@TfTHacker Tbh, Canvas came out of left field for me. It wasn’t something I was wishing for or expecting, though I played with it when it came out. So far I really only use mindmaps for brainstorming, and I still find #Scapple a little quicker and easier to use for that (just drag a node to another node to connect them). I also prefer Scapple’s straight connector lines to Canvas’s squiggly ones.

I know you can link to stuff in your vault, and I may find a use for #Obsidian Canvas eventually.

@MelRootsNWrites thanks for mentioning #Scapple. I wasn’t familiar with it, although I’ve used #Scrivener for years. I think I will give it a try. As for making charts like you showed of DNA matches, I actually put them into #Reunion and generate charts that way. Sometimes into an Ancestry tree. I put the # of cM as a suffix after the name. Works pretty well and also I’ve preserved the data in tree format that can be exported as a Gedcom at any point. #GeneticGenealogy

Now I have to ponder whether or not to purchase #Scapple to keep the interactive files accessible. An alternative would be to re-draw the three distinct versions of the #Stemma in another program from which I can export more common formats. Suggestions?

Update on the #Scapple .scap files. I downloaded the trial version of Scapple so I could open the files. They all contain interactive versions of the #EthicaComplementoria #Stemma. I have all of these also as static images in PNG and PDF formats. But they are not editable. Investigating export formats from Scapple, none are useful for me. The OPML format (an XML variant) cannot be imported by drawing tools like draw.io. #FunWithFormats #DataRecovery #RDM #ResearchDataManagement

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

@ankteckningar @ajlewis2 I like Canvas and I know it’s going to keep getting better and better, but it still hasn’t replaced #Scapple for me as a quick, down-and-dirty thinking tool. I just find it faster and less fussy to use, and so far I’m finding I can keep more text visible on the screen at once.

I expect I’ll be using Canvas for more formal, structured uses where I want to be able to link to stuff in my vault.

Great post, BTW!

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Oh. I still love #Scapple and thought the same thing.

How many tools might #Obsidian make redundant while still being future proof?

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