WBO VS obsidian-api

As a maintainer of an open source JavaScript infinite canvas application [1], I was very interested, and now I am a little disappointed. The set of supported objects on the canvas is quite minimal.

[1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir

Could a self-hosted whiteboard work? * Excalidraw allows images to be inserted * WBO has a built-in grid mode (but no ruler)

You can share and use a Scrumblr only with the link. But no possibility to import other than opening the same board again (and exporting, printing the page as PDF). Same with the whiteboard WBO, but much more complete and polished one (and has SSL).

Aside from kanban boards, a virtual whiteboard might also work well: * Excalidraw (live) * WBO (live)

A whiteboard thing? Like WBO or Spacedeck

Fluffyboard and WBO - I prefer Fluffyboard because it has an Android app.

This one seems to work well: https://wbo.ophir.dev/

It's basically this: https://wbo.ophir.dev/

I really like that you commit to keep this stable and open.

Do you plan to make the TypeScript definition part of this new site?

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...

For me it's easier to read TS format.

The Canvas feature is a custom file format, but they published the format here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...

If Obsidian goes under or you want to migrate at least your data isn't lost.

Obsidian is closed source so you won't be infringing their copyright by incorrectly getting/copying their code within your code. I don't believe they have any software patents (too small a company), and the canvas data format is available under MIT license (https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canvas.d.ts). Even if you decided to reproduce their plugin APIs (so that existing Obsidian plugins could be reused with your software), you'd be fine per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc. (but their API definition is under MIT license anyway: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/tree/master)

I would start with with the obsidian api docs and the obsidian plugin docs then feed it into a gpt document loader and ask gpt the same thing you asked here. Obsidian offers a couple different “talk to your notes” plugins using gpt (all you need is an open ai api key) if you’re looking for a streamlined “ai document loader” you could just copy and paste the info into a new note once you have the plugin installed.

In any event, there are no CLI flags to do that at the moment. The canvas format is very new, and not part of the standard markdown format. There is a public specification for it, but it's up to developers to make applications supporting it.

Canvas has been an open standard since its release.

As far as I know, any API that can be used by end users and plugin developers (as described in the previous post) is considered public. You can find the API repo here and definitions in this file.

The .canvas format is a simple JSON-based format that is designed to be easy to parse. We've already seen several plugins leverage this and hope to see even more tools outside of Obsidian. You can see the spec here.