Canvas
An infinite 2D board where sketches, shapes, and live Blocks from your workspace sit side by side.
Starter documentation. Features and account details may differ from this deployment.
A canvas is Mosaic's whiteboard Block: an infinite 2D plane for mind-mapping, technical diagrams, project planning, or just grouping files visually. Unlike a standalone whiteboard tool, you can place live @mentions of anything in your workspace (tasks, docs, emails, channels, calls) directly on the board, so a diagram can point at the real work it describes.
What you can put on a canvas
- Blocks from your workspace: @mention any doc, task, email, channel, call, or chat. Mentions render as live pills that carry current metadata, like a task's status and priority.
- Shapes and text: rectangles, ellipses, and styled text, with configurable fill, stroke, corner radius, and opacity.
- Connectors: straight, curved, or stepped lines between objects, with arrowheads and other end styles on either end.
- Freehand drawing: sketch with the pencil tool.
- Images: paste, drag in, or pick from your files.
Working on the board
The toolbar along the bottom switches what you add: Select, Hand, Rectangle, Ellipse, Arrow, Pencil, Eraser, and Text. Hand pans the board. Attach places an image, or a live reference to a Block in your workspace.
Click an object to select it, or drag across the board to select several. The inspector aligns a selection left, center, right, top, middle, or bottom. Right-click the selection and choose Group to move those objects together, or Ungroup to separate them. Arrange sets what sits in front: Bring to front or Send to back. Drag an object to move it. Right-click to Copy, Cut, Paste, or Delete.
Sharing
When you copy a link to a canvas, your current pan and zoom position is preserved, so the link opens framed on the part of the board you were looking at. You can also download a canvas as a file, and @mention canvases anywhere else in Mosaic.