Automatically Focus and Zoom to the Source Note When Opening a Canvas from Backlinks

Feature requests
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In the latest version (v1.12.1), backlinks to Canvas have been implemented, which is a great improvement. However, the current behavior still feels incomplete.

Currently, when I am viewing Note A and click on Canvas B from the backlink pane (because Note A is embedded in Canvas B), Obsidian opens Canvas B — but it does not automatically focus on or zoom into Note A inside the Canvas.

What I would like is the following behavior:

When I click a Canvas backlink:

  1. Open the Canvas

  2. Automatically locate the original note (Note A) inside the Canvas

  3. Focus on it and zoom in so that it is centered and immediately visible

This would significantly improve navigation, especially when working with large Canvases that contain many notes. At the moment, after opening the Canvas, I still need to manually search for and zoom into the relevant note.

This auto-focus behavior is already implemented in the Advanced Canvas plugin.

Thank you.