An architectural comparison of Obsidian Canvas and Heptabase(www.fluxlinks.com)
34 pointsby ezrasu7 hours ago6 comments
  • kepano8 minutes ago
    Seems to be an AI-generated ad, and not particularly well researched. Obsidian has supported links in Canvas since 1.12

    > Added detection for backlinks in Canvas files. They now appear in the Backlinks view, and count as links in the Graph view.

    https://obsidian.md/changelog/2026-02-27-desktop-v1.12.4/

  • darkteflon35 minutes ago
    Bit surprised to hear that it doesn’t link notes in Obsidian. It seems strange to go to the trouble of implementing a visual graph later on top of a vault but then not even offer an optional setting to have those links create e.g. wikilinks.
  • SeriousM6 hours ago
    The classical A vs B, but recommend C at the end post.
  • wduquette4 hours ago
    Tinderbox has been providing this kind of card-centric structure for a very long time now.
    • ezrasu4 hours ago
      At a fundamental level, they are indeed the same; much like Notion, Obsidian, or Roam Research—when you strip all these note-taking apps down to their core, they are essentially no different from an ER diagram.
    • vladsanchez4 hours ago
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  • jackfreeman4 hours ago
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  • denverllc7 hours ago
    Is this spam?
    • ezrasu7 hours ago
      I’m not sure—I just posted a blog post that I’d spent two or three days writing. Could you tell me why [there’s an issue]? I am very sorry.
      • not-kinsale-joe6 hours ago
        —
      • threecheese6 hours ago
        If you say you wrote it, I'll read it. I commit to this.

        We can all throw questions like this at our LLMs, and the objections you'll see here revolve around having our time wasted by folks who believe their LLM output is an accomplishment; we're getting sick of it.

    • nilsandrey7 hours ago
      I'm curious why would you think is spam.
    • felixg37 hours ago
      It’s not and seems very human-written. Thanks to OP, I was actually dealing with this topic at work recently, so it was very helpful to read.
      • ezrasu6 hours ago
        Glad it helped! Really appreciate you chiming in.
    • 6 hours ago
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