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Obsidian Canvas: Infinite space, finite appeal.
AI roast score: 62/100 (C)
The idea
Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
Obsidian Canvas - Visualize your ideas
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Visualize your ideas.
Infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas. Canvas comes free with Obsidian.
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A playground for thought
Canvas allows you to organize notes visually — an infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram and lay out your ideas.
Embed your notes alongside images, PDFs, videos, audio, and even fully interactive web pages.
A new way to think
Effortlessly add existing notes and media from your vault, and edit them within a Canvas view.
Canvas views can be embedded in notes, and even nested within another Canvas.
Extensible and interoperable
Like everything else in Obsidian, Canvas is extensible and designed to be durable. Our API makes it easy to create plugins that add new capabilities to Canvas.
Your Canvas files are stored locally using the open JSON Canvas file format that we designed to work with other tools. Apps, scripts, and plugins can easily enhance Canvas by adding or modifying cards and connections.
Flexible and intuitive
Canvas is packed with functionality. This collection of tips will help you discover how you can use Canvas to its fullest.
Create a canvas (3 tips)
From ribbon
Create in
folder
From
command
palette
Card types (6 tips)
Text card
Markdown file
embed
Image &
video
PDF file
Webpage
Nested canvas
Create cards (10 tips)
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The roast
Obsidian Canvas aims to be an infinite space for ideas but feels more like an infinite space for potential confusion. The pitch lacks clarity and coherence, filled with buzzwords like 'visualize' and 'brainstorm' without practical application. Given the founder's solo status and lack of funding (q13=solo, q14=no_funding), execution will likely be a herculean task. The 'infinite space' concept sounds appealing, but there's no evidence anyone wants to pay for yet another note-taking tool (q15=will_pay).
Red flags
- q13=solo
- q14=no_funding
- q15=will_pay
Verdict
Your ambition is commendable, but without a clear value proposition and some external validation, you're building a castle on quicksand.
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