Anyone seen a note-taking app where you can just drag and drop sentences, paragraphs, notes etc. Into buckets/folders or similar types of divides. Perhaps like https://speare.com - would really like an easier way to collect together refs than exhausting copy and paste. For my book I ended up printing out notes, cutting them up, and arranging them in stacks. Was great fun but I find it insane there is not any... Source: 12 months ago

Is there a function on Obsidian - or any other application - where you can just drag and drop sentences, paragraphs, notes etc. (or atomic notes) into buckets/folders or similar types of divides. The notes are small - sometimes a sentence or a clause - and for that reason I don't tend to use Obsidian due to having to make a note title for each file. I am looking more for something like https://speare.com - an... Source: 12 months ago

To fix this, I added a digital whiteboard to my workflow, and this is phenomenal. You can use any digital whiteboard, such as https://www.figma.com/figjam/, https://excalidraw.com/, https://miro.com/, or https://obsidian.md/canvas. My workflow generally goes like:. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

The spec basically fits on a page: https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/ Summary: "node: { type: ..., x/y/color }; edge: { from/to: ..., color/label/... }" Refreshingly simple, especially paired with their "gif of usage": https://obsidian.md/canvas. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Even when they step away from Markdown, like for example the canvas feature (https://obsidian.md/canvas), they make sure to build it on top of JSON files instead of inventing a more proprietary format. Does any of the competition use it? Not that I'm aware of. If Obsidian disappeared tomorrow, could anyone reasonably replicate it? Yes. If you don't want to pay for sync, you have other options. If you want to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Obsidian add a Canvas document type in the last year that you may be interested in. https://obsidian.md/canvas. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Obsidian has an in-build first party plugin called Canvas that might be good for what you're interested in. Source: 11 months ago