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

#81
Very nice! Happy to see this evolution coming from Obsidian, it seems like a more natural way to organize concepts and ideas.

One question: It seems it could be troublesome to have to move / resize everything when adding a new card once a canvas is already quite busy. Is there something like auto-layout in the work, to handle these situations? (like to automatically re-layout cards and groups once adding a new item in between)

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

#83
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hey, I just paid for a subscription but I'm getting a 500 on the manage membership page - any idea what's up with that?

Oh... I forgot to adjust that page with the recent full redesign. Will fix it this evening.

The page is not important for anything however, it just says "thanks for your purchase, you can now make an account"

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

#84
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…

There are community-extensions for this. "Vault Changelog"recently edited files, and "Recent Files" recently opened files. Not sure how well they work on mobile.

But true, a google keep like tile-view with auto-layout and filters would be a useful enhancement for obsidian.

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

#87
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 search for 'path:/' and sort by 'Modified time (new to old)' which isn't quite what you want, but improved things for me.

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

#88
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…

Great! I love the philosophy around open and clear formats. Like I have said before, a second brain should be as open and reliable as possible.

Trello boards export to JSON, would you consider it open? OneNote notebooks are also an open and well-documented specification, as well as local first and backed by a very reliable company, which makes them just as open as Obsidian by those standards.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_form...

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

#89
This is awesome! I only recently started using Obsidian and have been liking it a lot, especially since there's even a (rough but usable) drawing/sketching plugin so I can kind of get the same experience as I used to have with One Note. This Canvas thing doesn't seem like it has stylus support or anything like that, but it's still super useful.

Also, I noticed that the flatpak version is currently outdated. Anyone know when that will get updated?

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

#90
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…

The local first approach is the primary reason I use Obsidian. I trust that I can _depend_ on Obsidian because of this.

On the other hand, this has also caused some headaches around using it on mobile.. but so far this has been a worthwhile tradeoff. Thanks for all the hard work!

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