I want to lock position of some cards that I frequently use to prevent accidental movement of the card.
Locking single card will be as easy as setting a color of a card.
What about bringing reading view mode of normal markdown file additionally?
Depending on the zoom level you can accidentally click the edge of a node an resize it rather than move it. When you have OCD and do not notice you did this immediately it turns into a mad session of resizing nodes to be similar.
Add a right click->Lock Dimensions, option for all types of nodes on a canvas.
Pay careful attention and hit ctrl-z when you do this.
I also would look for a feature like, this, and I’ll add my use case:
I build Canvas boards as a way to visually lay out my notes grouped by different areas of focus. I use them as “dashboards”. Once I lay out a “dashboard”, I still want to be able to easily edit/update the content within those notes from the dashboard, but rarely want to change the layout/sizing of the canvas cards themselves.
My use case calls for less granular control, but the following would possibly work
Pay careful attention and hit ctrl-z when you do this.
+1 for this feature. Canvas + Tasks + Dataview is a powerful combo for creating “Dashboards”, and I’d really like to be able to lock the layout/size of a set of cards so I can still edit these cards (including swapping the file for my daily note) but reduce faff of mistakenly moving around cards.
+1 would love this. Frustrating.
+1 - I’m a little surprised this isn’t a core feature of the canvas.
The entire canvas can be locked from the settings menu in the top right.
But I agree that there could be some improvements to it. Compiling the ones I’ve seen in this thread and in the forum:
As a new user of Obsidian, this is literally the only thing I don’t like about Obsidian. If I just got a “lock item” option on canvas, I don’t think I could see myself using anything else ever. Praying for the day this gets implemented!
Would love for this to be added. In my case, I deal with a huge amount of groups for categorizations and sometimes I want to resize the group and subgroups without affecting the nodes.
+1 for card lock. If this feature is available, one can do Cornell notes , dashboards easily using other plugins like dataview. I’m interested in Cornell notes structure to be created. currently canvas resizes every card based on the card content which is frustrating.
any idea when such a feature is planned?
+1 for card locking;
In my writing vault I use the canvases to make Relationship Trees, and locking my Main Person(s) so I don’t accidentally mess with where they are at or their size as I am working around them would be incredibly useful while creating the canvases. They can become incredibly large, so being able to lock it piece-by-piece would be more ideal a solution for me than Locking-All the Canvas.