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

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Post by garganzol »

kepano wrote: post #48
garganzol wrote: post #43

One thing that bugs me with Obsidian: I cannot create a link to a specific obsidian vault on desktop (Windows). The thing is I often take small notes and opening an Obsidian (or any other app) is usually too much work for me. Instead, I prefer to create file shortcuts on desktop to just double-click them later when I want to access the data. The thing is Obsidian vault is not represented by a recognizable file; it's…

Have you looked at Obsidian URIs? It has a vault parameter: https://help.obsidian.md/Advanced+topics/Using+obsidian+URI

Thank you. But it does not solve the issue. The custom URI concept is too complex and alien in the Windows world.

A Windows user would much better prefer to have a special anchor file in Obsidian vault folder that could be double-clicked and treated by the standard and observable means.

This is why .txt files are so popular. A double-click and they work. The specialized tools may be 100 times better, but they often miss one important detail: frictionless entry. If something causes friction, especially at the start, then it gradually becomes a burden a user doesn't want to deal with.

However, you advice solves the issue for me because I'm a technical user and you have kindly presented the information. But just imagine how many of those who would totally miss that.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

imdvayn wrote: post #27
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.

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

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Post by MrDrone »

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.

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you! Very excited to use this.

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

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Post by desireco42 »

This is fantastic development, something that really makes a difference in how you can use Obsidian. I got notified from LogSeq group that they are also introducing whiteboard, so clearly innovation is happening at really good pace.

There is more room for innovation, as these "thinking spaces" are still inflexible and I expect to see more good things. Obsidian has huge advantage that is open and you are never scared to lose your work in somebody's walled garden.

To me, this is more important then any VR or anything like this as it helps us use computers to think and collaborate, augment our abilities. What were original reason for making computers, not just enslaving our attention in dopamine loop.

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

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Post by burkaman »

jghn wrote: post #42

With the caveat that I'm very far from a power user, I'm struggling to picture how I'd use this. Not as in I think it's a bad idea, but rather it looks cool but I believe I don't quite understand it. I think the following is an example of an intended use case? Can anyone confirm/deny? For my work related notes, there's some hierarchical structure to them even though it's hard to see that at the note level. There's al…

There are some examples at the bottom of the page. I think this biology taxonomy one is pretty cool: https://obsidian.md/images/canvas/canvas-lunaris13-full.png

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

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Post by jghn »

burkaman wrote: post #66
jghn wrote: post #42

With the caveat that I'm very far from a power user, I'm struggling to picture how I'd use this. Not as in I think it's a bad idea, but rather it looks cool but I believe I don't quite understand it. I think the following is an example of an intended use case? Can anyone confirm/deny? For my work related notes, there's some hierarchical structure to them even though it's hard to see that at the note level. There's al…

There are some examples at the bottom of the page. I think this biology taxonomy one is pretty cool: https://obsidian.md/images/canvas/canvas-lunaris13-full.png

Yeah I saw those. It's what made me think of my hierarchical structure for my work stuff. But not sure that I'm really understanding or just pattern matching to something similar but different.

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

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Post by LunarAurora »

Coupled with a dynamic plugins ecosystem, this is going to be a game changer (even in an already somewhat crowded market [1])

For example, (future) plugins for advanced filtering and automatic layouts [2] will certainly help manipulate very large canvases.

[1] Most of it is online/collaborative (https://infinitecanvas.tools/gallery/) though so it is not exactly the same.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbLZvHDPqI

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

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Post by PurpleRamen »

kepano wrote: post #48
garganzol wrote: post #43

One thing that bugs me with Obsidian: I cannot create a link to a specific obsidian vault on desktop (Windows). The thing is I often take small notes and opening an Obsidian (or any other app) is usually too much work for me. Instead, I prefer to create file shortcuts on desktop to just double-click them later when I want to access the data. The thing is Obsidian vault is not represented by a recognizable file; it's…

Have you looked at Obsidian URIs? It has a vault parameter: https://help.obsidian.md/Advanced+topics/Using+obsidian+URI

I tried using the URI-scheme and vault-parameter some time ago on linux, to open specific vaults via script. Surprisingly, this did not worked at all. Even worse, the whole scripting of obsidian is horrible even on the fundamental levels, and it failed on pretty much any normal job. Though, this is not such a surprise, considering that it's complete foreign to linux any kind of integration. At the end, it's a closed space, not like an editor, open to the rest of the system.

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

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Post by unshavedyak »

criddell wrote: post #59
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.

It's just a plugin i believe, you can choose to not use it. There are _many_ community plugins that go well beyond just-markdown, i don't feel this is any different.

Remember, most of Obsidian is just plugins. Even core functionality. Which is a big reason i use Obsidian.

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