Read a canvas as a list

Switch from spatial layout to an ordered view when you need to scan card text, links, checklists, drawings, or palettes.

Follow the steps

Open a canvas and choose List view in the canvas header.
Scan the non-frame cards in their ordered content representation. Image and file/link cards keep an image or Open source action when their URL is available.
Use Edit on a card to select it and return to its card details when the canvas is editable.
Choose Canvas view to return to spatial arrangement.

List view is a reading path over the same board content. It does not reproduce the board's spatial positions or connector geometry.
Frame nodes are structural groups and are omitted from the list entries; their cards remain in Canvas view.
Checklist items can be checked from the list when the current role can edit the board.
Quote attribution, reading status and HEX values remain available in List view. Copy actions work in read-only views; editing and reading-status changes require edit access.

If a card is missing, check whether it is a frame or whether the board loaded an older saved revision.
If edit controls are unavailable, the board may be read-only through a public link or your shared role may be viewer.
If an external source does not open, the card may not contain a safe URL. Return to Card details and inspect the source field.