When Obsidian started in 2020 its main point of differentiation was the idea of links: connected sets of notes. There were already many Markdown editors for single files back then that interoperate with Obsidian. We didn't expect Markdown to become the file format that the whole world runs on, nor that Obsidian would become people's favorite editor for those loose files. We were focused on making it work well to manage knowledge bases. So during that time Obsidian became more feature-rich…