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TLDR

Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores your notes as plain text files on your own computer.

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Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores your notes as plain text files on your own computer. This repository is not the app's source code, it serves two purposes: it hosts official release downloads for Obsidian, and it acts as the directory that Obsidian uses to display community-made plugins and themes inside the app. When you open Obsidian's plugin browser or theme store, the app reads from the JSON files in this repo to build its list of available options. For plugins, it pulls the name, author, and description from the community-plugins.json file, and when you click install, Obsidian fetches the actual plugin files from that plugin's own GitHub release page. Themes work similarly via the community-css-theme.json file. If you are a developer who has built a plugin or visual theme for Obsidian and wants it listed in the official browser, you submit it here by opening a pull request, adding a small entry to the appropriate JSON file with your plugin's ID, name, author, and a link to your GitHub repository. The Obsidian team then reviews the submission against their developer policies before approving it. This repo does not accept bug reports or general questions. Issues about the core Obsidian app should go to the Obsidian community forums, and issues with a specific plugin belong in that plugin's own repository. It is maintained by the Obsidian team (obsidianmd) and has no primary programming language since it is mostly configuration and data files.

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