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

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Post by niels_bom »

niels_bom wrote: post #253
localhost wrote: post #72

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I've taken to calling Obsidian "The VS Code of Text" for this very reason. Thanks for all you do for building a fantastic tool that I use every day!

It’s in that direction, but I also think VS Code offers more and more flexible extension points. I was reading the plug-in development documentation [0] this morning and the ways in which you can extend Obsidian feels relatively limited. I hope they’ll add more things to hook into. 0: https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs/user-interface

Ah, they are extending the API: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/CHANG...

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

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Post by jpillora »

sleight42 wrote: post #286
joethei wrote: post #216

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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…

SOC2, yes.

Relevant https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/1822302/...

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

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Post by deafpolygon »

NAR8789 wrote: post #177
sph wrote: post #172

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Well, what's the alternative to AlternativeTo then?

https://alternativeto.net/software/alternativeto/

Wonder if AlternativeTo is listed as an alternative to AlternativeTo?

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

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Post by pilina »

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 use Nextcloud Notes for that. It has decent mobile app and works great with few notes (Nextcloud Notes doesn't work as second brain very much).

I have two notes in there - Buffer and Shopping list. Buffer is one note for all the small stuff you mentioned. I also have widget on phone homescreen for that note so I can access it pretty seamlessly. Of course, it also means, you need to access some Nextcloud instance (I run my own).

Edit: I use Obsidian synced with Nextcloud for all the "second brain" things.

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

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Post by prashantsengar »

probablynish wrote: post #266

I just shifted from Logseq to Obsidian over the last couple of weeks. One of my reasons for doing so is that while Logseq does technically store your notes as local markdown files, there's so much added on top of that, that I can't really open my notes folder in Typora/[markdown editor of choice] and have a smooth experience reading my notes. The underlying format might be open, but there was still lock-in. Obsidian…

Thanks a lot for sharing the script!

I too am considering switching to Obsidian at least to see the difference wrt LogSeq as per my current note-taking approach.

I like Obsidian's community and development better but used LogSeq because of the outliner experience.

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

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Post by aussiesnack »

TheCapeGreek wrote: post #346
aussiesnack wrote: post #335

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It's decent note-taking software with useful features and a storage medium that's currently in favour. If you have a use for such a thing, it's one of the best options available right now. But that's all. You can forget all the "second brain"/zettelkasten stuff. It's just marketing gumpf used to build careers prattling about notetaking methods (dressed up as something fancier).

I have my own knowledgebase in my own format and TBH I'd say it's one of the most valuable things I own. I don't think the second brain "marketing grumpf" is false - once you get rolling, you have a personal treasure trove of knowledge without having to dedicate every piece of info to memory.

The value of whatever style of note-taking suits your work and personal style has been well understood for centuries. All the productivity piffle has added nothing to it, though it has earned a few bucks from book sales, youtube ads, and merch.

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

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Post by esjeon »

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

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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 agree. Markdown is way too much overrated as a multi purpose document format. I find it very limiting even w/ Obsidian. It would probably work well for some text-people, but anything more complicated than 1D character stream won't fit well into Markdown.

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

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Post by sasas »

s0ulphire wrote: post #333
sasas wrote: post #304

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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 don…

The data is successfully encrypted before it's sent (which you can verify with wireshark). What exactly are your concerns, given that the data isn't encrypted locally in the first place? And seriously with the question...what do you think is more likely, that the tiny team of 6 invested a ton of time reinventing the wheel with a custom in-house AES implementation, OR that they used any of the readily available and ex…

Your response indicates you may have limited knowledge on the topic.

> what do you think is more likely, that the tiny team of 6 invested a ton of time reinventing the wheel with a custom in-house AES implementation

AES is a cryptographic primitive. No one ever implements their own. What developers implement is the cryptographic system - the block cipher mode, initialisation vectors, rounds, salting etc. It all very easy to get this wrong. Their site does state they use GCM cipher mode which is the right choice (say over ECB, CBC…)

> which you can verify with wireshark

Viewing encrypted material in a packet capture is meaningless and provides zero assurances

> What exactly are your concerns, given that the data isn't encrypted locally in the first place?

The encrypted data in their cloud solution is adequately protected.

Companies that take end to end encryption seriously will generally provide details on how they went about their cryptographic system.

For example, is the encryption key derived from the password? If so what is the key derivation function? How many rounds didn’t get select? These are generally the responsibility of the developer to responsibly choose.

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

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Post by esjeon »

system2 wrote: post #271
madrox wrote: post #197

This is something I'd love to see built into the OS. I don't want multiple desktops as much as I want the ability to zoom around a giant desktop.

Haha, no thanks. Imagine microsoft doing this. The windows would BSOD every 5 minutes.

I'm pretty sure it'll be running on a Chrome variant actually.
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