Matthew Akamatsu's Comments
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Agreed! I end up using Roam's (improved) graph view in different cases than the canvas.
A couple of updates:
One killer app has been to take the results of a query and dump them into a canvas.
This lets us array e.g. a set of projects on the canvas and spatially categorize, etc.The canvas now includes "key figure" images which are pulled from the first image associated with the nodes. This has increased utility of the canvas by a lot!
I wrote up some examples for how we use the canvas on experiment.com if useful!
One key for making the Canvas useful a more algorithmic way is a "send to canvas" function from a query. We built this in our Roam query builder plugin:
It's very powerful because we query e.g. all the nodes that were made after a certain day, by an author, with type X (or relation Y to those nodes), and send them all to the canvas. The nodes and relations remain updated as you change them in the outliner, and you get the ability to sort, add, and include handwriting in a nonlinear way.
@David Oliver , if you have found other advantages of Scrintal, let me know and I'll see if we can include those features in our plugin prototype. We'd be interested in building something similar that works with Tana, if they meet us halfway with plugin type support :)