Terminal alternatives to Obsidian

nb

Shell

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & more

• archiving
• bash
• bookmark-manager
• bookmarks
• cli
• command-line
• +10

ekphos

Rust

A lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool inspired by Obsidian

emeraldian

Rust

A terminal UI for your Obsidian vault: live-preview notes, backlinks, images, a force-directed graph and an assistant

• obsidian

tsuzuri

Go

Block-based notebook for the terminal. Plain Markdown files, Vim editing, live preview, boards, calendars and 96 themes.

• cli
• knowledge-base
• notes
• productivity-booster
• productivity-tools
• terminal
• +1

lazymark

Go

Lazy markdown notes, tasks and a Kanban board in your terminal. With a sleepy sloth.

• bubbletea
• cli
• golang
• kanban
• mcp
• notes
• +2

Shoin

Rust

A no-clutter terminal Markdown editor. Modal editing, Obsidian-style live formatting, an iA Writer surface

• md