Export

Exploration usually ends in something you take elsewhere: a draft, notes, a backup. So a canvas is never a dead end: download the whole thing as one file, or pull out single pieces (a reply, an image, a converted document) as you go.

Download a whole canvas

1. Right-click an empty spot on the canvas.
2. Hover Download Canvas.
3. Choose .md for Markdown or .json for JSON, then pick where to save it.

The file is named after the canvas.

Markdown

The Markdown file is for reading or pasting into a document or notes app. It contains:

• The canvas name as the top heading.
• One section per node, headed by the node's title, in roughly the order you added the nodes (not their position on the canvas).
• For each chat node, every message in the conversation under a user or assistant heading.

Only the text of chat messages is included. Tool calls, reasoning and images are left out, and other nodes (text notes, web pages, documents, images) appear as a title heading without their content. To take a note's text with you, copy it directly (see below).

Tip: Drop the .md file onto another canvas to bring those conversations in as a Document node, ready to connect as context.

JSON

The JSON file is a complete copy of the canvas as Slashspace saves it: every node with its full content, the connections between them, positions and sizes, and the canvas's settings. Use it as a backup or to process your canvas with your own scripts.

There's no way to import a JSON file back into Slashspace as a canvas. If you drop one onto a canvas, it's added as a Document node like any other text file.

Get individual pieces out

• A message: hover a message in a chat node and click the Copy icon. You get the message text with its Markdown formatting. Code blocks, tables and diagrams in a reply have their own copy and download buttons (tables as CSV or Markdown).
• Any text: select text in a node or in the side view and press ⌘C (Ctrl+C on Windows and Linux).
• An image: hover an Image node and click Reveal in Folder to show the image file in Finder (File Explorer on Windows).
• A document: once a Document node shows Ready, click .md (Open Markdown) or .pdf (Open PDF) to open the converted version in your browser. Reveal in Folder in the node's header shows the file on your computer. See Document node.

Every canvas is already a folder on your computer, so you can also back up or open its files directly. See Canvases and folders.