Obsidian plugins with #canvas#

The Excalidraw plugin brings the Excalidraw sketching canvas into your vault and lets you create, edit and organise drawings alongside regular notes. It supports links between drawings and documents, embeds drawings in markdown, and can export synced PNG or SVG copies for use outside the canvas. The plugin also includes templates, markdown transclusion, image handling, LaTeX, block references and a large settings surface for display, filenames, auto export and compatibility behaviour. For heavier workflows it adds ExcalidrawAutomate, a script engine and tools for custom pens, OCR, SVG import and markdown snapshots.

The Advanced Canvas plugin enhances the canvas experience in Obsidian by introducing a suite of features for creating and managing visual layouts like presentations, flowcharts, and interactive diagrams. Users can customize node and edge styles, including shapes, colors, borders, and arrows. Additional functionalities include collapsible groups, portals for embedding canvases, auto-resizing nodes, focus mode, and a presentation mode for slide-based navigation. The plugin supports advanced commands for quick customization and interactions, allowing for seamless organization and visualization of complex ideas.

The Breadcrumbs plugin turns note relationships into a navigable structure with breadcrumb trails, tree and matrix views, and previous or next navigation across linked notes. It reads typed frontmatter links, tags, Markdown lists, folder notes, naming schemes such as Dendron or Johnny.Decimal, and Dataview queries, then derives implied relations from those links. A note's neighbourhood can be rendered inside a code block as a tree, a Mermaid diagram or an interactive Markmap view and that same structure can be exported to Canvas for further editing. It also supports custom transitive rules so larger vault hierarchies stay consistent and easier to traverse.

The Simple CanvaSearch plugin revolutionizes the way you navigate your Obsidian notes by introducing a fuzzy-search feature for your canvas page. With just a few clicks, you can quickly find specific notes and jump to their location on the canvas. This plugin's simplicity makes it easy to use, allowing you to focus on your work rather than navigating through complex menus or settings. Whether you're searching for note titles or contents, this plugin has got you covered, giving you instant access to the information you need.

The Canvas MindMap plugin is a creative tool that helps you visualize your ideas and thoughts in a mind map format. With this plugin, you can create a new canvas and start building your mind map by adding nodes, edges, and colors. The auto-layout feature allows you to arrange your nodes in a specific direction, giving your mind map a professional look. You can also select individual nodes or the entire tree structure for further customization. The plugin offers various hotkeys for quick navigation and node creation, making it easy to work with your mind map. Whether you're brainstorming ideas, planning projects, or organizing notes, the Canvas MindMap plugin is an excellent addition to your Obsidian toolkit.

The Charted Roots plugin turns a vault into a genealogy and worldbuilding workspace built around linked notes. It imports GEDCOM, GEDCOM X, Gramps XML and CSV data, keeps relationships in sync across notes and provides duplicate cleanup, schema validation and data quality checks. The plugin can open an interactive family chart for editing and exploration, generate canvas based trees with multiple layouts and produce printable tree charts in several export formats. It also adds map views, custom image maps, timeline style note content, evidence and source tracking, statistics, calendar views and a book builder for compiling reports and notes into one document. Universe and organization entities extend the same model to fictional settings.

The Canvas LLM Extender plugin enhances Obsidian's Canvas feature by integrating OpenAI's language model to dynamically generate text nodes. By connecting an OpenAI API key, users can right-click on a node in their canvas to invoke the plugin, which creates a new node with content generated based on the context of the selected and nearby nodes. Currently limited to text nodes, the plugin is ideal for users seeking AI-assisted brainstorming or idea expansion within their canvas workflows.

The Crafty plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who want to streamline their note-taking experience. This innovative tool allows you to quickly find and replace specific text patterns across all your notes, making it easy to standardize formatting and maintain consistency throughout your knowledge base. With Crafty, you can also use regular expressions to search and extract specific information from your notes, saving you time and reducing the risk of errors. Whether you're a busy professional or an avid learner, this plugin is sure to become a valuable addition to your Obsidian workflow.

The Canvas Links plugin enhances Obsidian by visually displaying the connections between canvas files and other notes within your vault. This feature allows users to better understand the relationships between their canvas and file content, aiding in organization and navigation. The plugin is designed to seamlessly integrate with Obsidian's canvas functionality, providing an intuitive way to visualize linked content without leaving the workspace.

