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  "slug": "obsidian",
  "name": "Obsidian",
  "description": "Obsidian is a private, local-first knowledge management application that uses Markdown files for note-taking. It is designed as a 'second brain,' allowing users to create complex networks of bidirectional links and visualize them through an interactive graph view.",
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  "baiScore": 76,
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  "category": "Software",
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      "slug": "bear",
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  "parentBrand": null,
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T05:33:41.385+00:00",
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    "website": "https://obsidian.md",
    "founded": "2020",
    "headquarters": "Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Dynalist Inc.)",
    "pricing_model": "Freemium (Free for personal use; paid for Sync, Publish, and Commercial licenses)",
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    "target_markets": "Knowledge workers, researchers, developers, students, and privacy-conscious professionals.",
    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
    "funding_stage": "Not publicly available",
    "subcategory": "Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)"
  },
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      "Manual Folders and Markdown Files: Managing notes and ideas across a hierarchy of folders or text files without specialized linking software.",
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      "private notes app for researcher",
      "google docs alternative for privacy",
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