Canvas

Canvas is Feldar’s visual planning board for characters, locations, story elements, and plot notes. The controls below describe Canvas in a desktop browser.

Why use Canvas

Saved Canvas cards can be used as project context during generation and while working with Chat. Keep the cards focused on details that should influence the writing.

Card types

Canvas supports six card types:

• Character for people in the story
• Location for places and settings
• Note for history, rules, cultures, and other background
• Plot for events, turns, and story beats
• Item for important objects
• Faction for groups and organizations

The illustrated card tray provides all six actions. Hover an action to see its label.

Create and edit cards

1. Open Canvas from your project.
2. Add a card from the illustrated tray.
3. Enter a title and notes on the card.
4. Select a card to open its action rail.

Use More actions → Duplicate card to copy a card, or More actions → Delete to remove it.

Select and arrange cards

• Click a card to select it.
• Drag an empty area to draw a selection box.
• Hold Shift while clicking to add or remove cards from the selection.
• Drag a card or a multi-card selection to reposition it.
• Press Delete or Backspace to remove the selected cards when you are not editing a card’s text.

Canvas supports undo and redo for supported board actions.

Navigate the board

• Hold Space and drag, or use the middle mouse button, to pan.
• Use the zoom controls, or hold Cmd on macOS / Ctrl on Windows while scrolling or pinching, to zoom.
• Select Reset view to fit the cards into the visible board.
• Use Show canvas controls to open the gesture guide when you need a reminder.

Connect cards

1. Select a card and choose Connect from its action rail.
2. Search for and select the card you want to connect to.
3. Choose Related to, Part of, Causes, or Opposes.
4. Select Connect to save the relationship.

Lines show the saved connections. Select a connected card to reveal its relationship labels. For multiple selected cards, Connect as related or Connect as sequence links them in selection order.

Develop ideas from cards

Select a card and choose Develop to deepen details, add pressure, or check continuity against the rest of the board. Branch creates a related character, location, item, faction, plot beat, or supporting note.

With several cards selected, Develop offers Synthesize, Find contradictions, and Summarize set. These requests can create or update cards directly. Review the generated result on the board after it finishes.

Tip

Write notes the way you would brief a collaborator. Be specific about what matters to the story: character motivations, location atmosphere, and world rules that constrain the plot.

Use Canvas with Chat

The Canvas composer uses your selected cards as context. Ask a question for an answer, or request a card change to create or update material on the board. Custom instruction in a card’s Develop menu opens the composer for a more specific request.

In ordinary project Chat, review card proposals before accepting them. See Chat for that workflow.