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Capture: Canvas Capture

Canvas capture lets a Capture choice write into a selected Canvas card or into a specific card in a specific .canvas file.

When to use this​

Use Canvas capture when your workflow starts in a visual board, but you still want QuickAdd's capture formats, variables, and hotkeys.

Good fits:

  • Add a timestamped note to a selected brainstorming card.
  • Append a task to a project card.
  • Send repeated updates to one known Canvas card.

Capture to the selected card​

  1. Create a Capture choice.
  2. Enable Capture to active file.
  3. Open a Canvas file.
  4. Select exactly one supported card.
  5. Set Write position to Top of file, Bottom of file, or After line....
  6. Run the Capture choice.

Supported selected-card targets:

  • Text cards
  • File cards that point to Markdown files

QuickAdd aborts with a notice if no card is selected, multiple cards are selected, or the selected card is unsupported.

Capture to a specific card​

  1. Create a Capture choice.
  2. Turn off Capture to active file.
  3. Set Capture To to a .canvas file.
  4. Choose Target canvas node.
  5. Pick the card you want QuickAdd to write to.
  6. Set a supported write position.

This is the best option for repeatable workflows where every capture should go to the same Canvas card.

Write position support​

Canvas capture supports these write positions:

  • Top of file
  • Bottom of file
  • After line...

Canvas capture does not support cursor-based write positions:

  • At cursor
  • New line above cursor
  • New line below cursor

If Capture to active file is enabled and the write position is still At cursor, QuickAdd aborts instead of writing to the wrong place.

When append-link is set to Enabled (requires active file) and capture runs from a Canvas card without a focused Markdown editor, the capture still writes. QuickAdd skips link insertion because there is no active Markdown file to link from.

Troubleshooting​

SymptomLikely causeFix
Capture aborts before writingNo card or multiple cards are selectedSelect exactly one supported card
Capture aborts with cursor-position wordingThe write mode is cursor-basedUse top, bottom, or after-line placement
Nothing is written to a file cardThe file card points to a non-Markdown fileUse a Markdown file card or a text card
The target picker is not shownCapture target is not a .canvas fileSet Capture To to the Canvas file path