Canvas notes use the Excalidraw library to allow handwritten notes with mouse, pen or touch on an infinite canvas. It also supports basic diagramming, text and graphics input.

Interaction

• The note can be togged read-only from the Note menu.

Embedding notes

Since v0.104.0, Canvas supports embedding notes in a similar fashion to the Include Note functionality for Text notes.

To embed a note:

• From the Note Tree, drag the item onto the canvas.
• Manually, by choosing More tools → Web Embed and pasting the link to the note (e.g. root/MujWAc9fQ1nj).

Embedding notes in the canvas follows the same rules as Include Note: some notes are rendered as images (e.g. Mind Map), whereas some render fully interactive such as Collections.

Linking to a note

1. From the Note Tree right click the note to be linked and selected Advanced → Copy note path to the clipboard.
2. In the canvas note, right click an element and select Add link (or press Ctrl+K). Paste the link and press Enter.
3. A  icon will appear at the top-right of the element which will navigate to the linked note when clicked.

Drawing in a text note

To draw inside a Text note instead of in a note of its own, insert a drawing canvas with Drawing canvas in the Insert menu. See Drawing canvases in Include Note.