There is no white-walled room, pre-recorded, distillation of the essence of chamfered edges here… or talk about liquid anything. This post is about how Signboard is quickly becoming so feature-rich you likely won’t use them all.
Signboard 1.5 just shipped and the landing page has been updated.
This release brings much tighter Obsidian integration (including a plugin which will be released into the community there soon) with linked notes, full folder conversion and support for Base file generation. What does all of this mean? That placing your Signboard board folder into your Obsidian Vault makes it super powerful to use the two apps side-by-side.
Here’s a Signboard + Obsidian use case; these days we’re recording and transcribing everything. Zoom and phone calls. We’re pulling down entire websites into Markdown. Allowing agents to run amok all over the web gathering research for us. Where do you put all of this data? Everyone is using Obsidian for this of course. Signboard isn’t the right place. Signboard is where you track what you need to get done, what you’re doing, and what you’ve completed. But now you can link a card with an Obsidian note or folder.
This is far more useful than it may seem. And agents know how to use it too. So now your Signboard cards, which can link other things like images and videos and documents, become your one-stop shop for everything you need to get your work done.
This release of Signboard also brings a more dense table view (in addition to the already powerful calendar, this week, day, and agenda views in the planner area).
Signboard 1.5 also extends the number of boards you can have open at once from 6 boards to unlimited boards. I find the board switcher (CMD + K) to be critical to switching between my projects. But, what I love is that the planner view brings them all together in one place – no matter how many boards I have open in Signboard.
You can also keep your system calendar up-to-date with any tasks or cards that have due dates in your Signboards by publishing a local calendar feed.
I’m super happy with where Signboard is today. There are a few little bugs in this build that I’m hoping to have buttoned up in a future bug release, but for now it has more features than most people will likely ever need. Enjoy!