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While the feature itself was interesting, adding such a feature made alarm in my head. I don't think this is necessarily a good trend. Please Obsidian needs to
by tianqi 4y ago
While the feature itself was interesting, adding such a feature made alarm in my head. I don't think this is necessarily a good trend. Please Obsidian needs to be very, very cautious about adding such large features.
I won't forget why I, and many others, gave up Evernote. It did too much, not too little.
- input_sh 4y agoLike any core plugin, you can just disable it if you don't need it.
- kepano 4y agoObsidian is built on a modular architecture. Canvas view is a plugin so you can turn it off if you don't want to use it. Not much is changing with the core. You can still run Obsidian as a very lightweight app with most plugins disabled.
- tianqi 4y agoThanks. That's what I like about Obsidian, a flexible tool kit, instead of KFC party bucket. I just wanted to (self-servingly) remind Obsidian to keep in mind not to go down that road.
- localhost 4y agoI've taken to calling Obsidian "The VS Code of Text" for this very reason. Thanks for all you do for building a fantastic tool that I use every day!
- niels_bom 4y agoIt’s in that direction, but I also think VS Code offers more and more flexible extension points. I was reading the plug-in development documentation [0] this morning and the ways in which you can extend Obsidian feels relatively limited. I hope they’ll add more things to hook into. 0: https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs/user-interface https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs/user-interface
- niels_bom 4y agoAh, they are extending the API: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v110-2022-12-05--insider-build https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/CHANG...
- huecow 4y agoHmm, not sure what you talking about (and I also never use Evernote), because I always see Obsidian as a Toolbox that you could customize personally to your own taste. But I do understand why you came up with that thinking, can't denied that a lot of us did fall into that pitfall of overcomplicating stuff.
- codalan 4y agoIt wasn't the feature-bloat that made me give up on EN. It was the broken sync, the difficulty getting an export of my notes from their server, the brutally sluggish mobile and desktop apps, etc. Obsidian doesn't seem to be going down that road. Using another provider to store the notes (Dropbox, S3, Blob, self-hosted disk space, etc.) takes care of issues #1 and #2. Making this an optional plugin answer #3.
- mpalmer 4y agoDid it do too much, or was it too opinionated and bloated? Obsidian is neither! Obsidian devs have shown repeatedly that they understand why Obsidian is successful - just look at how they released this. No canvas-specific core software changes, just a new plugin that can be disabled.
- mackrevinack 4y agothis feature is actually related to note taking though. its not like evernote where they were off making nonsense contacts or food rating apps instead of improving their core note taking app
- PurpleRamen 4y ago> It did too much, not too little. Not sure whether this is true. Evernote did much, but on the wrongs parts, in the wrong ways, and then abounded them often in poor state. So in fact they did not enough on the important parts. They barely added the things people demanded, instead added features barely anyone asked for, or rewrote the clients for third or fourth time. Obsidian on the other side has a sleak core, and everything else is in extensions. Even the core-app itself comes with most parts in extensions. While also allowing the users themselves to add extensions for their demand. This is significant more healthy than whatever evernote did.