Obsidian Bases Turns Notion Slow-Motion


Obsidian just released Bases.

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It's insane.

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It's the most most hyped I've been in over two years.

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I have a FULL walkthrough for you:

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​Obsidian Bases: The Notion Killer? (Offline, Local, Fast) »​

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I am covering everything about Bases, AI, and Bases+AI in the LYT Workshop.

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I'm doing wild things with Bases and Dynamic Links.

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I've set up a view where any active note I am in with dynamically show me all related links. And not just in a zero-context list, but in three-dimensional detail.

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It's helping me write the best book possible!

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I mean, look at how it's powering my HUGE writing effort on the Linking Your Thinking book (ETA Spring 2027)


If you can use Bases well, it will enrich your entire writing and thinking experience. Look at how this author note for Ursula K. Le Guin just pops!


And with the help of Claude Code, I went from having manual images for β‰ˆ 40 people to images for over 100.

I'm quite certain this is the first time in history that Arnold and Bach were sharing the same screen real estate, right next to Beethoven and Bill Russell, right next to Amy Tan and Aldous Huxley.

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I don't mean to knock Notion but it's slow-motion.

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With the addition of Bases, Obsidian is now the clear number one best personal, digital, thinking environment of our time.

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Tidbits

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​How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO »​

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I've experienced AI Context Rot a few times. The context field it's going off of gets so tangled it gets really dumb and frustrating. I'm getting better at identifying the point of diminishing return and then starting a new chat.

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Here's my first real Tweet in ages. It's a 5-minute video on Bases. Watch this before or after the YouTube video for more details.

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Stay connected,

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Nick

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P.S... Learn everything about Bases in my FULL video.

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