Feature Request: Corkboard Functionality in Canvas

[GarDrastic]

Describe the solution you'd like Obsidian's newer Canvas function can be used to replicate something a lot like Scrivener's corkboard feature. I'm envisioning an option in a draft's Scenes list to "generate corkboard" or similar; this would create a new canvas file, with cards either linking to or direct embedding of the individual notes arranged in that canvas. The user can then of course rearrange freely to get a visual overview of different ways to arrange and structure them.

Having that affect the ordering in the scenes list by that rearranging would be a nice extension of the functionality down the road, but I'm primarily picturing quickly generating the canvas itself from the existing scenes ordering.

Describe alternatives you've considered This can all be done manually already within a canvas by embedding or linking to each scene note, but is time-consuming with many scenes; automating it would be nice.

[GarDrastic]

Sometimes the best way to discover overlooked functionality is to speak up and today is one of those times! I just realized this morning dragging a folder into a canvas auto-populates the canvas with each note in that folder. So manually doing exactly what the feature request says is far easier than I thought initially.

[b-camphart]

Potentially a duplicate of #26

[kevboh]

Sure, at this point we'd likely use canvas over some other corkboard-like thing. I'll close 26 in favor of tracking here.

[b-camphart]

My thoughts on how this might work:

• add two new longform properties:
  • corkboardFile: string (the relative path to where this file should be generated. canvas extension optional. defaults to corkboard.canvas)
  • corkboardColumnCount: number (the number of columns to create before wrapping to a new row)
• scene files can have an optional synopsis property (maybe configurable in .index or global plugin settings?) which is then rendered in the created corkboard file.
• I'm not sure reordering scenes by moving the canvas blocks around is entirely possible. Canvas allows for very open-ended positioning, so reading the positions back out and relating that back to a linear order may not be possible. Especially considering the concept of nested scenes.
  • Maybe this could be done by using groups in canvas? A top-level group could be labeled "scenes" and any sub-groups are considered nested. Order would be determined by the y coordinate, then the x coordinate. Might be a little unwieldy and unintuitive for users, though.
• We might be able to generate new scenes through detection of new boxes.