Obsidian Canvas - An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas

Creator of Obsidian here. We're so excited that Obsidian Canvas is going live today! Canvas is not just a shiny feature, it's a brand new way to think. You can lay out text, notes, images, PDFs, or even interactive websites on your canvas, and make sense of your ideas in this infinite space. Thank you to everyone for your support and patience! Thanks all Catalyst members, alpha testers, and moderators who provided feedback and reported bugs. Special credits go to Matthew Meyers (@mgmeyers) and Liam Cain (@liamcain) for tirelessly shaping Canvas into what it is today.

Yess! ❤️

Life changing. When Obsidian came out, it fulfilled a 6-year-long dream I had for graphically linked notes. But, as it turns out, I never actually made use of the linking and graphing features because I found it too difficult to think about what should link to what, and the graphs were never useful to me because the nodes were arranged automatically/randomly and thus had little significance to me. So, I now realize that Canvas is what I was actually longing for, now that I see it. There's immense value in being able to manually link notes and visually place them in a sensible, permanent visual space. Of course, Mind Mapping tools have long existed, but never with the slick notetaking functionality of Obsidian underneath it. Now I'm able to continue with my preferred "technique" of just making a single massive braindump of ideas while I exhaustively explore a new idea, where I don't worry whatsoever about how anything is linked or organized - topics just get vague and redundant headers. Its truly the equivalent of writing a whole bunch of index card notes and throwing them in a box. I suppose we could have always done this with Obsidian, but the difference is that I can now create a mindmap canvas rather than some sort of table of contents, and curate the braindump fragments into their respective cards/notes - all of which can be easily, sensibly and visually found via the main Canvas. I suspect I'll make very limited use of actual links and graphs going forward. Obsidian is the best.

Looking forward to it. Congratulations on the launch!

Congratulations on the launch!

Congratulations and well done with this. Such a good addition!

@erica_xu It appears to be an excellent systematization tool for the educational process. Congrats!

Whatever you think this is, it's better!

This is so exciting to see. Obsidian is by far my favorite note-taking app, and adding this level of diagramming and linking takes it to a whole new level! Congratulations team on shipping such a polished product!

This looks epic. Really looking forward to trying this out