Obsidian Canvas
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Obsidian Canvas is an infinite space within the Obsidian app for research, brainstorming, diagramming, and laying out ideas, described as 'a limitless playground for your mind.' It is a feature of Obsidian, a free and flexible note-taking app that stores notes locally as plain text Markdown files. Canvas lets users visually arrange and connect notes, ideas, and other content on an unbounded surface. Obsidian also offers linking, graph visualization, plugins, sync, and publishing capabilities around this core note-taking experience.
What it's for
Features 17
- Bidirectional linking between notes
- Collaboration on shared vaults
- Command-line interface (CLI)
- Customizable publish site themes and custom domains
- Daily notes
- End-to-end encrypted sync across devices (Obsidian Sync)
- Infinite canvas for research, brainstorming, diagramming, and laying out ideas
- Interactive graph view of note relationships
- Local storage of notes as plain text Markdown files
- Mobile app support
- One year of version history per note
- Open API for building plugins and themes
- Publish notes to the web as a wiki, knowledge base, or digital garden (Obsidian Publish)
- Selective sync of images, audio, video, and PDFs
- Tagging for organizing ideas
- Thousands of community plugins and themes
- Web Clipper
Pricing
Core Obsidian app is free without limits and requires no sign-up. Sync and Publish are optional paid add-on services with monthly or annual billing. Catalyst and Commercial licenses and Obsidian Credit are non-refundable; Sync and Publish offer full refunds within 7 days. Bulk purchase/enterprise pricing available via email inquiry.
Optional add-on service for syncing notes across devices.
Per user, per month; billed monthly or annually
Optional add-on service for publishing notes online.
Per site, per month; billed monthly or annually
Students and faculty members are eligible for a 40% discount on Obsidian Sync and Publish.