u/ssumppg

I have this wacky idea to use Canvas as a kind-of visual-scripting tool. I'm a very visual person, so it's much easier for me to organize code logic if I can drag boxes around. I tested out my idea (see image below), and it turns out that Canvas is almost perfect for this. The only two features missing are card titles & card templates.

• Card Titles: little, editable titles above text cards, just like the ones for notes or groups
  • Work-around: put every card in its own group
• Card Templates: save a text card & its contents to be used as a template for new cards
  • Work-around: manually type the same code block syntax for every new card

Card titles would let you see at a glance what kind of information is in each card/block of code (as in the example below). Card templates would let you easily create new cards with code blocks built-in. Thus, you could create a kind of drag-and-drop visual scripting system for virtually any programming language, and customize it to suit your own preferences.

"Why not just use Excallidraw?" Because Excallidraw doesn't have fancy code-formatting in its text boxes.

"That sounds like a horrible way to write code." It probably is. This would act more as a mock-up/brainstorming and learning tool than a dedicated code editor. Plus, I'm sure there could be lots of other use-cases for functionality like this.

Back to the post title: Are there any community plugins that offer either of these features? Card templates in particular would be especially helpful. I did a quick search, but the only template options I could find were for card styles, not card contents.

Here's the little test canvas I did of the idea:

https://preview.redd.it/75sb8nbttz7h1.png?width=994&format=png&auto=webp&s=8858f3c08d0db7feaf28b2cc98c73cf7b4e2db74