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  • Before Obsidian: A Short History of Networked Knowledge and Markup

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    Before Obsidian: A Short History of Networked Knowledge and Markup

    Obsidian did not emerge from nowhere. This article traces the decades of ideas behind it, from Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Ted Nelson’s Xanadu to the web, wikis, knowledge management, and Markdown. It shows how Obsidian combines networked thinking, backlinks, transclusion, and plain-text durability into a practical personal knowledge system.

  • Hello world!

    Hello world!

    I have been blog­ging since the sum­mer of 2023 at the domain https://ileif.de, exclu­sive­ly in Ger­man, cov­er­ing top­ics like automa­tion, Obsid­i­an, Apple short­cuts, and all that inter­est­ing com­put­er stuff. With this addi­tion­al blog, I will start post­ing in Eng­lish on https://en.ileif.de, main­ly cov­er­ing top­ics that I have already dis­cussed on my Ger­man site. How­ev­er, my…