Arc Easels

Easels provides a super-powered whiteboards (like an Obsidian canvas) where you can collect Captures from the internet and make them your own. You can draw, write, or add images to them.

Easels are for collecting your ideas as you browse the internet. When you capture a website, it actually includes an interactive thumbnail of the site along with a link to the original website that you can click to visit it (Pinterest-like).

Creating a Easel is easy with a hotkey (Ctl-Shift-e), take a Capture (Shift-Cmd-2) screenshot and you can save them to an Easel. Just use the Share button to view an Easel on any browser, but they can only be edited in Arc; this means that you can include external links in Obsidian (or OmniFocus) to Arc Easels.

To learn more, just watch this YouTube video Collect Your Internet on how to capture & create easels from the Arc Resources website. Ellis Hamburger (yes, that’s his real name) shows how to use Easels for things like trip planning, projects, wanted lists, annotated mockups, and dashboard. In fact, they have weekly easels for their release notes. Really amazing stuff, and so cool!

I’m exploring how I might use Easels as a Dashboard for my Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Notes in Obsidian. It could also be a great addition to my Home Note, Journals, Logs, Plans, or Reviews. Really powerful.