Gregory's ServerWhy @obsidian is 100% user-supported and not backed by VC investors
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 Have you come across Sensorica? They're using a similar approach for Open-Source HardWare designs.   @kepano @obsidian As I rely more and more on canvas, is there a plan to "open-source" canvas rendering? Markdown is there to last. But canvas is not a broad standard. While canvas files are text-based and therefore readable by any software able to, the correct rendering is an Obsidian specific functionality. What can we do to ensure future-proofness of canvas files beyond Obsidian? EDIT: As it was pointed out, the canvas JSON format seems rather trivial to reimplement. @yuliyan @kepano @obsidian not really: the canvas format is pretty clear JSON, so translating it is easy. If/when #obsidian goes bad the install base is big enough that tools to translate to whatever replaces it will be available. Dataview is the biggest problem and I believe there’s a stand-alone version of that in the offing. @Colman @kepano @obsidian I meant "amazing" as in realizing that the canvas JSON is already pretty resilient. Thank you for clarifying. Regarding Dataview, I am not in the school of thought, that wants to see Obsidian have more database functionality that it does right now. The referencing between notes and folder structure enforce simplicity and resilience. Combined with tags and naming conventions it is already pretty powerful without dependency cost. @Colman @kepano @obsidian I believe many things that Dataview does can be done by improving the core search functionality. When it comes to search, I. believe that computers in 50 years should easily be able to display search results based on human language queries. Data should be observable but does it need a technical database implementation other than search indexing?  @kepano @kepano @obsidian I don't want to be annoying or rude but I cannot tell what Obsidian does from the front page of the website. I know about how to get your Discord but not what the app actually does. I am not seeing anything obvious that links to "What is Obsidian?" or "About" or something like that. That's probably because the page linked on the profile description is not the main page. If you go to https://obsidian.md the first thing you'll see is a brief description of the app followed by a few paragraphs of details. @crmsnbleyd yeah but the fact that every single line was a bullet point made it unusable for me. @crmsnbleyd I'm in a similar situation with (neo) vim. I have a hacked together conjunction of plugins and configuration files, but it's not the most reliable thing.  @strife Yeah, I saw some oddities like that, too. I'm trying Anytype (also open source) and I'm happy with it so far. Worth a look.  AnyType is not Open Source. They promised to release it as Open Source but then they just published the source code with a custom restrictive license. This kind of things are called "source available" while Open Source implies the four freedoms originally listed by Richard Stallman for Free Software. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) made the term popular and lists the approved licenses. @tjk @obsidian VCware can be open-source, and the outcome is the same. For context:  @kepano @obsidian That's great. However, this might as well change any time. This is why I don't invest money nor effort in lock-in situations, especially with products I want to use for decades, not just months or until the next hype hits the market. Related:   |
@kepano I love this