You built the vault.
You opened it twice.
Obsidian is extraordinary software. If you want a second brain — interconnected notes, local-first storage, a PKM system you actually own — it's one of the best tools available. The plugin ecosystem alone has people running their entire lives out of it.
But the Obsidian hyperfixation template you found at midnight, the one with the Dataview query that counts days since the start date and the rating property you had to configure manually — you spent ninety minutes on it. You used it for four days. Then the fix ended and you archived the note and you've never looked at it again.
A vault stores your obsession. Hyperfix holds it.
Obsidian is a tool you build. That's both its power and its cost. Every tracker, every database, every Dataview query — you built it. You maintain it. When the schema breaks or the date formula stops working, that's on you, at whatever hour the fix arrived.
Hyperfix is opinionated by design. The day counter is automatic. The intensity meter is built in. The eulogy writes itself when you close the fix. You don't configure it. You don't maintain it. You log the thing and it counts.
What Obsidian actually does well
Local-first ownership
Your data lives on your machine. No subscription, no servers, no company going under. If data ownership matters to you, Obsidian is genuinely difficult to beat.
The plugin ecosystem
Dataview, Templater, Kanban, the entire community plugin library. If you have a specific, idiosyncratic way you want to track something, there's probably a plugin for it.
Long-form thinking
Obsidian is exceptional for notes that grow over time — interconnected thoughts, research, backlinks, graph view. If you want to write 6,000 words about the internal logic of a character arc, Obsidian holds that better than Hyperfix ever will.
The comparison
| Feature | Obsidian | Hyperfix |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 45–120 min for a usable hyperfixation template | ✓One field. You're done. |
| Day counter | A Dataview formula you write yourself | ✓Automatic from the moment you log. |
| Intensity tracking | A number property you define and update manually | ✓Built-in 1–10 scale with visual bar |
| Data ownership | ✓Local files, you own everything | Hosted — you trust us with the data |
| Shareable cards | Publish plugin, no card format | ✓Screenshot-ready card for every fix |
| Eulogy / archive | Whatever you write before archiving the note | ✓Auto-generated when you close the fix |
| Long-form notes / essays | ✓Excellent — that's what it's built for | Short notes only |
| Community / social layer | None — it's local | ✓Profiles, public fixes, friend feeds |
| Maintenance burden | High — you own the schema | ✓Zero — it just runs |
| Understands hyperfixation as an experience | It does not — it's a blank canvas | ✓It does — that's the whole product |
Obsidian wins on ownership and flexibility. Hyperfix wins on knowing what you actually came here for.
A blank canvas doesn't know what you're building.
Hyperfix does.
The Obsidian vault you built for hyperfixation tracking is still there. The Dataview table with the broken "days active" formula. The four properties you defined at midnight. The three notes you made before the fix ended and you stopped updating it. Hyperfix doesn't need any of that. Log the thing. The rest runs itself.
Keep the vault for thinking.
Use Hyperfix for the crisis.
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