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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by randomluck040 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:52PM (#34072372)
Also I would argue that you can rather simply write a parser for the basic markdown syntax and convert it to e.g. HTML or plain text if necessary by getting rid of markdown specific syntax.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by spiderice on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:01PM (#34072481)
Maybe many people on HN can do this. A lot fewer people than that on HN want to do it. And many people who use Markdown outside of HN can't do it.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by randomluck040 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:05PM (#34072538)
Realistically, only a few people have to do it and open source a toolkit. Also I don’t really think that we’ll have that issue with markdown because it’s widespread and rather well established. This doesn’t invalidate your point, which I absolutely agree with.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by randomluck040 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:06PM (#34072559)
Also it’s not true for the file format for canvas which is probably way harder to parse correctly.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by pillefitz on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:31PM (#34075063)
Way harder means what? An extra 3 days of effort to the future open source Obsidian clone?
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by jay3ss on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:08PM (#34073398)
Or use pandoc[0] to convert a markdown file to an HTML file (and many other file types)

[0]: https://pandoc.org/

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas by quickthrower2 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:29PM (#34076297)
Markdown is plain text, with conventions. To lose the ability ti see your data would requiring us to lose utf8 encoding which is unlikely as it is self perpetuating.
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