Canvas is where Eden becomes powerful. It's a visual workspace where you connect your content to AI and work the way your brain actually thinks.

Create a Canvas

1. Navigate to the folder you want

2. Click the + button in the top left

3. Select Canvas

4. Name it something descriptive (e.g., "Q4 Video Project" or "Research Notes")

5. Click Create

You'll see optional templates to choose from, or you can start from a blank slate.

Add Your First Item

Use the toolbar to add items to the canvas:

1. Find a video, PDF, note, or link in your sidebar

2. Click and drag it onto the canvas

3. Drop it anywhere

The item appears as a card on your canvas. You can drag it around to position it wherever you want.

Add an AI Chat

Now let's add AI:

1. Navigate to the bottom menu bar

2. Select the Chat icon

3. An AI chat node appears on your canvas

Or use the toolbar at the bottom of the canvas to add an AI chat.

Connect Item to AI

This is the magic moment. Connect your content to the AI chat:

1. Look for the small dot on the edge of your item (the connection point)

2. Click and drag from that dot

3. Drop onto a connection point on the AI chat node

A line connects them. Now the AI has full context from that item — the transcript, the content, everything.

Quick shortcut: Drag from an item's connection dot to an empty space on the canvas — it automatically creates a connected AI chat.

Ask Your First Question

Click on the AI chat and try asking something about your connected content:

• "Summarize the main points"

• "What are the key takeaways?"

• "When do they talk about [specific topic]?"

• "List all the action items mentioned"

The AI already knows everything in your connected content. No copy-pasting needed.

Try This 5-Minute Exercise

Step 1: Create a new canvas called "Test Canvas"

Step 2: Paste a YouTube video or add a PDF you uploaded earlier onto the canvas

Step 3: Add an AI chat to the canvas

Step 4: Connect the item to the AI chat (drag from the dot)

Step 5: Ask: "What are the 3 most important points in this content?"

Step 6: Add a Note to the canvas and write down what you learned

You just completed your first canvas workflow.

What You Can Do Next

Connect multiple items

Drag several videos, PDFs, or links onto your canvas and connect them all to the same AI chat. Ask questions that span all your sources:

• "Compare the perspectives in these two videos"

• "What do all of these sources agree on?"

Be mindful of context limits on specific models. If these videos are large, consider using a model like Gemini 3 Pro, it has a much larger context window than Claude or ChatGPT models.

Add more AI chats

Create multiple AI chats for different purposes:

• One for summarizing

• One for brainstorming

• One for drafting content

Chain AI chats together

Connect the output of one AI chat to another. Build multi-step workflows where each chat builds on the previous one.

Write alongside your research

Add Notes to your canvas and draft content while your sources and AI are right there.

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Common Questions

Do I need to connect items for AI to see them?

Yes. The AI only has context from items that are connected to it with a line.

Can I connect one item to multiple AI chats?

Yes. An item can be connected to as many AI chats as you want.

Can I disconnect items?

Yes. Click on the connection line and delete it, or hit the backspace key.

How many items can I connect to one AI chat?

As many as you need. More context means more requests per message, but there's no hard limit.