What Obs Canvas provides is a whiteboard where you can add notes, embed anything, create new notes, and export of the result.
Six example categories of using Canvas in Obsidian.
- Dashboard
- Create flow charts
- Mindmaps
- Mapping out ideas as Graph View replacement
- Writing, structure an article ([[Ik noem mijn MOCs Olifantenpaadjes 20210313094501]])
- Brainstorming (also a Graph View replacement)
I have used [[Tinderbox]] as canvas / outliner (as it allows view-switch between them) for dashboards mostly, as well as for braindumping and then mapping it for ideas and patterns.
Canvas w Excalibur may help escape the linearity of a note writing window (atomic notes are fine as linear texts)