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Obsidiana version 1.1.0 brings the Canvas core plugin!
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Posted by yosemite
Dec 8, 2022 at 08:37 PM
The canvas is an outstanding feature and works good for me! I’m trying some stress tests with 100 and 1000 items on the canvas and it’s quite promising! 100 works great, 1000 not so good. Searching is good. 1000 is perhaps an unrealistic expectation given the framework. It would need a carefully thought out and specific interface. Maybe like the Brain but I’m not really fond of that except that it’s really fast.
Dynalist is still supported, but isn’t being developed much at all, for the last 2 years or so, since they started Obsidian. It still works just fine, and has numerous excellent features and is generally pretty fast. Workflowy is super fast again and actively developed and has added many cool things in the last few years. The best other options in this space are checkvist and legendapp (was moo.do), both of which are very nice. Anyone interested in web outliners should try all four of these.
Posted by steveylang
Dec 8, 2022 at 09:03 PM
I started using Obsidian about a month before they increased the Obsidian Sync price, and hadn’t been long enough a user to know whether I wanted to subscribe (I now just do it through iCloud and it works fine.)
But this $25 one-time purchase price…I think I should jump on it now, because I’m all in on Obsidian now and $25 is way more than worth it.
Amontillado wrote:
As many canvasses as I want? How disappointing - I don’t deserve things
>that nice!
>
>I’m also a complete dolt. I thought Obsidian’s entry level was a $25
>subscription. I was wrong. $25 isn’t that much and it’s one-time.
>
>I’m now an Obsidian Catalyst. It’s a big deal, but I promise not to
>forget my roots.
>
>The canvas feature is very nice, although with danger. I worry such
>superpowers could be misused. I suppose that’s a chance we’ll have to
>take.
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>Obsidian Canvas supports as many canvases as you wish.
>
Posted by Amontillado
Dec 9, 2022 at 02:23 PM
The Longform team could take a few hints from Canvas. Longform is great, but as far as I see there’s no way to add an existing note to a Longform project. You can transclude an existing note into a Longform note, but it would be nicer to be able to feed off the rest of the vault like Canvas does.
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 10, 2022 at 12:08 AM
The $25 is a contribution toward development, but is not required. All the contribution gets you is early access—usually a few weeks before updates are released to everyone.
steveylang wrote:
>But this $25 one-time purchase price…I think I should jump on it now,
>because I’m all in on Obsidian now and $25 is way more than worth it.
Posted by Dellu
Dec 11, 2022 at 03:21 PM
A great video on the Canvas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPescoJzcFA&t=102s
I was a bit skeptic thinking that the Canvas stores everything in the Json file.
Apparently, the latest version supports creating new notes from within the Canvas by hitting Shift+Enter: Tinderbox/Scapple style.
That is wonderful.