It would be really nice if we could create a new card with a keyboard shortcuts. Just an unconnected new card at the beginning would be enough but later it would nice to add relative to a connected cards e.g. new sibling, new parent, new child cards.
Proposed solution
This feature is supported in every other mindmapping, charting tool, so it’s an easy copy from those tools.
Proposed solution:
While a card is selected but not being edited the following key would do the following commands.
Enter - create a sibling card
Ctrl + Enter - create a child card
Shift + Enter - create a parent card
Was going to make a new FR till I saw this one. Sounds related so adding onto this FR
Would like a hotkey for adding cards as well as the other actions associated with the bottom tool bar of the canvas (add card, add note from vault, add media from vault).
Use case
Having to keep jumping back to the mouse to drag & drop a card from the bottom tool bar icon feels clunky. The context menu is nice but IMHO a hotkey would be quicker. Would make it easier using the Canvas at the same pace as the thoughts that are occurring to me when in the midst of processing/ breaking down my ideas
Those options are reasonable as well. I was aware of those options but was hoping for something a little faster hence the hotkeys
When doing my studies in school I use an iPad with a keyboard. I find the current options cumbersome when having to do these actions over & over. This is due to having to keep jumping back to the screen each time to drag the icon or double clicking each time. Hence the FR
Do appreciate the suggestion, though. This is what I am doing until there is a better option that comes along
On a new canvas, there is a one time message to touch and hold to add a new card.
Since starting on Obsidian Mobile 1.4.x touch and hold might work the first time on a new canvas, but after that it could be up to 33 touches before the menu will appears to add a card, make a group, etc, it’s rather impossible to use canvas on iOS for iPhone…hardly use a feature I’d love to use. I conclude the impossible word because there is no way to link a vault from iOS/Apple cloud to a non-Apple PC.
There needs to be a button to display the menu instead of relying on the touch screen. Add at the bottom of the existing on the right side.
You mentioned xmind. have you found a way to get your xmind mind map into obsidian and if yes how do you do that. I am looking for mindmap (not excalidraw or plugin) that i can create online or offline but easily integrate into obsidian
Use case: do a mind map on paper, transcribing it to obsidian. Have dozens of nodes to enter. Tedious to do lots of double clicking, when just want to rapidly type words and hit enter, then drag them around later.
Workaround: hack up a python script to dump a bunch of typed out lines as nodes in the json
The laziest way to implement it would be a keybind to make a new card in the center of the canvas, which would be better than not having the keybind. All the new cards getting stacked on top of each other, or slightly offset (x,y) positions so they are cascaded a bit, whatever. I’ll end up dragging them all around anyway.
For a little more effort, something like the OPs proposed solution makes sense. If only one keybind, I’d suggest new card immediately to the right of the last selected card, or immediately below also is ok.
