Allow Flexible Resizing/Moving of Connection TextBox & Arrows in Canvas

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@jentrepreneurj

Here, I don’t have the ability to adjust the textbox for the “connection text”, and it gets blocked by the chunky textbox

@harr

I wish Obsidian had a smarter layout engine, that would resolve those cases automatically:

• wrap labels to fit available space
• adjust curvature of edges so that edges originating from same point don’t overlap

I have also written about similar problems in this feature request:

Canvas elements respect other elements in their arrangement / Alternative logic for arranging elements on the canvas

Use case or problem As I wrote earlier in a couple of my comments: … one of the drawbacks of canvas is that elements do not take into account other elements in their arrangement, which makes canvas look less visually presentable, less visually ordered, and, as a result, the information visualized on it becomes harder to read and understand. My suggestion is that canvas elements should take other elements into account when arranging themselves. As is clear from my two comments above, this ap…

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@jentrepreneurj

Here, somehow the arrows get jumbled up and looks extremely untidy. There’s no option to move parts of the arrows away, nor are there algorithm to de-jumble these arrows, making the experience of notetaking much less pleasant.

Other feature requests that may help with this problem:

• Canvas > Using dot to make complex arrow connections in Canvas
• Canvas: Arrows of rectangular shape