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CardNote

cycsdcycsd12k downloads

Quickly extract your thoughts in the Canvas and Excalidraw.

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⚡ Extract your thoughts more quickly

This tool help you create a new note and insert its link into the canvas. Let you quickly build visualized notes on Obsidian Canvas and the obsidian-excalidraw-plugin by "Drag and Drop".

Features

  • By creating a new note, referencing blocks, or cutting, quickly extract the blocks you want, and draw links on the canvas.

  • Dragging the first line drags the entire block.

    Support foldable blocks, markdown syntax,

    e.g. heading, paragraph, bullet list ...

  • Automatically open the file in a split view when you click the node on the canvas.

Commands

  • Enable/Disable Auto Link: toggle auto create link feature.
  • Arrow to * : When auto link is enable, select which arrow style to use for the link.
  • Set Default Label: Set the label for link created automatically.
  • Show/Hide Drag Symbol: Show or hide the drag symbol.
  • Create New File in Default/Source/Canvas Folder: Choose which folder you want to save the extracted content.
  • Enable/Disable Auto Preview: When enabled, clicking a node on the canvas automatically opens the file in a split view.

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Example

Obsidian Canvas

ExampleCanvas

Excalidraw

ExampleExcalidraw

Extract selections

ExampleSelection

Extract foldable range

ExampleFoldable

Cards View

Crads View

Alternative

Drag-and-Drop

You could replace drag-and-drop feature by steps below

  1. Right-click to open the tools menu in the editor
  2. Use Obsidian Note Composer to extract your thoughts into a new note
  3. In Obsidian Canvas or obsidian-excalidraw-plugin, Right-click to open the tools menu.
  4. Insert markdown file to canvas.
  5. You can replace Right-click by setting Note Composer hotkey, and replace steps 3 ~ 4 by dragging link in editor.

Cards View

obsidian-cards-view-plugin: display a beautiful masonry layout for your notes.

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Extract selections or foldable blocks into new notes and insert linked cards onto Obsidian Canvas or Excalidraw with drag-and-drop for fast visual note building. Open linked files automatically in a split view and set automatic link labels and arrow styles for clear, navigable maps.
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Details
Current version
1.7.0
Last updated
3 months ago
Created
2 years ago
Updates
19 releases
Downloads
12k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.5.11+
License
MIT
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Author
cycsdcycsd
github.com/cycsd
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  4. CardNote

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