The CardNote plugin for Obsidian is designed to help users quickly visualize and organize their notes in the Obsidian Canvas and Excalidraw plugins. It allows for easy creation of new notes and insertion of links into the canvas, enabling a seamless drag-and-drop experience. Users can quickly extract blocks from existing notes, including headings, paragraphs, and bullet points, and organize them visually. The plugin supports foldable blocks and markdown syntax, providing flexibility in managing notes. It also offers alternative methods for note creation and card view for better organization, making it a powerful tool for users who prefer a more visual approach to note management.

The Canvas2Document plugin enables the seamless conversion of Obsidian canvas structures into linear documents. It processes all canvas elements, including cards, notes, images, videos, and embedded media, into a cohesive document with organized metadata headers. The plugin allows users to retain connections from the canvas using metadata-based links and supports customization of the conversion process. This tool is ideal for transforming complex layouts, such as novels or startup plans, into structured, editable documents while maintaining flexibility for adjustments.

The Canvas Connect plugin enhances the Canvas workspace by intelligently managing node connection lines. It dynamically adjusts connection anchors in real-time, automatically selecting optimal anchor points based on node positions for better clarity. Users can manually trigger optimization for all connections through a simple command, with an optional subtle highlight indicating changes. The plugin settings allow customization of dynamic anchor behavior, visual feedback, and whether optimizations affect only the active canvas or all open canvases.

The Canvas Send to Back plugin allows users to easily adjust the layering of cards within the Obsidian Canvas feature. With this plugin, selected cards can be sent to the back of all other cards in the canvas, streamlining the organization and arrangement of elements. This is particularly useful for maintaining clear layouts and creating visually structured canvases.

The Collapse Node plugin enhances your Obsidian canvas experience by allowing you to efficiently manage the visibility of nodes. With features to collapse or expand all nodes, specific nodes, or selected nodes, this plugin streamlines workspace organization. Users can trigger these actions through commands, context menus, or by clicking directly on the header of nodes. It provides a simple way to keep your canvas tidy and focused, especially for projects with multiple interconnected ideas.

The Optimize Canvas Connections plugin helps improve the layout of connections between notes on an Obsidian canvas. As users brainstorm and rearrange their notes, the connections can become cluttered and difficult to follow. This plugin offers two optimization options: 'Shortest Path,' which reconnects notes using the nearest edges in the most direct way, and 'Preserve Axes,' which maintains the original directional flow of connections, ensuring vertical and horizontal relationships are respected. The plugin is especially useful for users who work with complex canvas layouts and want to streamline their note connections while preserving meaningful orientations like time or detail flow.

The Canvas Card Background Remover plugin allows users to make card backgrounds in Obsidian's Canvas transparent for specific embed types, including images, canvases, and markdown. This enhances the visual clarity and customization of embedded cards within canvas documents. Users can configure which card types are affected and adjust settings related to card display for a cleaner and more streamlined canvas appearance.

The Index Checker plugin for Obsidian helps ensure that your index files (MOCs or Canvas files) include all necessary links. The plugin allows you to define how index files are named and which files should be linked within them. It then verifies if any links are missing and provides the option to add them either directly into the index or to a separate file. The plugin offers flexibility, allowing users to organize their index files however they prefer while ensuring completeness. It is particularly useful for maintaining well-linked MOCs and Canvas files, with features such as customizable formatting and marking missing files in the file explorer.

The Lovely-Mindmap plugin is an innovative tool for creating interactive mindmaps and knowledge graphs directly within Obsidian's canvas. It offers intuitive keyboard shortcuts for seamless navigation and node creation, enhancing workflow efficiency. Users can create child and sibling nodes, move nodes with precision, and toggle between various views, including touch, navigation, and creation modes. Designed for accessibility, the plugin supports efficient keyboard-centric interactions. Additionally, it provides advanced customization options for layouts and node organization. With future plans for importing/exporting formats and layout adjustments, Lovely-Mindmap aims to make mindmapping in Obsidian both flexible and enjoyable.

The Canvas Explorer plugin enhances Obsidian's canvas feature by enabling users to create dynamic, customizable canvases from their note connections. It allows you to explore linked notes, ignore irrelevant ones, and generate a visually appealing canvas that preserves note connections. Features include customizable node dimensions, sorting notes by frontmatter or creation date, excluding specific sections, and color-coding notes based on connection counts. Additionally, it generates a summary node with concatenated content, providing a comprehensive overview of the explored topic.

The draw.io plugin adds the draw.io editor inside Obsidian and keeps the workflow local, with no internet requirement and a small local server handling the app. It supports interactive diagrams in reading mode, where shapes can open notes, external links, or attached markdown fragments. Diagrams can also hold richer embedded content, including markdown based blocks rendered inside the canvas. The plugin includes native Mermaid and LaTeX support from draw.io, and it can place diagrams inside Canvas with links and fragment driven content intact. Editing can be opened from commands, keyboard shortcuts, or context menus, so diagrams stay part of the normal note flow instead of becoming a separate export step.

