Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas launched on December 20, 2022 with 1,380 votes, #2 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Obsidian Canvas is a visual workspace for organizing and connecting ideas. It allows users to create infinite digital spaces where they can arrange notes, images, and other content freely, then link them together to show relationships. The tool is designed for anyone who wants to map out complex information visually, from students organizing research to professionals planning projects. It integrates with Obsidian's existing note-taking system.
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From the sources
Obsidian Bases let you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. You can filter your notes by properties and create dynamic formulas.
Infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas. Canvas comes free with Obsidian. Canvas allows you to organize notes visually — an infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram and lay out your ideas. Embed your notes alongside images, PDFs, videos, audio, and even fully interactive web pages. Effortlessly add existing notes and media from your vault, and edit them within a Canvas view. Canvas views can be embedded in notes, and even nested within another Canvas. Like everything else in Obsidian, Canvas is extensible and designed to be durable. Our API makes it easy to create plugins that add new capabilities to Canvas. Your Canvas files are stored locally using…from obsidian.md
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