A lot of notes apps seem to be adding some type of visual note-taking (is that the right term?)
Logseq now has a whiteboard feature that is similarly powerful.
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#12My new year resolution is to move from Notion to Obsidian. I found Notion unreliable in some situations and tbh, I'm not using the mobile application at all.
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#13This 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 .canvas files are a JSON-based file format that we open-sourced under MIT license. Just like everything else in Obsidian, it's still all local files on your device.
You can see the spec for .canvas here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...
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#14How is this different from Figma? my only issue with Figma is navigating through the screens once you create this gigantic canvas.
They’re building up to these features from plain text.
Similarly, right now they’re discussing how to contain a node-based database in human-readable markdown comments.
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#15I'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.
museapp.com works like that. Also heptabase.com and many others https://infinitecanvas.tools/
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#16I would kill for some sort of integration between Remarkable and Obsidian. Both are excellent tools and the Remarkable is great for sketching on the go. I just wish I could keep both in sync somehow.
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#17still no free search
What do you mean?
It seems to do free text search over notes content just fine for me.
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#18One thing that's really missing for me from Obsidian is a view similar to that of Google Keep. Like sometimes I want to drop a small note "my stuff is in locker 2130" or "Look into Open Library WikiData linking percentage" and then easily be able to see it again in a few of all notes most recent.
A thread on Reddit give me a small hope this update may do that but I don't think so.
PS: I'm aware of the daily notes viewer, and that's what I currently use for most of these situations. But it doesn't help with having a simple way to see contents of all recently created notes.
Edit: this is something I mostly want for mobile
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#19I would kill for some sort of integration between Remarkable and Obsidian. Both are excellent tools and the Remarkable is great for sketching on the go. I just wish I could keep both in sync somehow.
That's one of the reasons i went with an Onyx Boox tablet instead of a Remarkable - that way i have the Android Obsidian app, in sync, and i can sketch on it (with Excalidraw, i haven't tested Canvas yet).
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#20Just got the stupidest excited grin on my face from seeing this. Looking forward to trying it!