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title: Canvas Infinite Whiteboard
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excerpt: Design visual maps, reference durable notes, and model complex systems on an infinite spatial canvas. Canvas metadata stores positions, links, groups, and scratch thoughts; it does not duplicate full note bodies.
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# Canvas Infinite Whiteboard

Design visual maps, reference durable notes, and model complex systems on an infinite spatial canvas. Canvas metadata stores positions, links, groups, and scratch thoughts; it does not duplicate full note bodies.

## Creating a Canvas

1. Go to the **Canvas** page from the side navigation.
2. Create a folder or canvas from the Canvas library.
3. Use the toolbar to add a scratch thought, a note reference, or a frame.
4. Pan, zoom, fit the view, resize nodes, select several items, and connect nodes with labeled edges. Undo/redo and autosave preserve the working layout through normal metadata sync.

## Live knowledge and recall

Typing a scratch thought starts a debounced, local, bounded related-knowledge pass. Suggestions show why they appeared and are never inserted automatically; choose **Add to canvas** to create a note-reference node.

Use **Ask selected** or **Ask whole canvas** to route a selection or the entire canvas through the shared Phasoric retrieval boundary. Results remain source-grounded and show their source paths.