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Re: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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Post by mknapper1 »

This looks like Obsidian's first move away from using some dialect of markdown? The .canvas files appear to be human readable json, but certainly not as readable as markdown. I'm excited to try this out, but I hope this isn't a trend towards using proprietary formats.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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Post by whalesalad »

I've been wanting a tool like this forever - ideally you can enter/exit these scopes/contexts so that everything above fades away. I like to think about problems in these scopes and then have the ability to "zoom out" to collect/link things, without disturbing the internal contents. Kinda like the C4/icepanel stuff but without so much pomp and circumstance.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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Post by seanw444 »

mknapper1 wrote: post #2

This looks like Obsidian's first move away from using some dialect of markdown? The .canvas files appear to be human readable json, but certainly not as readable as markdown. I'm excited to try this out, but I hope this isn't a trend towards using proprietary formats.

Or even harder-to-parse open formats. Doesn't have to be proprietary to be a pain.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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Post by rchaud »

mknapper1 wrote: post #2

This looks like Obsidian's first move away from using some dialect of markdown? The .canvas files appear to be human readable json, but certainly not as readable as markdown. I'm excited to try this out, but I hope this isn't a trend towards using proprietary formats.

The linked documents are still Markdown.

If I understand it correctly, the use case is to link existing MD notes visually. That's a different way of looking at the data than the two-way backlink approach that was the foundation of Obsidian (and other personal wiki tools).

I'm interested in this, as I currently use a combination of Obsidian + SimpleMind, but currently SimpleMind has more features (full fledged mindmapping app), and I like having two separate spaces to sketch out ideas.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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Post by chrisdhal »

mknapper1 wrote: post #2

This looks like Obsidian's first move away from using some dialect of markdown? The .canvas files appear to be human readable json, but certainly not as readable as markdown. I'm excited to try this out, but I hope this isn't a trend towards using proprietary formats.

And there's nothing saying you have to use it, this doesn't remove the regular notes.
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