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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Link Nodes in Canvas plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who rely heavily on visual organization. With this plugin, you can effortlessly create connections between nodes in your canvas by simply selecting the nodes and using a custom command. This feature allows you to quickly establish relationships between ideas, concepts, or tasks, making it easier to navigate complex networks of information. Additionally, you can also link text or file nodes directly to other nodes, creating a seamless flow of knowledge. With Link Nodes in Canvas, you'll be able to create a more intuitive and visually appealing representation of your thoughts, making it simpler to explore and build upon your ideas.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Advanced Сanvas Filter plugin lets you zero in on selected nodes within an Obsidian Canvas by focusing on specific tags. It’s particularly useful when you have a large, visually dense board and want to highlight only the parts that matter at any given moment. By narrowing down the displayed nodes, you can more easily trace thematic connections or gather relevant details without losing yourself in the clutter of unrelated information. Whether you’re mapping out complex ideas or simply organizing projects, this targeted visibility helps streamline your creative or analytical processes. By swiftly filtering out what isn’t needed, you can direct your attention to the essential elements of your canvas and keep your workspace more manageable.

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 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 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 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 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 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.