The Node Auto Resize plugin enhances the Obsidian canvas by automatically resizing nodes to fit their content. As users update a node's content in the canvas view, the plugin adjusts the node dimensions dynamically, ensuring a clean and organized layout. It includes settings to enable width auto-resizing and to define a maximum width for nodes, giving users control over the visualization appearance. This feature is especially useful for maintaining clarity and structure in canvas-based workflows.

The Enhanced Canvas plugin improves the functionality of Obsidian's Canvas by automatically managing node connections and synchronizing them with note properties. When a node is added, it generates a property linking it to the corresponding Canvas file, making navigation seamless. Creating edges between nodes in Canvas establishes connections that appear in the Graph View as markdown links, enhancing networked note-taking. The plugin supports various file types, including nested Canvases, images, and PDFs. Additional features include automatic property synchronization, shortest path optimization for connections, and bidirectional link management between Canvas and notes.

The Canvas Mindmap Helper plugin enhances Obsidian's Canvas view by adding mind mapping functionality. It provides convenient commands to quickly add new cards and navigate between them using the keyboard. A key feature is the auto layout command, which automatically arranges the cards for a more organized view. Additionally, the plugin offers the option to trigger the auto layout whenever changes are made to the cards, helping users maintain a neat and structured visual representation of their ideas. This plugin is ideal for users looking to turn their Canvas view into a dynamic, interactive mind mapping tool.

The Canvas Link to Group plugin lets you create and use direct links to specific groups inside canvas files, allowing quick navigation across complex visual notes. You can right-click a group or use the command palette to copy a link and paste it into any note for one-click access. The plugin supports intuitive link handling - open in the same tab or a new one with modifier keys - making it suitable for both mouse and keyboard workflows. It also provides helpful notifications when links are invalid or when multiple groups share the same name, ensuring accurate navigation within large canvases.

The Canvas Link Optimizer plugin enhances the functionality of link nodes in Obsidian Canvas by replacing the default auto-loading of full web pages with preview thumbnails. This significantly reduces resource usage, addressing issues like high CPU and RAM consumption, loading delays, and potential security risks from auto-loaded content. The plugin improves workflow by minimizing visual distractions and preventing disruptions from autoplaying media. Users can still access full web pages by clicking on the thumbnails. It stores cached thumbnails locally without altering vault data, ensuring an optimized and secure canvas experience.

The Attachments MD Indexer plugin enhances the integration of Canvas files within Obsidian by generating Markdown index files. This allows Canvas files to appear in graph views, backlink panels, and outgoing link sections, making them function more like standard notes. The plugin ensures automatic synchronization, updating the index file whenever a Canvas file is modified or deleted. It improves compatibility with other plugins, enabling AI tools and search functions to access Canvas content.

The Caret plugin integrates local-first LLM capabilities directly into Obsidian, enabling users to utilize AI-powered features without relying on external services. Caret supports AI-enhanced conversations through chat logs stored as markdown files and integrates with the Obsidian Canvas for non-linear, visual workflows. It is compatible with various local and remote LLMs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and custom models. All generated data remains within the user's vault, adhering to strict privacy principles. The plugin's design focuses on preserving user autonomy and enhancing productivity while offering flexibility through customizable AI integration.

The Galaxy View plugin replaces the standard graph with a cinematic 3D view where notes appear as luminous nodes linked by curved or straight filaments inside a layered deep space backdrop. It renders large vaults with a Web Worker based force simulation, lets you adjust physics, flatten the layout into a spiral disc and switch between built in visual presets and color themes. Navigation includes fly to note, free flight, Wander, Connect two and focus mode with backlinks, tags and snippets. Markdown notes and Canvas boards appear in one graph. Folder filters, tag lenses, fuzzy search, keyboard shortcuts, mobile quality tiers and six language UI are built into the panel.

The Semantic Canvas plugin for Obsidian enhances the use of canvases by allowing users to visually edit file properties. It enables bulk property updates across multiple markdown files linked within a canvas, as well as the creation of semantic links between notes. The plugin provides intuitive tools for managing properties based on group membership and link relationships. Users can create knowledge graphs, perform mass edits, and even represent diagrams like Venn diagrams or Kanban boards. This plugin facilitates a more interactive and visual approach to working with notes and their properties, making it ideal for organizing complex information and improving note relationships.

