Navigating the canvas

A big exploratory canvas only works if moving around it costs you nothing. Zoom out to see the shape of your thinking, jump to the node you need, then zoom back in to read and write.

When you open a canvas, the view frames all of its nodes.

Moving around

What scrolling does depends on the Movement setting in Canvas settings. Touchpad is the default.

Action	Touchpad	Mouse
Scroll (two fingers or the wheel)	Pans	Zooms
Pinch on a trackpad	Zooms	Zooms
⌘ + scroll (Ctrl + scroll on Windows and Linux)	Zooms	Zooms
Hold Space and drag	Pans	Pans
Middle-click and drag	Pans	Pans
Click and drag on empty canvas	Draws a selection box	Draws a selection box

Zoom runs from 1% up to 200%. Double-clicking the canvas never zooms, so a stray click won't move your view. Selection is covered in Organizing the canvas.

Scrolling over a chat you've clicked scrolls its conversation, not the canvas. A badge by the cursor shows which will happen: four arrows mean the canvas pans (Touchpad mode only), up and down arrows mean the chat scrolls.

Viewport controls and mini map

The controls in the bottom-right corner:

• Fit View zooms and pans so every node fits on screen. It's also in the right-click menu under View.
• Zoom In and Zoom Out step the zoom. The current zoom level sits between them.
• Show Mini Map (the map icon) opens an overview of the whole canvas. Drag inside it to move your view, or scroll over it to zoom. Click the same button, now an X, to close it.

Title pills when zoomed out

Below 30% zoom, node titles are too small to read, so each node shows its title in a pill that stays the same size at any zoom. Groups keep their own labels.

• Click the title to fly to that node. A node too tall for one screen lines up with the top of the screen, so you start at its beginning.
• Drag the grip on the left of the pill to move the node from far out. It behaves like dragging the node itself, so the rest of your selection moves with it.

The node navigator

The column of short lines on the left edge of the canvas is the node navigator, one line per node. The active node's line is longer and orange, and nodes that feed context into it are orange too.

• Hover a line to see the node's name, type and connection counts, such as "2 in" and "1 out".
• Click a line to make that node active and fly the canvas to it.
• Drag a line to the right to add that node as context for the active node, or to remove it if it's already connected. See Connections and context.

When the active node can take context, your groups are listed at the bottom. Clicking or dragging a group's line adds or removes the whole group as context instead of flying to it.

To find a node by its content, use Search (⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux).

Canvas header

The bar across the top of the canvas, from left to right:

• Sidebar button (Hide Sidebar / Show Sidebar): shows or hides your canvases and folders (Canvases and folders). A dot on it means an app update is available.
• Breadcrumb: the folder path and canvas name, such as "Research / Sleep science". An unnamed canvas shows "Untitled".
• Canvas settings (gear icon): opens the settings below.
• Side view button (panel icon): opens a panel on the right showing the active node at full height. See Side view.

Canvas settings

Click the gear icon in the canvas header to open Canvas settings. Default model and Agent workspace belong to the canvas you're in. Everything else applies to every canvas.

Setting	What it does	Applies to
Movement	Touchpad (pan): two-finger scroll moves the canvas. Mouse (scroll wheel): the wheel zooms.	All canvases
Pinch zoom speed	Windows only. How fast pinch and Ctrl + scroll zoom, from 1 to 20 (default 8).	All canvases
Default model	The model this canvas's chats use unless you pick another in the chat. Global default shows while it follows your app-wide default. See Choosing a model.	This canvas
Agent workspace	The folder Claude Code, Codex and Cursor work in. Choose folder... sets it; the X clears it. A chat can also pick its own. See Subscription providers.	This canvas
Auto-switch into Orchestrator mode	Applies an agent's proposal to switch into Orchestrator mode without asking. Orchestrator mode sends canvas context to Slashspace's cloud. Always allow on a switch proposal turns this on. See Orchestrator mode.	All canvases
Edges	Line style for connections: Default, Straight, Step, Smooth step or Simple bezier. See Connections and context.	All canvases

Go to Settings at the bottom of the popover opens the app's full settings.

Next

• Adding nodes
• Organizing the canvas
• Keyboard shortcuts