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by ericax 4y ago
We have a bunch of short clips that show how to do various things, not sure if they are helpful to you: https://obsidian.md/canvas#protips
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by ericax 4y ago
Canvas is less of a piece of drawing software and more of brainstorm/mindmapping/idea workbench software. Excalidraw will satisfy different use case than Canvas and you can definitely use both!
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by ericax 4y ago
We considered many options to use Markdown but came to the conclusion that Canvas is not something that can fit into a readable Markdown file. Either the Markdown file would so messy that it becomes pointless (i.e. you would never open it i
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Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas(obsidian.md)
1380 points by ericax 4y ago|387 comments
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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app(obsidian.md)
1329 points by ericax 4y ago|565 comments
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by ericax 4y ago
We use PixiJS! We used to use d3-force for force simulation, but then we rewrote it in wasm ourselves for performance.
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by ericax 4y ago
Obsidian developers here! ( https://obsidian.md/ ) The new editor in Obsidian was made possible by CodeMirror 6, and it has been powering both the Live Preview mode (like Typora) and the source mode in Obsidian ever since. It
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by ericax 4y ago
We here at Obsidian did this: https://obsidian.md/cloud
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by ericax 5y ago
Yup! The app is written in TypeScript and shares much of the code with our desktop app. We're using Capacitor https://capacitorjs.com/
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by ericax 5y ago
iCloud and Working Copy are both known to work. Obsidian Sync is also an option. File Provider is something we'll attempt to implement sometimes in the future to support other sync providers. More info available at https://h
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by ericax 5y ago
We'll give at least one month of advance notice before ending the discount, so as long as you receive news from us (Twitter, Discord, forum, etc) you should be good!
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by ericax 5y ago
App Store allows external code if it strictly runs under WebKit and JavaScript Core. There's a few more general restrictions (like the additional functionality must be free or use IAP).
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by ericax 5y ago
Hi HN! After months of private beta, Obsidian is now finally available for Android and iOS! Obsidian is a personal knowledge management app that works on top of a local folder of Markdown files [0]. Because "local" often means you
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Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go(obsidian.md)
760 points by ericax 5y ago|318 comments
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Dyson Sphere Program – Intergalactic Factory Game Like Factorio and Satisfactory(store.steampowered.com)
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by ericax 6y ago
Obsidian supports LaTeX through the $...$ and $$...$$ syntax and renders them using MathJax.
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by ericax 6y ago
Updated the pricing page to reflect the trial period, sorry about the oversight!
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by ericax 6y ago
Nothing is stored on our servers. The app does not upload anything at all.
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by ericax 6y ago
Yes, once we get close to a stable v1.0 release we'll be opening up a plugin API!
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by ericax 6y ago
Yes! You can use the embed syntax ![[video.mp4]] to embed videos in Obsidian. The video should show up in preview mode. I think you would really enjoy our active discord community where a lot of people share and discuss their use cases and
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by ericax 6y ago
Plain Markdown links should work just fine in Obsidian, but you might need to convert space characters to "%20" according to Markdown spec, since space is not allowed.
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by ericax 6y ago
Thank you for the tip!
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by ericax 6y ago
I can't reply to your post further down, but it seems like space characters aren't allowed by Markdown spec. Apparently you have to convert it to "%20" :(
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by ericax 6y ago
Plain Markdown links should work just fine if you use relative paths to files within the vault folder selected. Is it not working for you?
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by ericax 6y ago
Totally agree! Still quite some work ahead of us (We're about 3 months from first line of code). Ideally the help docs can be opened as its own vault and can be a nice testing ground for a new user to play around with the functionality
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by ericax 6y ago
Sorry for the confusion! Help docs are in Settings > Help.
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by ericax 6y ago
We'll add an option to disable auto-update soon! If you don't trust us, technically you can also use firewall rules to block internet access (or monitor network and see what Obsidian is doing).
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by ericax 6y ago
Thank you so much for the tips, they make a lot of sense! Our onboarding surely needs some re-thinking.
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by ericax 6y ago
The catch shall be fixed soon! :)
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by ericax 6y ago
Hi there! It certainly doesn't sound normal for the app to take a few seconds to open files. Would you join our community to give us a chance to debug the issue? https://obsidian.md/community We're still currently

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