A Summary for canvas plugin

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I want to collect some very useful canvas plugins into this post, which are less known but very useful.

It should be noted that there are duplications of features between plugins.

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navigation between different nodes using arrow keys and nodes creation

plugin: Quorafind/Obsidian-Canvas-MindMap

moving elements on the board

Native support

collapsing/expanding nodes

Plugin: Quorafind/Obsidian-Collapse-Node

creation of links between nodes

Plugin: obsidian-semantic-canvas-plugin

  • properties key:value
    • key is text on link edges
    • value is wiki links - [[xxx]]

Node auto resize (height/height and width)

Quorafind/Obsidian-Node-Auto-Resize (github.com)

Search in canvas

Quorafind/Obsidian-Search-In-Canvas

Editable canvas embed in canvas

Developer-Mike/obsidian-advanced-canvas

Editable canvas embed in notes

Quorafind/Obsidian-Templify

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Splitting and Merging cards

borolgs/enchanted-canvas

  • Copying styles
  • Merging and splitting cards
  • Custom shapes, currently only square and circle
  • Hotkey for creating new cards or stickers in a row
  • Patched context menu and popup menu

canvas block links like native block links

A plugin allows you to refer card or group in canvas, and then click to jump.

Quorafind/Obsidian-Canvas-Block-Reference

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Canvas minimap

ifree/Obsidian-canvas-minimap

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Set the canvas card style without writing cssclasses

michaellw/Obsidian-Canvas-Style-Menu

Customize canvas styles seamlessly through the canvas menu and support styles extension using CSS snippets.

No need to write cssclasses means the same note can be presented in different styles in different canvases.

I made different sizes css for the cards from xxs to xxl to represent their importance.
example and css Discord

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I think ‘Simple Canvas Search’ works better than ‘Obsidian-Search-In-Canvas’ based on my 5 mins of using the later plugin.