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Obsidian Canvas uses a new JSON-based file format that we have open-sourced under MIT license. You can see the spec here:

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...

Just like all other files in Obsidian, canvas files are your own and local to your device. You're still linking to your own Markdown files which are just as future-proof as ever.

We decided to create the .canvas format because there wasn't any pre-existing canvas-type format we could find that fit our priorities around longevity, readability, interoperability and extensibility.

The .canvas format is designed to be as easy to parse as possible. We've already seen a few plugins take advantage of it, and we hope that more tools will become available that can use the .canvas format.

parent kepano 3 years ago

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