There’s an official roadmap for Obsidian available here Obsidian Roadmap - Obsidian
But it’s quite frustrating because it’s pretty light and doesn’t get updated so often. You can check through Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Some objectives like the one for PDF annotations is in the roadmap, but I don’t understand why because it says they will implement if other devs ship the feature in the library. It seems out of scope of a roadmap somehow.
PDF annotation
Currently waiting for native support in PDF.js.
In comparison, I love how release notes are very detailed in terms of features and fixes. Thankfully, it’s not just like some (big) Android app release notes:
Latest fixes and app improvements
I’d be like, “Oh wow, you basically just gave another longer definition of an update” 
It’s vague on purpose.
For some of those features on the roadmap we only have some basic ideas how they will work.
It’s also why some features are missing entirely, because they are very rough ideas.
As for the PDF annotations, it’s listed there to let people know that we have not abandoned adding that feature.
Thanks for answering!
I understand that’s your objective to be vague. Furthermore, in some sense, it allows you more freedom to not implement some feature that you initially planned without creating a wave of indignation.
It’s just that from a user perspective, I have always been more excited and in confidence when I saw a more detailed roadmap. For example, some public Trello or Github project like where I could see more detailed objectives, including what’s currently being implemented (without many details) and issue tracking. I have to admit, it’s rarely done.
Regarding Obsidian, what’s hard is to see some simple feature (not in terms of coding but UX improvement) being asked for years without info of how Obsidian team is considering it in terms of temporality and priority. Some old examples are in my comment here: Request: Have more detailed and updated Obsidian roadmap - #2
Apart from that, I am grateful when some issues are tackled quickly (minus version release timings), often announced by @WhiteNoise
Thanks for making Obsidian. It’s a great thing.
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The post has been flagged and hidden.
I don’t know how to keep it accessible for other community members to be able to join the discussion.
What did I do wrong according to the guidelines?
The feature requests you linked (or any specific feature request for that matter) are not relevant to the the question asked in this thread and answered by joethei.
I don’t want this thread to turn into a “why isn’t FR X or Y included in the roadmap?”
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Oh yes, you are right, and it’s not my purpose here. I just wanted to illustrate real feature examples, but I am going to delete this comment.
EDIT
I was mistaken and thought it was the whole thread that was flagged because of the term “post”. Sorry for bothering you with that.
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