Canvas decks

Author cards on an Obsidian Canvas (.canvas) instead of a markdown file. Each canvas in the configured folder becomes one deck; each text node inside it is parsed for the same four card formats — header + paragraph, table, cloze, and image occlusion.

One text node can hold a whole table of cards, a single cloze sentence, or one header + paragraph. Mix them freely across the canvas.

Setting it up

Open Settings → Canvas decks:

• Canvas decks folder — every .canvas file inside this folder becomes a deck.
• Canvas deck tag — applied to all canvas decks for grouping in the Tags view and for profile mapping. Defaults to #decks/canvas (which uses the Default profile unless you map it elsewhere).

A Decks — Canvas getting started.canvas file is auto-created in a Canvas decks/ folder on first install (or first upgrade) to show the formats in action.

Spatial cards

Connect text nodes with edges, and each edge becomes a flashcard:

• the from-node is the question,
• the to-node is the answer,
• the edge label is an optional hint.

Chains (A → B → C), one-to-many, and many-to-one all work. Nodes that aren’t connected to anything still parse with the four standard formats.

Behaves like any other deck

Canvas decks show up in the deck list and the Tags view, can be included in custom decks by filter (e.g. deckTag = #decks/canvas), are editable from the flashcard manager, and “Go to source” from review opens the canvas and focuses the source text node.

Tip

For the full write-up, see docs/CANVAS_DECKS.md in the repository.