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

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Post by AB1908 »

runjake wrote: post #186
bachmeier wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian Sync is by no means cheap, but I've never used a better syncing service. I'm on my second year and can't think of a single issue I've had across laptops, desktops, an Android phone, and a Chromebook.

I can think of a number of other notes syncing that's better -- probably even Evernote's. As a happily paying Obsidian Sync customer, I'll drop some reality, so new people aren't caught off-guard. - Obsidian Sync is pretty slow. - Obsidian Sync doesn't happen in the background, at present. That means, if you just made a bunch of updates in Obsidian, or you haven't opened the Obsidian mobile app in a while, you're in…

What's faster than Obs sync? Genuinely curious since I thought I tried most of the options out there apart from syncthing.

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

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Post by kobaltauge »

luismedel wrote: post #183
arwineap wrote: post #171

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I don't think you would need either sync or publish at work. I haven't used canvas yet, as it's a new feature, but obsidian is a key app at work for me. Up to this point at least, it's been free :) Make a private repo, and git commit / push / pull your obsidian notes and canvases just like you would any other shared repo

A few days ago I wrote a small utility to setup cron-like timers to pull/push my Obsidian notes :-) https://pypi.org/project/grony/

Love when someone find a solution for his issue. For your convenience try the Git Plugin in Obsidian. Probably it will help you.

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

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Post by kepano »

sleight42 wrote: post #159

I've been concerned about Obsidian sync. IIRC, data goes to AWS servers but where does it go from there? From reading the Obsidian website, they seem a tiny company. However, it is unclear where they are based and, therefore, what legal obligations they are operating under. What more, Obsidian has so far avoided the levels of compliance that allows for adoption by big businesses. I love me some Obsidian but I'm mindf…

Obsidian is based in Canada. Obsidian Sync is E2E encrypted so the company has no way of accessing your files. The privacy policy is here https://obsidian.md/privacy

You also do not need to trust Obsidian with any of your data. The files are local to your device so you can sync them however you want. If you don't want to use Obsidian Sync you can use Git, Dropbox, Syncthing, etc.

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

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Post by kbd »

rcarr wrote: post #113
input_sh wrote: post #56

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FYI there's a public roadmap: https://trello.com/b/Psqfqp7I/obsidian-roadmap Tasks are usually not very descriptive, but you get a sense of what's to come.

I’m looking forward to seeing what their implementation of tasks looks like and how it stacks up next to org mode and its agenda. The user implemented task plugins aren’t up to job I don’t think. If it’s mega then I might switch to using it for task management but I am finding the combination of taskpaper and OmniFocus to be awesome at the minute

Hey, cool, thanks for pointing out they're working on task management. I currently use the Tasks plugin and it works ok, but it took some fiddling with queries to get the right display, it's a little flaky (doesn't update results all the time), and there's no concept of subtasks. I still haven't found my perfect task management system... really interested to see how Obsidian folks tackle this as a core plugin.

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

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Post by martini333 »

dhruval wrote: post #184

I tried Obsidian last year but wasn't enough of a value add for me to make the switch from my normal note taking program. Now I have to give it another go. This looks amazing.

What a stange comment. Could you at least provide some context?

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

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Post by daviross »

azeirah wrote: post #26
mmastrac wrote: post #16

I 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.

I'm working on a sync tool specifically for ReMarkable to Obsidian. https://scrybble.ink It's still in beta for now, so it's definitely not flawless, but it does work! You can choose which files from your tree to sync, they will appear as pdf files in your vault.

When this gets to reasonable stability, this may be enough to get me to buy ReMarkable just for it. It might be worth seeing if they have any sort of referral program. "Buy ReMarkable through me & get X months syncing free!" type deal.

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

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Post by pjdkoch »

sleight42 wrote: post #159

I've been concerned about Obsidian sync. IIRC, data goes to AWS servers but where does it go from there? From reading the Obsidian website, they seem a tiny company. However, it is unclear where they are based and, therefore, what legal obligations they are operating under. What more, Obsidian has so far avoided the levels of compliance that allows for adoption by big businesses. I love me some Obsidian but I'm mindf…

https://syncthing.net/ is your friend, too.

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

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Post by btbuildem »

Existenceblinks wrote: post #185

Is there anyone else's brain doesn't work well with canvas like mine? It looks unorganized to me with "group" and "arrow". Unlike structural design like we are used to on daily basis like "order" (left-to-right + top-to-bottom), "index" (several kind of nav). When I look at this type of canvas my brain is confused where to start, what's the order because it looks like a mesh. I guess this is for popular brains?

I find it useful for some things and awkward for others.

I've been using Gingko [1] for a long while now. The ever-expanding-but-hierarchical structure it uses hits a sweet spot for me.

1: https://gingkoapp.com/

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