Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

I'm used to using a variety of editing software and then manually pushing my notes repo, so the lack of automatic syncing doesn't bother me. In fact, I prefer it. I've been burned by auto-syncing before and it makes me nervous.

I generally need simple things on the go, like checking off an item on a to-do list. Almost built my own mini-markdown viewer/editor to do this myself but glad I didn't as now this mobile app totally solves my issue. Great update, thanks!

Joplin is no slouch and no shade on anyone who uses it, but here's why I am happy I made the switch.

- Backlinks (Linked and Unlinked Mentions) are the super power of Obsidian. (Roam and others can do what I will describe, but I'm not aware that Joplin can.)

  - Being able to see everywhere I linked to my current note in my 1500+ other notes is  super helpful.   Having used Obsidian for over a year,  I couldn't count the amount of helpful connections this has created and news trains of thought this has led me down. 

  - Unlinked mentions takes this to the next level since I can take a note that is where I have developed a core idea that I want to propagate throughout my thinking.  By taking that core note and naming it properly or giving it an alias, in Unlinked mentions I often find dozens and dozens of places where I interact with this idea as a tangent before I developed this core note.  (And sometimes after, too.)  So when I return to ideas that are still in the sandbox and trying to be figured out, Unlinked Mentions sometimes lets me connect the new intellectual "key" to a "lock" that I had been frustrated with in the past.      

 - Obsidian's links and files work are consistent with Markdown spec, so they're more portable than with Joplin.  I can easily move from Obsidian to most other platforms, but when leaving Joplin, tags don't always migrate very well.  

- The Table Editor is fantastic for creating and manipulating tables in Markdown.

- The Dataview plugin that allows you to dynamically generate tables based on metadata fields you create for each note. I find this particularly useful for notes on other works.

- You can Tweet directly from Obsidian and also draw within Obsidian using plugins. Maybe it's been too long since I used Joplin, but those weren't options that I was aware of. And the list of plugins is more than 200.

- The search is the best I've used on any *note-taking* platform. I'm sure there are better options in code editors, but for someone on the less technical side of things, it's usable for them, but it allows regex, expanding context surrounding matches, and a host of other options.