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We have a bunch of short clips that show how to do various things, not sure if they are helpful to you: https://obsidian.md/canvas#protips

Canvas is less of a piece of drawing software and more of brainstorm/mindmapping/idea workbench software. Excalidraw will satisfy different use case than Canvas and you can definit…

We considered many options to use Markdown but came to the conclusion that Canvas is not something that can fit into a readable Markdown file. Either the Markdown file would so mes…

Cofounder of Obsidian here. We're excited to announce Obsidian 1.0 is live! Obsidian 1.0 introduces two big changes: a UI overhaul and an new tabbed interface. We've put a lot of c…

We use PixiJS! We used to use d3-force for force simulation, but then we rewrote it in wasm ourselves for performance.

Obsidian developers here! ( https://obsidian.md/ ) The new editor in Obsidian was made possible by CodeMirror 6, and it has been powering both the Live Preview mode (like Typora) a…

We here at Obsidian did this: https://obsidian.md/cloud

Yup! The app is written in TypeScript and shares much of the code with our desktop app. We're using Capacitor https://capacitorjs.com/

iCloud and Working Copy are both known to work. Obsidian Sync is also an option. File Provider is something we'll attempt to implement sometimes in the future to support other sync…

We'll give at least one month of advance notice before ending the discount, so as long as you receive news from us (Twitter, Discord, forum, etc) you should be good!

App Store allows external code if it strictly runs under WebKit and JavaScript Core. There's a few more general restrictions (like the additional functionality must be free or use …

Hi HN! After months of private beta, Obsidian is now finally available for Android and iOS! Obsidian is a personal knowledge management app that works on top of a local folder of M…

Obsidian supports LaTeX through the $...$ and $$...$$ syntax and renders them using MathJax.

Updated the pricing page to reflect the trial period, sorry about the oversight!

Nothing is stored on our servers. The app does not upload anything at all.

Yes, once we get close to a stable v1.0 release we'll be opening up a plugin API!

Yes! You can use the embed syntax ![[video.mp4]] to embed videos in Obsidian. The video should show up in preview mode. I think you would really enjoy our active discord community …

Plain Markdown links should work just fine in Obsidian, but you might need to convert space characters to "%20" according to Markdown spec, since space is not allowed.

Thank you for the tip!

I can't reply to your post further down, but it seems like space characters aren't allowed by Markdown spec. Apparently you have to convert it to "%20" :(

Plain Markdown links should work just fine if you use relative paths to files within the vault folder selected. Is it not working for you?

Totally agree! Still quite some work ahead of us (We're about 3 months from first line of code). Ideally the help docs can be opened as its own vault and can be a nice testing grou…