# Obsidian – a cross platform app to help you create a knowledge base with Markdown files **URL:** \ **Category:** Cross-Platform Apps/Libraries/Tools\ **Tags:** markdown, macos, apps, windows, linux, obsidian\ **Created:** [2 July 2020 00:41 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/obsidian-a-cross-platform-app-to-help-you-create-a-knowledge-base-with-markdown-files/970 "2020-07-02T00:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![axelson](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/axelson/32/537_2.png) [@axelson](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/axelson)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2020 06:53 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/obsidian-a-cross-platform-app-to-help-you-create-a-knowledge-base-with-markdown-files/970/3 "2020-07-03T06:53:29Z")
> [@AstonJ](#): > > Nice find Jason!! Just downloaded it and renamed all the .txt files to .md in my notes folder 🤓 Cool, I’m glad that you like it. I feel like it deserves more visibility than I’ve seen it get so far. > [@AstonJ](#): > > Obsidian does try to make two connections to the web on start up, if you disable `check for updates` it seems to stop (I’d prevent it anyway via [LittleSnitch](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-use-littlesnitch/223) but it’s worth knowing if you don’t use LittleSnitch). Yeah that’s good to point out. I have noticed that it checks for updates rather frequently, more than on each startup or day. Maybe every 30 minutes (but I’d have to measure it before being able to say for sure). > [@AstonJ](#): > > I wonder if we should split posts like this into individual threads so that they can trend in our lists btw? This is just the sort of thing Devtalk is aiming to help with - make it easy for people to see what’s hot/trending That’s fine by me 😄 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/obsidian-a-cross-platform-app-to-help-you-create-a-knowledge-base-with-markdown-files/970)._