[dtkav]

In Obsidian you can have transclusions which is basically an embed of a section of another note. It isn't perfect, but worth looking into.

Regarding getting sherlocked; Obsidian does have realtime collaboration on their roadmap. There are likely to be important differences in approach, though.

Our offering is available now and we're learning a ton about what customers want.

If anything, I'd actually love to work more closely with them. They are a huge inspiration in how to build a business and are around the state of the art of a philosophy of software.

I'm interested in combining the unix philosophy with native collaboration (with both LLMs and other people).

That vision is inherently collaborative, anti lock-in, and also bigger than Obsidian. The important lasting part is the graph-of-local-files, not the editor (though Obsidian is fantastic).