Canvas (Obsidian plugin)
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Pros
- I have German copies of Evergreen and Canvas. Might need to look up an icon the first time, but once you click the iconography "language" it plays great. Also the artworks in Canvas feel more "grand" with German titles...
- Yes, I use the Canvas exactly for this! (I'm a 4th-year PhD doing a lot of lit reviews and other types of writing)
- As far as a whiteboard I’ve found using canvas pretty helpful just to add a further visual dimension to things that I can manually “set” and play around with and graph out relationships easier and more in depth than the default graph vie...
- I find canvas very useful for mapping out hierarchy and interaction between files. My vault has a lot of processes and systems in it.
- If you just want to "feel" the relationships, canvas is sufficient.
Cons
- To visualize structure I use draw.io, you may be using excalidraw or canvas, but they all have the problem that they aren't well integrated into the system. They are mostly monolithic solutions and don't break the idea of structural rela...
- I wish you could scroll like this on obsidian canvas.
- The thing I hate most is that once you zoom out a little you lose all detail. I have a canvas that I kind of nice for planning a project but I can never zoom out.
- Obsidian Canvas is slow as heck, you add some 100 nodes and it takes many seconds to load and redraw when moving around.
- I like canvas for quick process diagramming, flow charting, a mix of the visual with words, descriptions, links. I find canvas, for me, a tool that I mix and match with Excalidraw and apps outside of obsidian like Concepts. ... Canvas is...
Sentiment
40 positive (57%) · 13 mixed (19%) · 17 negative (24%)
Trust + time weighted score: +33% · raw score 33%
What redditors said (10 of 70)
To visualize structure I use draw.io, you may be using excalidraw or canvas, but they all have the problem that they aren't well integrated into the system. They are mostly monolithic solutions and don't break the idea of structural relations down into smaller pieces.
To visualize structure I use draw.io, you may be using excalidraw or canvas, but they all have the problem that they aren't well integrated into the system. They are mostly monolithic solutions and don't break the idea of structural relations down into smaller pieces.
I wish you could scroll like this on obsidian canvas.
I have German copies of Evergreen and Canvas. Might need to look up an icon the first time, but once you click the iconography "language" it plays great. Also the artworks in Canvas feel more "grand" with German titles...
Yes, I use the Canvas exactly for this! (I'm a 4th-year PhD doing a lot of lit reviews and other types of writing)
As far as a whiteboard I’ve found using canvas pretty helpful just to add a further visual dimension to things that I can manually “set” and play around with and graph out relationships easier and more in depth than the default graph view allows.
The thing I hate most is that once you zoom out a little you lose all detail. I have a canvas that I kind of nice for planning a project but I can never zoom out.
Obsidian Canvas is slow as heck, you add some 100 nodes and it takes many seconds to load and redraw when moving around.
I find canvas very useful for mapping out hierarchy and interaction between files. My vault has a lot of processes and systems in it.
I like canvas for quick process diagramming, flow charting, a mix of the visual with words, descriptions, links. I find canvas, for me, a tool that I mix and match with Excalidraw and apps outside of obsidian like Concepts. ... Canvas isn't perfect -- and I'd love for the developers to revisit it once more important needs are taken care of (Basses, mobile, etc.). It works for me.
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