[New Plugin] Canvas Node Linker
I frequently use and create large Canvas maps in Obsidian, and I realized there wasn’t a built-in option or even a plugin I could find, to quickly copy the link from a specific Canvas node.
You can manually create a wikilink for a node, but it’s a bit tedious when you do it often, so I ended up making a simple solution for myself.
After using it for a while, I thought it could be useful as a public plugin too, since other people working heavily with Canvas probably ran into the same limitation as well (surprised this isn’t included in Obsidian by default).
The plugin lets you quickly copy direct wikilinks to Canvas nodes, and I also added a few optional features:
- Automatically rename the generated wikilink using the first heading found in the target text or use a specific heading configurable in the settings (enabled by default but can be disabled)
- Optional notifications when links are copied (mostly added for debugging/testing)
Initially, support for Canvas Group IDs wasn’t even planned it happened almost accidentally because of how the implementation worked. I refined it a bit and added support for groups too. Although for group-only linking there’s already another plugin available.
The code hasn’t received the manual review from the Obsidian staff yet, but the plugin is already available in the Community Plugins section or in my repository.