canvas

What is the Canvas?

The canvas is the infinite 2D workspace that forms the central interface of the floww desktop client. Every node, every workfloww, every stamp exists on the canvas. It is the single surface where all work happens — there are no hidden tabs, no background processes, no separate views. If it exists in your project, it is visible on the canvas.

The canvas supports panning (moving your view across the workspace) and zooming (adjusting your level of detail). You can zoom out to see the full shape of a project’s workflowws, or zoom in to focus on a single FlowwTerminal conversation.

Spatial Organization

Nodes are positioned freely on the canvas. Their spatial arrangement communicates structure — related nodes are grouped together, sequential steps flow left-to-right or top-to-bottom, alternative approaches branch visually. This spatial awareness is a core part of floww’s design philosophy: the shape of your work on the canvas reflects the shape of the work itself.

Stamps on the Canvas

When a stamp is created, it captures the canvas state at that moment — every node’s position, every connection, every conversation. Browsing historical stamps lets you see how the canvas evolved over time, providing a visual history of your project that goes beyond file diffs.

The Canvas as Workspace

The canvas is not a visualization of something that happens elsewhere. The canvas IS where work happens. Creating nodes, connecting them, executing Claude through FlowwTerminal, branching workflowws — all of these actions occur directly on the canvas. This is what makes floww a visual AI workspace rather than a traditional IDE with a visual overlay.