This is exactly what Obsidian provides out of the box. All the other stuff like backlinks, tags, Mermaid diagrams, canvas whiteboards and knowledge graph etc are completely optional.
I use Obsidian as a CMS for my website for example. The filetree shows me a list of Markdown files, I add YAML as needed for things like title, date, etc, and that's it.
This is exactly what Obsidian provides out of the box. All the other stuff like backlinks, tags, Mermaid diagrams, canvas whiteboards and knowledge graph etc are completely optional.
I use Obsidian as a CMS for my website for example. The filetree shows me a list of Markdown files, I add YAML as needed for things like title, date, etc, and that's it.