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

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Post by kepano »

robofanatic wrote: post #9

How is this different from Figma? my only issue with Figma is navigating through the screens once you create this gigantic canvas.

Obsidian is knowledge management tool, you can think of it like a personal wiki. So it gives you some different types of elements that you can place inside the Canvas, e.g. notes, PDFs, videos, audio, and even iframe web pages.

For example you can embed embed Markdown notes inside a Canvas, and embed a Canvas inside a Markdown note.

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

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Post by dotBen »

weego wrote: post #10
robofanatic wrote: post #9

How is this different from Figma? my only issue with Figma is navigating through the screens once you create this gigantic canvas.

It's in a completely different product space, so there's that to differentiate them as a start.

Are you familiar with FigJams?

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

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Post by ericax »

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.

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 messy that it becomes pointless (i.e. you would never open it in Typora to edit), or it would severely limit the power of Canvas.

After much internal debate we chose the JSON format. We stay committed to keep it as open and easy to work with as possible. Plugin developers are already parsing and modifying the JSON file to programmatically change a Canvas view, and I think that's a fantastic start!

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

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Post by ngrilly »

raybb wrote: post #18

One 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 vie…

I'm using both Obsidian and Apple Notes, both on my iPhone and MacBook, and that's also the main thing I'm missing in Obsidian and keeps me partly on Apple Notes: it's faster and easier to create a note in Apple Notes, retrieve it (as they as are sorted from most recent by default, and also I can pin some notes), search, and navigate in folders (especially on mobile, navigating across folders is so much better with Apple Notes than Obsidian). I'd really like to see Obsidian takes some inspiration from Apple Notes there and improve his. Otherwise, it is fantastic tool and it's really good to know that everything is stored locally in plain text.

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

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Post by poszlem »

I honestly cannot grasp how is it possible for the Obsidian team to consistently release such high quality software on a regular basis, almost for free and with such a small team.

Just incredible, and if anybody from Obsidian reads that, you have my utmost respect.

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

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Post by azeirah »

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.

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

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Post by imdvayn »

raybb wrote: post #18

One 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 vie…

If you look at the Quick Switch view on desktop or mobile it will show you most recent.

Also, if you use a 3rd party storage solution instead of Obsidian Sync, you can view recently modified/created notes in the Recents on there.

If you wanted to see the content of all recent notes, you can write a custom query for the dataview extension that attempts it.

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

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Post by mmastrac »

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.

The page isn't loading for me but I'll take a look later on as this could be super interesting!
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