Greetings @ryanjamurphy
I took a look at Obsidian a while back for a data-driven web publishing project I am pondering in order to sort/discuss academic literature. I was disappointed initially in some lacking features. This week I came back and have been notably impressed with the advances the in the software over the past 1-2 years. Plus your Vantage plugin is absolutely perfect for the type of data I want to organize/present.
So I was thrilled… until I just realized that neither DataView nor Vantage Search will work with Obsidian Publish.
Your analysis is spot-on regarding the issues involved in “sharing linked thinking.” Clearly you have put a huge amount of effort into improving this part of the web.
That said - as much as I like the idea of “owning” my data on my local computer, perhaps the best solution to all of this is that it needs to be a true web app?
One solution would be for Obsidian to host a web server, similar to what Devonthink does.
But assuming that is unlikely to happen, what are your thoughts on Coda.io, which supports “linked thinking on the web” right out of the box: