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

This product actually made my day! Its simple, elegant and.... "infinite"! I was thinking its applications in academic/research world as well. Stdents/reserchers can use this tool to share the progress of their thought-proecssing. Love the idea! Congratulations on the launch. You guys have put in lot of efforts. So, just wondering, whats the monetization plan?

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!

Obsidian is just Magic by simplicity and objectivity. Congratulations and thank you for the awesome feature.

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.

Hey Makers, Thank you for your maverick work. I have been a big fan of your work and now I will be a little more...

So cool guys, thanks! Do you think it will ever be possible to extract parts of a PDF and organize these in a mind map (similar to what Marginnote 3 does)?

Very interesting application of the open canvas. I use Arc Easel and customized inbox system in Craft for the similar purpose and can assure it is very useful. Must be more useful in obsidian if you already use the app and have all the docs there to glance at the same place.

I love Obsidian, and I have no doubts that Canvas will be a fantastic addition to the product. Congrats to the team, and keep up the amazing work!

I am THRILLED about this release. I was not expecting this to be the next big thing from Obsidian but it's seamlessly integrated my most used external tool/feature. I will be spending even more time in Obsidian now!

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.

Wow this will be very helpful for me since I'm a visual learner so I need to put everything out there. :D Great job makers and congratulations!

@erica_xu congrats on the launch 🚀 this looks really nice 🥳

Canvas would be amazing on its own but to have this functionality able to surface my notes and content from Obsidian is a wonderful leap into a different way to work with ideas and connections.

Yess! ❤️

Looking forward to it. Congratulations on the launch!

Congratulations on the launch. This feature completes the product in a uniquely productive manner.

thank you for building obsidian! it is the single best software I have in my daily routine.

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

As a big Obsidian user, I'm happy! Congrats on this new feature

It seems an interesting approach to organize misc info. Congrats!