Tag: Obsidian

2 posts tagged with "Obsidian"

Free Doesn't Mean Open: How AI Is Unbundling the Open Source Bargain

Free Doesn't Mean Open: How AI Is Unbundling the Open Source Bargain

For decades, 'free software' and 'open source' were nearly synonymous — because building something worth sharing required a community. AI has dissolved that constraint. But the story isn't that open source is dying. It's that open source used to do five jobs at once, and AI is separating those threads. Some become less necessary. Others become more critical than ever.

AI , Best Practices , Tools
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Why I Left Notion and Built My Own AI Agent Plugin for Obsidian

Why I Left Notion and Built My Own AI Agent Plugin for Obsidian

After refusing to pay for yet another AI subscription I couldn't customize, I switched from Notion to Obsidian and discovered there was no way to use my existing AI services inside it. So I built one — an open source AI Agent Sidebar plugin developed with agentic engineering and the dark factory method.

AI , Automation , Tools
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