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Productivity · Consumers5.7

Large personal document archives are hard to search and organize

For people with large personal and research document archives

+45 people · 43 threads
Productivity · Consumers5.2

AI assistants flatter users instead of answering plainly

For AI assistant users seeking candid, dependable answers

+36 people · 35 threads
Would pay
Productivity · Consumers4.8

Windows users lose time repeating and restoring system tweaks

For windows power users and PC setup technicians

11 people · 11 threads
Productivity · Consumers4.5

Obsidian users struggle to explore filtered note relationships

For obsidian users with structured, highly linked vaults

23 people · 19 threads
Productivity · Consumers4.4

People lose ideas when capturing notes on the go is too slow

For mobile-first note takers and writers

24 people · 21 threads
Productivity · Consumers4.3

Saved links get trapped in rigid folders and scattered lists

For people who save lots of links and posts for later

14 people · 13 threads
Productivity · Consumers4.1

Obsidian users lack reliable project views over their Markdown notes

For obsidian users managing projects in Markdown

29 people · 17 threads
Productivity · Consumers4.0

Writers struggle to spell and type accurately across languages

For multilingual writers and people who struggle with spelling

4 people · 4 threads
Would pay
Productivity · Consumers3.8

People lose access to chat histories across apps and workspaces

For AI-chat users, developers, and messaging-app users

+71 people · 61 threads
Productivity · Consumers3.8

Obsidian users can’t use formulas flexibly in notes

For obsidian users with formula-heavy notes

5 people · 3 threads
Productivity · Consumers3.6

Obsidian users struggle to keep image-heavy vaults small

For obsidian users with image-heavy vaults

4 people · 2 threads
Productivity · Consumers3.5

Obsidian users lack reusable inline computed properties

For obsidian power users and personal-knowledge-base maintainers

8 people · 5 threads
Productivity · Consumers3.4

Note users struggle to keep structured data connected to documents

For people building document-centric knowledge systems

6 people · 6 threads
Productivity · Consumers3.0

People struggle to coordinate plans across fragmented calendars

For people coordinating personal, work, and group schedules

+38 people · 38 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.9

Note-takers struggle to search and navigate their own notes

For markdown note-takers

5 people · 5 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.9

People struggle to access two-factor codes without their phone

For desktop-first workers and phone-constrained account holders

21 people · 21 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.8

Obsidian Bases users repeatedly rewrite and debug formulas

For obsidian Bases power users

4 people · 4 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.8

Whiteboard users struggle to organize and reuse visual work

For casual diagram users and whiteboard-based outline writers

5 people · 3 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.8

Obsidian Bases users manually template and tag new notes

For obsidian Bases users who create structured notes

10 people · 4 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.7

Obsidian notes can’t appear in every matching group

For obsidian note-takers who organize notes with properties

4 people · 2 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.4

Note-taking app users struggle to discover and curate plugins

For obsidian and Logseq plugin users

4 people · 4 threads
Productivity · Consumers2.2

Bitwarden users struggle to navigate and revisit vault items

For bitwarden users managing varied or complex vaults

4 people · 3 threads