Using Canvas

[a2jc4life]

Two-part question:

1. Canvas should currently be treated as something of an “add-on,” right? Not for core content, because it’s more GUI-based and less future-proofed?

2. With that said, how are you personally using Canvas?

[HeavenIdeas]

I’ve recently started to experiment using it as a dashboard for my periodic notes.

So far I’ve created a template for January 2023 and have already done 2 weeks worth of daily notes.

I want to finish the month before I update this post with more details:

CANVAS + Periodic Notes template for reviewing your month

Hey everyone! I’ve just started experimenting with a way to use CANVAS to visualize my month. I use Periodic Notes and have Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly notes. I use it mostly for work related stuff since there are tons of things to remember and millions of meetings… This is how I’ve structured the canvas. The main idea is that this would be a template for each month. Where you have your Monthly note at center (In my case I’ve narrowed the scope to the Month Summary). Branching out from t…

But it’s actually becoming my preferred way of working with daily notes.

Having the whole week at a glance and even with context of previous weeks has been great.

In any case I’ll give more updates soon.

Hope that helps