Hi everyone, I've been thinking of something lately : Wouldn't it be neat to have canvas/whiteboards in Joplin, in a similar fashion to those of Obsidian/Logseq ? See Obsidian canvas and Logseq whiteboards . They would be : A third type of entity, on the same level as notes and todos and with t…

I also recently tried LogSeq and there were many things I really liked. Most of that is also achievable with Joplin with some additional work. However, the canvas is definitely something I'm missing in Joplin. I love taking notes by hand and I wish I could directly write into Joplin and use that to …

It's a good idea. I like canvas!

Canvas for Joplin 3.0? :smiley:

Leaving a reply to show my support for this idea! Would love to have this implemented.

Could this be achieved by storing the canvas as some kind of file attachment in a note (along the lines of how we store .pdf file or .jpg files in notes), with an extension that could recognize such notes/attachments and allow manipulating them? Perhaps by using a special tag to find/enable such no…

When browsing the Anytype forum, i stumbled upon this post which I found quite interesting and which I have copied (and slightly modified) below: Obsidian had recently released their canvasing functionality as an Open Source file format (.canvas ) that can be adopted by anyone. It would be really …

I wonder if that file format could work with the existing Plugin: js-draw integration at all.

I just found this library. May be it could be built with this tool. [image] tldraw A free and instant collaborative whiteboarding tool.

@muzak thank you for mentioning this plugin! I've made it working with couple of adjustments mentioned in latest post of its topic .

[Proposition] Canvas for Joplin?

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muzak 25 January 2025 16:31 13

If tldraw integration would suffice, there's already a plugin for the similar but open-source Excalidraw: Plugin: support Excalidraw in joplin

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[Proposition] Canvas for Joplin?

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