Excalidraw

New

• 🚀🎉🍾 Added inline link autocomplete to text element editing and element link editing. Simply start typing "[[" as you would in a normal markdown document.
  • ‼️ removed add link button element-link editor on desktop
  • ‼️ removed add link from context menu on desktop
  • ‼️ added new setting under "Links, transclusion and TODOs" Sync text-element link with text
  • The default behavior is OFF, because it feels more natural to manage the element link separately.
  • When enabled (ON), Excalidraw matches pre-2.19.0 behavior: the first link in the text body is always copied to the element link field. SVG/PNG exports only keep links when the element link field holds a single link (not links inside the text body). Turn this ON if you rely on text-body links and want the element link to always mirror the first one. Turn it OFF if you manage the element link separately: for metadata like tags, inline link ontologies, or multiple links, e.g., dataview-style notes like '(reminds me of:: [[link]]) #noteToSelf'.
• LaTeX formula is saved to element.customData.latex. This can be helpful for various automation use cases.
• Implemented Color Picker in Custom Pen Settings to pick from the current view's color palette.
• Updated the Scribble Helper script with the new Color Picker to select the text color.
• Updated the Shade Maser script with the new Color Picker to select the shading color.
• Mindmap Builder
  • Uses new sidepanel, persistent across different drawings and autostarts with Obsidian.
  • You can now configure hotkeys
  • Allows editing node text in place
  • You can define your own color palette for branches
  • Improved auto-layout algorithm to work better with larger subtrees
  • Includes inline link suggester
  • Image and Embeddable nodes

Fixed

• Floating modal used by Excalidraw scripts did not work correctly in Obisidian popout windows.
• In onPaste if imageElement.customData.latex is present, it will treat the pasted images as a LaTeX formula, even if copied from Excalidraw.com or another Obsidian Vault.

New & fixed in ExcalidrawAutomate

• ea.toClipboard() will now include the DataURL for included images from ea.imagesDict
• Implemented Excalidraw Sidepanel API for ExcalidrawAutomate. Scripts can now create custom Obsidian sidepanel tabs in the Excalidraw Sidepanel.
  • New Command Palette action: "Open Excalidraw Sidepanel" will toggle the sidepanel visibility.
  • The demo script making full use of the new sidepanel API is Mindmap Builder.
  • ExcalidrawAutomate full library for LLM training.md includes all necessary training information to use sidepanels.
• Added palette popover helper showColorPicker() (also used in Pen Settings and Mindmap Builder) to pick from the current view's canvas/element palettes.
• Added inline link suggester helper attachInlineLinkSuggester() returning a KeyBlocker interface so host scripts can suppress their own keydown handlers while the suggester is active.

New functions in ExcalidrawAutomate. See also SidepanelTab type definition.

sidepanelTab: ExcalidrawSidepanelTab | null;
checkForActiveSidepanelTabForScript(scriptName?: string): ExcalidrawSidepanelTab | null;
createSidepanelTab(title: string, persist?: boolean, reveal?: boolean): Promise<ExcalidrawSidepanelTab | null>;
getSidepanelLeaf(): WorkspaceLeaf | null;
toggleSidepanelView(): void;
persistSidepanelTab(): ExcalidrawSidepanelTab | null;
attachInlineLinkSuggester(inputEl: HTMLInputElement, widthWrapper?: HTMLElement): KeyBlocker;
getViewColorPalette(palette: "canvasBackground"|"elementBackground"|"elementStroke"): (string[] | string)[];
showColorPicker(anchorElement: HTMLElement, palette: "canvasBackground"|"elementBackground"|"elementStroke", includeSceneColors: boolean = true): Promise<string | null>;

• setView() improvements
  • Calling setView() now picks a sensible target automatically:
  • It prefers the currently active Excalidraw view.
  • If no active Excalidraw view is found (e.g., the user is focused on a different tab like the File Explorer/sidebar), it will fall back to the last active Excalidraw view (as long as it is still available) — typically the drawing the user came from.
  • New selector: "auto" (equivalent to calling setView()).
  • Useful when you also want to reveal/focus the view: setView("auto", true).
  • Deprecated selectors: "active" and "first" are deprecated and kept only for backward compatibility.
  • Recommended usage is either setView(), setView("auto"), or setView(excalidrawView) (explicitly target a specific view).

setView(view?: ExcalidrawView | "auto" | "first" | "active" | null, show: boolean = false)