The Canvas minimap plugin enhances the navigation experience within Obsidian's canvas feature by adding a minimap. This plugin allows users to get an overview of their canvas, making it easier to navigate through larger notes. The minimap can be enabled through the command palette or settings, and clicking on the minimap takes users directly to the corresponding section of the canvas. The behavior of the minimap can be customized to suit the user's preference, offering a more efficient way to manage complex canvas notes.

The Link Exploder plugin transforms Obsidian notes into interactive canvases by visualizing both incoming and outgoing links, as well as linked notes. This allows users to create a dynamic representation of their Map of Contents (MoC) or explore connections between topics in a more visual and engaging format. The plugin generates a canvas in the root directory based on the selected note and supports setting custom destinations for created canvases. It's ideal for visually mapping relationships between notes and serves as an interactive alternative to the local graph feature.

The Canvas Bases plugin turns a live Bases view into a spatial board where rows become draggable, resizable file cards with grouping, manual cards, assignment zones and relationship edges. Query logic stays in the `.base` file, while the plugin stores board layout, colours and other canvas specific state separately. It can create or update `.canvas` snapshots from the active Bases view, preserve unrelated manual canvas content, and carry card styling into generated nodes. The board also supports inline body editing, pinned notes, text cards, zoom controls and drag based link creation between cards. TaskNotes support is capability based, so task badges, menus and task relationships appear when available without making the main Bases and Canvas workflow depend on it.

The Augmented Canvas plugin enhances Obsidian's Canvas feature by integrating OpenAI's GPT-4 to provide AI-powered functionalities. Users can ask questions about specific notes or generate new questions based on a note's content. The plugin creates new notes with AI-generated responses or links, facilitating a dynamic conversation history between notes. Additional features include creating images, running system prompts across folders, generating flashcards for spaced repetition, and inserting relevant AI-generated questions into the canvas. The plugin offers robust customization options and integrates seamlessly with other Obsidian tools, boosting productivity and enhancing note exploration.

The Folder Canvas plugin brings a fresh way to visualize your Obsidian vault by generating Canvas views directly from a folder. This feature transforms selected folders into a structured, node-based layout, offering a quick overview of Markdown files within. Whether you prefer using the command palette, file menu, or a convenient sidebar ribbon button, the plugin provides multiple ways to create Canvas files seamlessly. It's particularly handy for managing notes at a glance, with settings that let you customize node arrangements, dimensions, and spacing. The "Watch Canvas folder" option ensures your Canvas remains updated as files are added or removed from the folder. While it focuses on first-level files, it avoids nested folder complexities, keeping the Canvas clean and focused. With flexible filename patterns and automatic opening upon creation, it's a great addition for those who want to enhance their note organization visually.

The Send to Canvas plugin streamlines how you move tasks, text blocks, or entire notes into Canvas files. It lets you send content in multiple formats - plain text, links, or embeds - while keeping your original formatting intact. You can customise open tasks by adding extra text and decide how block IDs are generated, choosing between date based or random formats. Timestamp features let you keep track of when links or embeds are created, with options to tweak the format as needed. Node sizing is flexible, so you can adjust how links and content appear visually on your Canvas. The plugin remembers your last-used Canvas file, shows a quick-access status indicator, and has smart defaults for working in large vaults.

The Tabula Rasa plugin turns sketches into first class vault files with a minimal drawing workspace that sits in the view header instead of adding a separate toolbar. It supports pressure tapered pen and brush strokes, a highlighter, object and pixel erasers, lasso selection with move, scale, rotate and flip actions, and a hold gesture that snaps rough lines, circles, rectangles and triangles into clean shapes. The canvas can be zoomed, panned, rotated, resized and fit to the drawing, with per sketch page colour and a theme aware default pen colour. Sketches autosave as compact `.sketch` files, reopen for further editing, render as live inline previews in notes and export to PNG or SVG only when you ask for an image.

The Canvas Presentation plugin allows users to create and display slide-like presentations directly within Obsidian's canvas. By marking cards as slides, users can organize them into a sequential order and easily navigate between slides using the 'Next Slide' and 'Previous Slide' commands. This plugin is useful for anyone who needs to present a series of notes or ideas in a structured, visual format. It streamlines the process of creating and displaying presentations without leaving the Obsidian environment, offering a simple and efficient way to turn notes into a presentation format.

