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

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Post by malfist »

danbruc wrote: post #140
malfist wrote: post #129

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Is it though? You're probably running on something with plenty of spare clock cycles and extra RAM. It's not like end users are suddenly paying a real cost for extra ram usage when the next electron app comes along. A couple hundred megabytes on a terabyte or larger harddrive? Who cares.

But why do I have those? My notebook could cost $10 if 640 kiB of RAM and 1 GB of storage were enough. I am of course not expecting that everything should work on a system from 30 years ago, we really made use of more powerful systems to do things that were impossible before, but I think we could still do a lot better.

Sure, but then your software would cost a lot more to develop and you'd have to pay for that. TANSTAAFL and all that.

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Post by brimwats »

captaincaveman wrote: post #377
cschmid wrote: post #308

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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.

yet has no metadata or any semantics, its basically just how you layout text ...

it can, using plugins. i.e. i use schema.org's things as fileClasses, which are enforced using a metadata schema for attributes which are extensible and excludable. My ontology is based on FRBRoo and I have link visualization for ease of reading.

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Post by rodun »

abraxas wrote: post #316
8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #281

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i bought a remarkable tablet for that purpose but still failed to adopt it.

Yeah, the Remarkable looks like the most likely candidate to be able to displace a sheet of paper but my hangup is that the lack of colour will hinder its usability too much for me. I always use a few coloured pens when I scribble my notes.

I went paperless this year as an engi student with dendron, xournal++, a (used) wacom tablet, and some pdf editors. The main benefits were avoiding scanning, instantly being able to reorganize or copy/paste diagrams, and not having to carry notebooks. Pencil or pen and paper still feels the best but in order to keep everything digital, this was reliable and cheaper than an ipad or tablet. https://alternativeto.net/list/34598/paperless-student/

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

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Post by readerbaza »

kepano wrote: post #34

Obsidian Canvas uses a new JSON-based file format that we have open-sourced under MIT license. You can see the spec here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva... Just like all other files in Obsidian, canvas files are your own and local to your device. You're still linking to your own Markdown files which are just as future-proof as ever. We decided to create the .canvas format because there w…

Why every electron app feels the need to reinvent the window border/title?

Does this look OK? https://i.postimg.cc/4ymyHWxF/window-border.png

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