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jaimex2 on Dec 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for y...

Is it strange that they made a whole bunch of thick clients for what should have been a browser based product?

Least they made a Linux client, good on em.

Edit. Read more, I get the clients now. Wow. Its so rare to see products think about not locking in.

kepano on Dec 21, 2022 [–]

Obsidian is designed to work offline using local files on your device, and us optimized for E2E encryption which so it would be more complicated to do as a web-based app.

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