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

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Post by para_parolu »

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 had the exact same problem. I ended up writing a small ios app. It only contains one textarea and sync text between devices.

It was rejected by appstore for simplicity. But works well for me.

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

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Post by kepano »

kwerk wrote: post #32

Anyone have a video on this? I’m not quite getting it.

Here are a couple short examples

https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1601664161360261120

https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1601664161360261120

And some longer walkthrough videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBd_ADeKIw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3DJKk4ivq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPescoJzcFA

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

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Post by huecow »

tianqi wrote: post #46

While the feature itself was interesting, adding such a feature made alarm in my head. I don't think this is necessarily a good trend. Please Obsidian needs to be very, very cautious about adding such large features. I won't forget why I, and many others, gave up Evernote. It did too much, not too little.

Hmm, not sure what you talking about (and I also never use Evernote), because I always see Obsidian as a Toolbox that you could customize personally to your own taste.

But I do understand why you came up with that thinking, can't denied that a lot of us did fall into that pitfall of overcomplicating stuff.

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

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Post by rcarr »

ngrilly wrote: post #24
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 A…

Preface: I am a massive Obsidian fan and use it everyday.

The problem is they wanted it multi platform on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux so they made it using electron. Unless they either do native versions for each platform (5 apps!) or rewrite the entire application in something quicker like Tauri it’s never going to be as fast as apple notes, and will only get worse every time you add a new plugin.

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

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Post by input_sh »

ptato wrote: post #45

That looks great. I had no idea this was coming. Now I wonder which other ideas the Obsidian team has.

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.

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

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Post by tianqi »

kepano wrote: post #47
tianqi wrote: post #46

While the feature itself was interesting, adding such a feature made alarm in my head. I don't think this is necessarily a good trend. Please Obsidian needs to be very, very cautious about adding such large features. I won't forget why I, and many others, gave up Evernote. It did too much, not too little.

Obsidian is built on a modular architecture. Canvas view is a plugin so you can turn it off if you don't want to use it. Not much is changing with the core. You can still run Obsidian as a very lightweight app with most plugins disabled.

Thanks. That's what I like about Obsidian, a flexible tool kit, instead of KFC party bucket. I just wanted to (self-servingly) remind Obsidian to keep in mind not to go down that road.

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

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Post by mmastrac »

azeirah wrote: post #31
mmastrac wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Fixed, I keep forgetting I got a novelty tld (.ink) rather than .com :p

Cool project! Note that if you want to support the Remarkable scribbles, there's a Python project that does that:

https://github.com/rschroll/rmrl

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

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Post by criddell »

poszlem wrote: post #25

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.

I kind of wish they would plant a stake in the ground and declare it feature complete and then go into maintenance mode. It's almost inevitable that they are going to keep adding features, give up control to VCs, and then fade away like Evernote.

This feature is neat, but it feels like a turning point. I believe it's the first betrayal of the it's-just-a-folder-of-markdown-files principle.

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