Show a complete preview of the canvas (including text) when a canvas is embedded in a note

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Use case or problem

This allows for easier implementation of canvases hand-in-hand with notes.

Proposed solution

A well-sized image of the canvas being referenced could be portrayed, similar to how images already work in obsidian.

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@Yawnxer you are referring to something like this, right?

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Problem:

I cant use Canvas as a Mindmap inside a note because ![[Example_Canvas]] only shows empty blocks with no text in it

Proposed solution

an easy solution would be to enable the ! preview command fully so that also the text inside the blocks are shown inside the note

added value to obsidian

I think that being able to fully display a canvas inside a note is a big and important step for obsidian. Right now people have to make screenshots of the canvas and put them in the note. Canvas is such a great and amazing tool - lets expand the usecase to notes!

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this would be really useful, the current state of embedding canvases without any content is almost useless…

I understand how this would be a pain to render for liek really large canvases but for small diagrams I think this should b a basic feature

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There should at least be an option todo this. This would completely eradicate the excalidraw plugin use case for me

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+1 for this feature. Thanks!

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It’s been stated in other threads ( [1], [2] ), that the obsidian team is working on this. Those threads are almost 2 years old (this one too), maybe we can get a status update? I get that there are probably higher priorities, just curious about whether this feature is in the pipeline, and where in it – or if we should lower our expectations?

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Showing some content (even just the group name) instead of several placeholder blocks will be more useful imho.

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This would proof super helpful for mind maps inside notes.
Just having general shapes is useless most of the time, “assuming” the general shape of a system might be fancy and all but I wouldn’t want to switch to another file just for a tiny “Word-SmartArt like” Overview.
Maybe a additional parameter in the Embed could help. I do not know the exact architecture of obsidian, but if it works like that something along the lines of ![[canvas.canvas|canvasName|true]] would be helpful, for enabling text rendering.
Possibly also for only a single layer (not recursive) to limit visual clutter.