The Canvas Format Brush plugin enhances the visual editing experience in Obsidian's Canvas view by allowing users to copy and apply formatting between canvas elements. Inspired by the format painter functionality in word processors, it lets you duplicate the size and color attributes of one card and apply them to others with ease. Users can selectively copy only size, only color, or both, depending on their needs. The plugin provides commands and context menu options for seamless interaction, and a status bar indicator shows when formatting is copied.

The Better Canvas Lock plugin allows you to lock the view of your Obsidian canvas, disabling features like zooming, selecting, dragging and dropping, and scrolling. This can be particularly useful when working on complex notes or presentations where unwanted interactions might disrupt your workflow. The plugin also includes a log feature for debugging purposes, although be warned that it may produce some redundant error messages in the console. Additionally, you can still enable limited interaction with canvas cards by focusing on them, which is helpful if you need to adjust the view of a specific card. Overall, Better Canvas Lock provides more control over your Obsidian experience and helps you stay focused on your work.

The Canvas Filter plugin enhances the functionality of Obsidian Canvas by enabling users to selectively display nodes based on criteria such as color, tags, or connections. This allows users to focus on specific elements within complex canvases by hiding unrelated nodes while maintaining their original positions. The plugin supports filtering by connections to and from selected nodes, providing a dynamic way to analyze relationships. It is particularly useful for organizing and decluttering large visual projects while retaining the overall structure.

The Circuit Sketcher plugin allows users to create and edit circuit diagrams directly within Obsidian. With a responsive canvas interface, it supports saving and loading designs, customizing circuit elements, and managing a reusable library of components. Users can easily connect nodes, add ports, and label elements for detailed circuit layouts.

The Search In Canvas plugin enables users to search for text within an Obsidian canvas, helping them locate specific information across various nodes and edges. It allows users to quickly search for text and highlights the results, making it easy to identify occurrences in complex visual structures. The plugin provides an intuitive interface, accessible through the `Ctrl + F` command or the search icon in the toolbar, offering a seamless experience for working with canvases in Obsidian.

The Canvas Daily Note plugin for Obsidian adds a convenient way to display your daily note directly on the canvas. This plugin automatically creates and updates a file node that always reflects the latest daily note whenever you open the canvas. Users can customize the appearance of the node and control when new daily notes are created through the settings. It simplifies navigating to your daily note on the canvas, but currently, it does not support connections to other nodes. Ideal for users looking for a quick way to access their daily notes in the canvas view.

The Canvas Conversation plugin enhances Obsidian Canvas by integrating ChatGPT, enabling users to initiate conversations directly within Canvas nodes. By right-clicking on a node and selecting the ChatGPT prompt, users can engage with AI to generate insights or content. This plugin requires configuring ChatGPT credentials for functionality and supports conversational workflows within the Canvas environment. It is particularly useful for brainstorming, generating ideas, or summarizing content within visual note structures.

The Discourse Graphs plugin turns research notes into structured discourse objects so questions, claims, evidence and sources can be created, linked and revisited as part of a larger argument. It lets you define custom node types, relation types and saved relations, then use those structures inside notes or on a dedicated canvas view for mapping connections. Text can be converted into nodes from a shortcut, context menu or command palette, while relations can be added from a sidebar panel or drawn directly between cards on a canvas. This makes it suited to academic workflows where people need clearer reasoning trails, reusable evidence chains and a more deliberate way to build knowledge over time.

The Canvas Picture in Picture plugin enhances Obsidian's Canvas feature by allowing users to float a selected canvas element above the rest of the content. This creates a picture-in-picture experience, enabling users to focus on a specific node while continuing to interact with other parts of the canvas. The floating element is resizable and positioned conveniently in the bottom left corner, making it an ideal tool for multitasking and improving workflow efficiency.

The Canvas Random Note plugin enhances the Obsidian canvas by allowing users to add random notes to their canvas view. It offers two main commands: 'Add notes' which pulls notes from the entire vault, and 'Add notes from search' which randomly selects notes from the current search results. Users can adjust settings such as the number of notes and their arrangement on the canvas. This plugin provides an efficient way to visually organize notes, but users should be cautious not to execute multiple commands in rapid succession to avoid data synchronization issues due to the lack of an official Canvas API in Obsidian.

The Timeline Canvas Creator plugin simplifies the process of building timeline-structured canvases by automating the placement of cards. Instead of manually arranging each element, you can generate a full timeline by specifying a start date, end date, and interval. This functionality is especially useful for visualising chronological data, planning projects, or outlining historical events without the repetitive task of positioning cards one by one. The plugin integrates directly with the canvas feature, enabling quick setup through a command palette action or the ribbon. It caters to users who need organised visual timelines for workflows, research, or storytelling.