An infinite canvas AI for work too big for a chat scroll.

What is an infinite canvas AI?

An infinite canvas AI is a workspace where your AI chats sit on an open surface you pan and zoom, next to the notes and sources they use, instead of in one scrolling thread. In Slashspace, every chat, note, PDF, video and web page is a node on the canvas, the lines between nodes decide what each chat reads, and any answer can branch into a new chat beside it.

Start in four steps

1. Open a canvas. Click New Space in the sidebar. Give each project or question its own canvas.
2. Drop in your sources. Paste a link to get a Web node, or a Post node for a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X or LinkedIn video. Drop a PDF or Office file to get a Document node. Press T for a note.
3. Ask right where the question comes up. ⌘-click any empty spot (Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) for a new chat, or drag from a source's right handle to get a chat already connected to it.
4. Zoom out to see the whole thing. Press 0 for Tidy Up, open the mini map, and click any title to fly back in.

See your whole problem at once

A chat scroll keeps only the last few messages in view. Everything else, the side question from an hour ago, the PDF you keep checking, the answer from a second model, is further up the page or in another tab, and you hold the picture in your head.

On an infinite canvas, it all stays where you put it. A glance takes in what a long scroll hides, so you can keep many lines of thinking in mind at once, see how they connect and take on bigger, messier work without losing your place.

• See more at once. Chats, notes and sources sit side by side instead of stacked in one thread.
• Keep your place. Every idea stays next to where it started.
• Come back to a map, not a transcript. Weeks later, the shape of the work is still there.

• Why a canvas

Everything is a node

Each thing you work with gets its own node on the canvas. Pick one from the toolbar at the bottom, or press its key and click where it should go.

Pasting works too: a video link becomes a Post node, any other link a Web node, and plain text a Text node.

Lines decide what the AI reads

Where a node sits is for you. What a chat reads is set by its connections.

• Connect a source, and the chat reads it in full with every message. Nothing is summarized or trimmed.
• Chains carry through. A chat reads everything connected upstream of it, and nothing else.
• Type @ in a chat to mention a node and connect it in one step.
• Connect a group to hand a chat a whole cluster of sources at once.
• Pick a context mode. A chat with no connections gets a short summary of the whole canvas by default, or nothing at all when you switch it to Isolated context.
• See the wiring. Click a chat and every connection feeding it lights up in orange, all the way up the chain.

• Connections and context

Move around a big canvas

A big canvas only works if moving around it costs you nothing.

• Pan and zoom. On a trackpad, two-finger scroll pans and pinch zooms. Switch Movement to Mouse and the wheel zooms instead. Zoom runs from 1% to 200%. Hold Space and drag to pan from anywhere.
• Fit View frames every node on screen in one click.
• Mini map. Open an overview of the whole canvas and drag inside it to move your view.
• Title pills. Below 30% zoom, every node shows its title in a pill that stays readable. Click one to fly to that node.
• Node navigator. The short lines on the left edge stand for every node. Click one to jump there, or drag it right to add that node as context for the chat you're in.
• Search. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) to find a node by what it says. Local Search runs on your computer; AI Search finds ideas by meaning once you opt in to cloud indexing.
• Side view. Open any node at full height beside the canvas to read a long answer or page through a PDF.

• Navigating the canvas

Keep the map readable

Exploration gets messy by design. These turn the sprawl into a map you can come back to.

• Tidy Up. Press 0 and the canvas lays itself out in left-to-right columns that follow your connections: sources on the left, the chats that use them to the right, branches fanning out. One undo puts your old layout back.
• Groups. Select nodes, click Group selection and name the box. Drag it and everything inside moves along.
• Align and distribute. Select a few nodes and line them up from the toolbar above them.
• Minimize all. Collapse every chat to its last question and answer to see the shape of the canvas instead of walls of text.
• Colors. Tint chats and notes, for example green for conclusions and orange for open questions.

Layout never changes what a chat sees, so tidy as much as you like.

• Organizing the canvas

Branch any answer, in view

When a side question comes up, branch. Submit in new branch (⌘⇧Enter, or Ctrl+Shift+Enter on Windows and Linux) opens the question in a new chat beside the original, with the conversation so far. Or select one sentence in an answer and ask about just that line. Every branch stays on the canvas next to where it started, so the tangent never buries the main thread.

• Branching AI chat

Any AI, side by side on one canvas

Each chat node has its own model, so one canvas can put the same question to several models and show the answers next to each other.

• Your Claude or ChatGPT plan. Slashspace drives the official Claude Code and Codex CLIs on your computer, signed in with your own account. Usage counts against your plan.
• Your keys. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, xAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Groq and more.
• Local models. Ollama runs models on your machine.
• Optional built-in AI. Hosted models, with Auto picking one for you.

• Compare AI models side by side
• Every way to run AI in Slashspace

Let the AI build on the canvas

• Orchestrator. Describe a goal and Orchestrator plans the work, creates and connects nodes, hands pieces to sub-agents and brings the results back. It runs in Slashspace's cloud.
• Agent mode. A chat can use your connectors, such as Gmail, Notion and GitHub, and split a job across sub-agents, each in its own chat node on the canvas.

• Orchestrator mode

Your canvas is a folder you own

Every canvas is a plain folder on your computer: ordinary files you can back up. Export any canvas as Markdown or JSON whenever you like. Documents, web pages and videos you add are uploaded to Slashspace's servers so the AI can read them.

• Privacy and your data

When Slashspace isn't the right fit

An infinite canvas isn't the best tool for everything. You may be better off elsewhere if you:

• Ask quick one-off questions. A regular chat app is faster when there's nothing to keep.
• Need a live whiteboard with your team today. Shared canvases are coming soon. For real-time diagramming with others now, a collaborative whiteboard fits better.
• Work in a browser or on your phone. Slashspace is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux. Web and mobile apps are coming soon.
• Want a free plan. Slashspace is $89/year, starting with a 3-day trial (card required), or $249 one-time lifetime.