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

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Post by bachmeier »

D13Fd wrote: post #280
AB1908 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I use Microsoft Word’s multi-editing feature at work. The sync is essentially real-time (setting aside other opinions in Microsoft Office). You can see every change that your co-editors make as they make it. You can work on one file on two different devices at the same time. That is the kind of sync that I’d like. More realistically, I used to use a custom sync setup with a WebDAV server I set up and Goodsync softwar…

> As it is, the Obsidian sync takes a few minutes. And if you edit the file on another device before sync goes through, you’ll lose the changes from one device or the other.

Clearly we have had very different experiences. I have mainly markdown notes, PDFs, and screenshots and it syncs everything continuously as I work. As for "losing" the changes, I'll have to push back on that. You have full version history, so while you might have to look at an old version, you won't lose anything. There's certainly nothing unique to Obsidian with respect to conflict resolution. If version history isn't working, you'll have to talk to the developers because there's a serious bug.

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

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Post by kepano »

sneak wrote: post #297
kepano wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are confusing two different ideas here. The Canvas format is MIT licensed in the same way that Markdown uses a BSD-type license. That means we are giving explicit permission for anyone to use the format and build apps, scripts, plugins on top of it. Photoshop/PSD on the other hand is a closed proprietary format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_file_format

Nobody needs your permission, explicit or otherwise, to read or write files in this format. This is a nonsensical statement.

correct, see my reply in the sibling comment

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

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Post by taurusnoises »

D13Fd wrote: post #280
AB1908 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I use Microsoft Word’s multi-editing feature at work. The sync is essentially real-time (setting aside other opinions in Microsoft Office). You can see every change that your co-editors make as they make it. You can work on one file on two different devices at the same time. That is the kind of sync that I’d like. More realistically, I used to use a custom sync setup with a WebDAV server I set up and Goodsync softwar…

> "As it is, the Obsidian sync takes a few minutes. And if you edit the file on another device before sync goes through, you’ll lose the changes from one device or the other."

This has been my biggest fear using sync. So far I haven't had any issues, but I just get a" feeling" (maybe it's the lag between syncs) that this could definitely happen.

Can you explain in a little more detail how it might actually occur? Maybe so I can prevent it from happening.

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

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Post by sasas »

joethei wrote: post #216
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…

No, we do not use AWS. The Sync and Publish servers are running in Digital Ocean datacenters in the US. How sync encrypts the data is documented here: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy As others have already pointed out, Sync is not the only option to synchronize notes, Obsidian sync is just a convenience option. For compliance, I am guessing you mean certs like SOC 2 / ISO 27001?, or what a…

From the link:

> AES-256 is a military-grade encryption specification that's widely used in for example online banking.

The term “military grade” is meaningless and if anything raises a red flag (at least to me). What would be more useful is a detailed spec on the implementation.

Are the crypto routines implemented in house or has a well tested library been used? If in house, had there been an external code audit done? What were the results ?

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

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Post by brap »

I really don’t get Obsidian and why HN seems so obsessed with it. Can anyone please enlighten me? Why do they call these notes “a second brain”? How is this “a new way of thinking”? What are you people even writing that requires this? It just seems silly, honestly. What am I missing?

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

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Post by froggychairs »

Wow I didn’t know I could love obsidian more. I’ve been using kinopio.club for this and obsidian for notes. Being able to plot stuff visually really helps me plan long term (especially helpful for my ADHD)

Excited to see it is JSON too! Cannot wait to try :)

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

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Post by gardenhedge »

brap wrote: post #305

I really don’t get Obsidian and why HN seems so obsessed with it. Can anyone please enlighten me? Why do they call these notes “a second brain”? How is this “a new way of thinking”? What are you people even writing that requires this? It just seems silly, honestly. What am I missing?

I wasn't sold on it previously but downloaded it based on this new canvas feature. I'm creating a mind map for my new project and creating notes and organising them in a way that is helpful to me to plan the project.

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

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Post by cschmid »

captaincaveman wrote: post #289
xiande04 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's kinda the biggest selling point of Obsidian...? It's all just markdown files. Markdown is a standard format, so you can open it in many other apps as well.

Markdown is fine for formatting text, not convinced it's great for knowledge management.

I disagree; I think a system like Wikipedia shows that a textual and visual format like markdown provides the flexibility to convey pretty much any information. For any formal and semantic storage system, you will probably spend more time adapting it to each specific use case than to actually fill it with content.

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

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Post by seanosaur »

_def wrote: post #149

Cool, can't wait to try it out. Would love to move to obsidian fully, as of now I'm also using Joplin for my main set of notes. btw this plugin really reminds me of a piece of software that I had seen here sometime. An infinite zooming/nesting of notes was the main concept of it, does that ring a bell for anyone?

You could be thinking of Muse (https://museapp.com).
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