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Obsidiana version 1.1.0 brings the Canvas core plugin!
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 14, 2022 at 01:00 PM
It is astonishing, you’re absolutely right. I’m amazed to find myself taking to it like a duck to water; I’m normally very suspicious of apps like this, because they can so easily turn into rambling chaos (hint: Emacs!). But Obsidian is, in fact, doing precisely what you suggest: only incorporating plugins once they’re tried, tested and solid. That’s the essence of the Core plugins. That the development of these plugins isn’t always strictly coordinated doesn’t surprise me in the slightest – I’d much rather they only incorporate plugins once they’re absolutely sure they work. Currently there are many different approaches to Calendar apps, and they’ve clearly decided to see which ones are most promising, and which are most disruptive.
As for the Community plugins: I’ve been impressed by the developers’ professionalism. Most of them list issues with their plugins, making it clear what their weaknesses are and which other plugins they will/won’t work with. This means you can easily experiment with plugins to see which work, and what their impact on the rest of the ecosystem is. It’s so easy to switch plugins on or off, it’s clear that Obsidian is essentially designed as a platform for experimentation.
The best plugins have astonishingly complete documentation. Sometimes, like all open-source developers, the programmers take a significant swathe of knowledge for granted. But in most cases the processes are easy to understand and well explained.
So far, I’m profoundly impressed!
Cheers,
Bill
Chris Thompson wrote:
It really is astonishing how well Obsidian has evolved into a
>general-purpose toolbox. I saw a post the other day from a mom who has
>built a very intricate system for keeping track of her life in Obsidian.
>Some of it was quite creative, like using the kanban plugin not for
>tasks but as a visual multi-column index of Obsidian pages. Obsidian has
>become a little like Emacs org-mode for non-technical people.
>
>One of my concerns with the Obsidian system though is that it relies too
>much on plugins that don’t always work together. For example, there’s a
>calendar plugin and a “full calendar” plugin, but neither one of them
>appears to be able to show tasks from the Tasks plugin actually on the
>calendar. There’s another calendar plugin that does this, but it doesn’t
>integrate with the other two calendar plugins. Then there’s the daily
>notes plugin that’s built-in, and the periodic notes plugin that
>replaces daily notes but works a little differently. And there are at
>least two plugins that provide outlining, but in slightly different
>ways.
>
>As good as the canvas thing is, it might make sense for the Obsidian
>developers to focus on building core functionality where there is clear
>overlap in the plugin ecosystem, like calendaring and outlining.
Posted by steveylang
Dec 16, 2022 at 05:36 PM
Just two weeks after beta release, Canvas plugins are already starting to come out:
https://github.com/Quorafind/Obsidian-Canvas-MindMap
Obsidian Canvas MindMap: A plugin to make your canvas work like a mindmap.
- Press Enter to create brother card;
- Press Tab to create child card;
- Delete card to rearrange layout automatically;
Posted by Cyganet
Dec 20, 2022 at 06:20 PM
Canvas is now available to all, not just insiders
Posted by Cyganet
Dec 20, 2022 at 07:11 PM
Pro Tips for using the canvas are here: https://obsidian.md/canvas#protips
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 20, 2022 at 09:31 PM
Obsidian also published the file format for .canvas files—which contain the JSON data that the Canvas plugin uses to build the Canvas view. This will be of no interest to 99% of users, but it might encourage some developers to produce exports in .canvas format for display in Obsidian—since Canvas displays images and web content that could be useful.
https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canvas.d.ts
Cyganet wrote:
Canvas is now available to all, not just insiders