What is Obsidian on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
The Obsidian notes app (built on Electron) and its helper processes.
Obsidian is a Markdown notes app built with Electron, so it runs a main process plus Renderer, GPU and utility helpers. Large vaults, the graph view and community plugins are the usual reasons for higher usage.
- Category
- Third-party
- Made by
- Obsidian (Dynalist Inc.)
- Safe to quit:
- Yes
Shown in Activity Monitor as Obsidian, Obsidian Helper, Obsidian Helper (Renderer), Obsidian Helper (GPU), Obsidian Helper (Plugin)
Why is Obsidian using so much CPU or memory?
- Indexing a large vault after opening it
- Graph view open with many notes
- Community plugins doing background work
- Sync running
What to do
- 1Close the graph view when not needed
- 2Disable community plugins one at a time to find a heavy one
- 3Quit and reopen Obsidian
Safe to quit? Yes.
Safe to quit; notes are saved as files as you type.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library