Writing Using Canvas and Kanban in Obsidian

Obsidian now contains a set of tools that are quite similar — at least in part — to what Scrintal or Scrivener offers to researchers and writers.

I’ve written in the past about using the Kanban plug-in in Obsidian as a support for writing: see Card-Based Writing in Obsidian Using Kanban. I described the use of the Kanban as a means to aggregate materials for my Work Futures newsletter:

When I find something to add to the newsletter, I often want to add commentary, so I might export the original material to a new note, which a/ leaves behind a link from the daily note to the new text, and b/ then I make comments. Then I return to the kanban workboard, and transclude the new file into a kanban card. For long texts I would select the initial paragraph in a transclusion like ![[Sull and Sull - Great Resignation#^15f708]]].

I can use the drag and drop features of the Kanban plugin to reorder cards in a list or move from one list to another, for example.

A kanban workboard can be manipulated and viewed as either a kanban workboard or as a…