Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.

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Obsidian's Commercial license is now optional, allowing free usage of the software for work. There's no account requirement, no ads, and no data tracking, with all data stored locally in plain text Markdown files. The change aims to simplify the license terms and align with Obsidian's principle of enabling clear thinking and effective organization. Large organizations like Amazon and Google already use Obsidian, and organizations can still support its development by purchasing licenses.

Obsidian is now free for work

What is the advantage between this and <a href="http://notion.so" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">notion.so</a> ?

I still haven’t found a reason to use Obsidian (nor Notion), I guess that’s why it’s free(-er) now.

Open source is the best source &lt;3

You can also put your obsidian vault to google drive and use google drive app on system (mac/windows)
support of git is great but on drive it is synced automatically

Haven’t used Obsidian, but if you’re looking for something private and free, give Logseq a try.