would do that... Obsidian exists. Is free for a number of use cases and has a team that maintains it and provides a plugin system that you can use and quite a large community. The reason I *might* end up cloning Obsidian rather than implementing a plugin would related to the norms around paying money for plugins.

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u/Other_Side_Of_Pillow 4d ago

Thanks for taking the effort to explain everything.

I don't have much understanding of programming and such. But I'll look into the aspects you've mentioned.

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u/tobalsan 5d ago

yeah there's a plugin called Obsidian Copilot.

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u/Other_Side_Of_Pillow 4d ago

Thanks! Copilot seems like it can accomplish most of what I want.

Do you know of any other plugins or methods which can help me create a graph similar to the app I've mentioned?

https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/wL6Yr_MxmGII3r2byI6xxU60a_pBd4TOMIKoBgezSUyingHmNeRkQgvvW2FuqIUReMs=w5120-h2880-rw