Vision

This was originally going to be titled "Why'd I Make This" but as I started thinking it through I realized it was more a vision of what I hope this platform can enable.

Every thriving community requires an ecosystem to survive. For Obsidian, that ecosystem has traditionally been defined by plugins, software that transforms the simple Markdown editor into a powerhouse platform. Today, we are seeing a new evolution: the intersection of personal knowledge and AI agents. Obsidian is no longer just where you write; it is the "Context Layer" for your LLMs.

However, there is an obvious ecosystem that hasn't been fully cataloged or harnessed: the Vault itself. In the sense that when we have a synergy of folder structures, CSS snippets, Dataview queries, and plugin configurations, these things come together to create new systems that are being customized for specific purposes every day.

The current system of sharing these things is fragmented and hard to keep up with, thus I want to introduce a sort of protocol for uploading these, including hub.md (a single markdown file with frontmatter metadata that Obsidian reads natively) and appropriate topics and tags on GitHub to facilitate indexing. Notion has built up its commercial success very partially thanks to its templates marketplace, and I believe Obsidian is about to do it 10x better.

By formalizing the Vault Ecosystem, we aren't just helping people take better notes. I think we're solidifying Obsidian's place in the new LLM-driven world and of course making it easier to share your rendition of Andrej Karpathy's Second Brain lol.