Install Obsidian on Raspberry Pi

Obsidian

Powerful knowledge base using plain text Markdown files (for note-taking & project management)

Note-taking is incredibly personal. Tried every app, but something always irks you? You deserve better.
For those who can't custom-build a solution for themselves, Obsidian is as close as you can get, with plugins, themes, and custom CSS at your disposal.

With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again.

Vibrant Community
With more than 50,000 members in our Discord chat and 30,000 members on our forum, Obsidian has one of the largest note-taking communities.
Our community welcomes anyone who uses Obsidian or is interested in Obsidian, no matter your language, country, or field. Come join us!

To run from Menu: Menu -> Office -> Obsidian
To run from Terminal: obsidian

Fortunately, Obsidian is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
Use Pi-Apps to install Obsidian.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Obsidian will only run on PiOS 64-bit. Pi-Apps will not let you install Obsidian on PiOS 32-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps