Canvas: Add properties/YAML tied to a canvas (as a whole)

[WhiteNoise]

Maybe this:

Canvas: Ability to link to a specific group / a selected section / a card of a Canvas

Use case or problem I can link to a sticky note / a selected group from Excalidraw inside a note. If Canvas offers this card / group of card reference, it would be super powerful. Proposed solution Select a group / a card > Copy reference > Paste it in a note. When I hover the link, I can see preview at the specific group / card inside that Canvas. Even better, I can embed like example below. [2022-12-15_11.11.19_CSX] Current workaround (optional) Using Excalidraw

[ZoltObsi]

I’d Like this too. Thanks for considering!

[Libby]

Lol guys the obsidian team has been working on a single feature for months now with no visible progress do you really think they’re going to get around to this? Within the past 12 months they have basically released nothing other than a couple of mobile improvements, a couple paid features, and a browser plugin. (We don’t even have a reasonable way to organize notes yet. I guess that’s what the new “Bases” dataview thing is supposed to turn into. Let’s just hope it doesn’t require a degree in computer engineering to write the queries.)

It would be great to be able to tag canvas files like regular notes, but based on the excruciatingly slow pace of development, I’m not holding my breath.

This feature much more likely to come in the form of a plugin.

[Libby]

In fact given what I’ve seen in the past several years, I would never submit a new feature request as it is likely to be fruitless (or take years to develop) and would instead focus 100% of my efforts on developing a plugin. I do believe this is by design as they would prefer regular income from service subscriptions like sync instead of being on the hook for actually improving the software.

[churnish]

Advanced Canvas has this feature.

[alwaysusa]

I agree. They should lower the price.

[Jii]

I would add my vote here as well!

With the introduction of “Bases”, my Canvases always gets missed because i can’t add any properties to them for indexing.

[bangbangbanghit]

+1, would love to have properties for a canvas, then be able to add properties to a canvas in bases

[Faynore]

+1 for this! Was searching all over to see if there was a way to add canvas to bases, but so far nothing. Being able to add properties (which then are used in bases) with tags could be a life saver for me. I want to make a bases overview with the multiple canvas files I have, but so far no good.

[lungenstrudel]

+1. Having properties on canvases would make them much more usable with Obsidian Bases.

[PolythenePam]

+1 for this. Are there any plans to implement?

[jorosy]

Hopefully the property and tag can even extend further beyond to whatever file format we throw into obsidian vault, PDF, ebook, audio record, image, media.. etc. Given the base that is so powerful at current state, this turns base into amazing library management for any file and attachment.

[chipaaco]

I would love this to happen, I take notes just with canvas files pasting svgs, organizing them in bases, it’s quite limited and painful taks to do without this feature.