I love Obsidian. I love Canvases.
But without prominently visible and distinguishable links to and from canvases I’ve lost any meaningful overview of my vault!
I am increasingly organizing my Obsidian world around heavily nested Canvases. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Canvases are top level maps of content. These link to canvases that are category-wide maps of content. These link to clusters of related material with associated discussion. Canvases are Project-level workspaces that link to content that might be spread out all over hell and gone. Those canvases point to content from different categories. They also link to canvases used as small task-level free form workspaces. If one of those tasks produces something of general interest it may be linked to both from other projects and from high level collections of important results. And so on…
In short, the visual, spatial outlay of a canvases are wildly superior for seeing the structure of linked content than as compared with the linear organization of a note. Notes are for content and certainly include a lot of cross linking. But a linked network of canvases is, at least for me, a far superior way to organize my world.
The problem being that this organization is reflected nowhere in lists of links or graph view. Which in a sense breaks the very core principle of Obsidian.
My recommendation would be not to just treat canvases as notes, but as a special class of notes. There should be canvas links and note links. They should appear as such when listing incoming and outgoing links.
In Graph Views, Canvases should appear in a different color than notes, and links to or between canvases should appear in different colors than links between notes.
Canvas Links are the essential skeleton of the interlinked and recursively nested structure of my vaults. AND THEY ARE INVISIBLE.