Version 1.3.7 Documentation

A fully customizable, elegantly animated backdrop. It responds to your node placements like the surface of a lake, utilizing advanced masking to make your nodes visually pop without sacrificing an ounce of performance. It takes the stiffness out of the workspace, making it feel alive. You can fully customize patterns, colors, and spacing to match your exact aesthetic.

Pure, physics-based navigation. When you pan across the screen and let go, the canvas carries your momentum naturally. It eliminates the jarring "dead stop" of the native workspace, making navigation feel incredibly frictionless.

The zoom mechanics have been completely rebuilt from the ground up. The zoom center is now perfectly anchored to your cursor with smooth, mathematical easing. It feels like you are seamlessly diving into your ideas rather than just clunkily scaling a webpage.

Grouped nodes automatically adopt a stunning, blurred glass effect. The color and blur dynamics adjust based on the nesting level, and the colors react beautifully to the movement of your mouse cursor, adding a deeply premium feel to your organization.

Switching between canvas tabs triggers a soft, beautiful viewport blur. It completely eliminates harsh visual cuts, keeping the experience incredibly easy on the eyes during long sessions.

Every single visual feature mentioned here includes 20 to 30 dedicated sub-settings. You have the total freedom to tweak the dynamics, colors, and physics exactly to your liking.

A beautiful bird’s-eye viewport of your entire workspace featuring its own customizable animated background. Click anywhere on it to teleport instantly and smoothly. You can even drop custom Pins onto the map for instant navigation to specific thought-clusters without any manual panning.

A dedicated 2D file explorer built directly into your toolbar. It maps out your current canvas and visually displays all other canvases linked to or embedded within it, keeping your entire vault interconnected.

Real-time, highly polished overlay elements that display your exact zoom level, your precise X/Y coordinates, and the exact dimensions of currently selected nodes.

Draw a jagged circle, a crooked triangle, or an awkward polygon. The moment you release your cursor, the engine instantly morphs it into a perfect geometric shape. It gracefully auto-closes unlinked ends, taking the friction out of quick sketching.

Features 4 distinct brush styles with a precise preview stroke that matches your actual output size. Apply beautiful effects like shadows, glows, and advanced blend modes, and pin your strokes directly to the canvas or the viewport.

Manage your colors in the dedicated Palette Library panel. Create custom brush presets and fill your shapes with solid colors, soft blurs, or diverse pattern fills.

Bring your sketches to life. Apply 2D and 3D animation presets to your strokes, or record your own custom stroke movements and let them run on a continuous loop.

Advanced Lasso multi-select tools give you precise Z-index rearrangement for overlapping strokes.

Export your selections as PNG, JPG, or SVG in multiple sizes and backgrounds. For the power users, you can even export flat 2D strokes as fully rotatable 3D .glb files.

Export the entire drawing layer as proprietary Crystal JSON (retaining all your advanced effects), standard tldraw, or Obsidian tldraw. You can seamlessly import existing whiteboards straight into your workflow.

We bypassed Obsidian's rigid single-center-point limitation. You can now add multiple distinct connection edges to any single side of a node, allowing for incredibly complex, organic mapping.

If you drag a connected node across the canvas, the connection intelligently detaches and re-attaches to the most logical side. No more ugly, overlapping lines—just clean, readable thought paths.

Fully customize the shape, labels, animations, and color of your connections. Flip directions instantly, and navigate the canvas effortlessly just by following the connection paths.

Dynamic border-radius adjustments based on high-end UI rules. When nodes are nested inside other nodes or groups, their corner roundness automatically scales to look mathematically perfect and visually pleasing.

Break the grid. Free-rotate any text, image, or media node in 2D space to build the exact visual hierarchy you want.

Sort assets by Date, Name, Size, Dimensions, or use advanced color algorithms to sort by Hue or Brightness Usage. Easily toggle between Grid and List views.

Hover your mouse over a video thumbnail in the grid to instantly scrub through the timeline. Hover over a 3D asset thumbnail to rotate the model in 3D space directly from the menu. It is incredibly fast and satisfying to use.

A built-in deduplication engine that keeps your vault pristine. It scans your canvas attachments, highlights duplicates, and allows you to manage them via a dedicated Trash area to permanently clean up unused clutter.

Multi-select items from the gallery and drag them directly onto the canvas into perfectly pre-programmed geometric grid layouts.

Select any arrangement of nodes, groups, and media, and save the entire cluster as a perfectly reusable template.

Pre-program a sequence of templates for rapid deployment. Stamp Template 1, click again to stamp Template 2, then Template 3—allowing you to lay out complex frameworks in seconds.

Pre-select your UI colors for groups before you even place them. Paste templates individually or deploy them in massive, structured grid stamps to build out your workspace instantly.

A bespoke, beautifully integrated media player for audio and video files. Features live audio visualizers, loop, shuffle, and auto-start controls right on the canvas.

Capture a screenshot directly from a playing video node. The screenshot drops onto the canvas tagged with an exact timestamp. Clicking that screenshot later will automatically snap the source video right back to that exact frame.

An advanced markdown and text-card rendering engine operating under the hood to ensure your text scales, displays, and reads flawlessly at any zoom level.

Cut out multiple distinct objects from a single reference image instantly. Each extracted cutout is placed as a separate node on the canvas while retaining a dynamic, non-destructive link to the original source image, letting you manage your source material with ease.

Perform clean extractions using standard Rectangle or Oval region crop tools, or create custom complex shapes using the freeform Polygonal lasso crop tool.

Leverage the Magnetic Lasso tool to automatically snap selection boundaries to high-contrast edges as you trace. Use the Smart Wand selection tool to isolate contiguous color regions with customizable tolerance levels.

Powered by a specialized, local computer vision model, Smart Object Selection detects and extracts complex objects (like people, objects, or organic shapes) with sub-pixel edge precision. Cut out intricate silhouettes in one click without leaving your canvas.

Eliminates the friction of exporting assets to Photoshop or external crop tools. Draw, crop, refine, and compose your visual references directly inside the Obsidian Canvas viewport.

Bypasses static toolbar layouts by spawning a circular menu directly under your mouse cursor, preserving workspace real estate and reducing mouse travel time.

Designed for both power users and casual browsing. Perform a rapid flick gesture to execute commands instantly, or click once to pin the menu in place for deeper configuration.

Organize more than 8 actions into concentric, nested rings. Sub-menus open smoothly with fluid easing, keeping your workspace neat and highly functional.

Stunning, CSS-driven haptic animations. Features soft entrance pops, depth blurs, dynamic color shifts (HSL transition states), and customizable border outlines for clean aesthetics.

Exit instantly by pressing Esc, tapping Q, or clicking any blank canvas area. Fully synchronized with your existing toolbar registry for seamless interaction parity.