How to add Links into Canvas

This article will teach you how to copy paste website URLs into Canvas, helping you collect your favorite products from just about anywhere and be able to reference helpful hyperlinks.

When you paste a URL into Canvas, it will automatically transform into a product with a visually pleasing card and be saved automatically into My Catalog. This workflow allows you to easily add and organize different types of content from across the web as products directly inside your Canvas, keeping your collections all in one place.

With this web clipper, you can paste and place links wherever you want in your Canvas and save them as products with ease.

Try it out! Here’s a three-step guide on how to paste a link into Canvas.

How to paste a link into your Canvas:

1. Copy the URL from your web-browser.

2. Open the Canvas that you want to paste it into.

3. Click CRTL + V in Canvas directly where you want to paste your link.

4. The link will appear in a card view with an image, title, and hyperlink back to the original source.

5. Check the My Catalog icon in the bottom right corner to see your new product automatically saved.

Pasting links into Canvas, creating products automatically

Depending on the source of the link, different types of data will appear in the card once pasted into Canvas. Not all links from the web bring in images.

Functionality of a link in Canvas

1. Pasted links that bring in an image with the card view will automatically become products and saved to My Catalog for Pro and Studio users.

Example of a pasted URL automatically becoming a saved product in My Catalog

1. For pasted links that do not bring in images to Canvas, you can still instantly create a product with the Save as Product icon. Here's how:

   1. Simply, select the card and click the Save as Product icon.

   2. The Product side panel will pop up on the right-side of your screen where you can check all of the data it saved from its source and easily add more data manually.

   3. Read How to create custom products in your mood board to learn all about this functionality.

Save as Product icon in pasted URL

Product Side Panel to add and check data

1. You also have the ability to turn the card view into plain text if needed.

   1. Simply, select the card and click the Display URL as Text icon.

2. Reference the original link of the card by clicking on the Hyperlink icon in the bottom left corner of the card. It will take you to the exact website URL you copied into your Canvas.

Hyperlink icon | Display Text icon

Auto-Enrich your Product Data

When adding in your products via URL copy paste to your Canvas, CanoaAI will automatically give them a subcategory and a color tag in addition to adding the product to your My Catalog. To check this, right-click and View Product Details. Scroll down to the data fields: Category and Tags.

Collect links from all over the Internet

This feature allows you to hyperlink almost anything in your Canvas and turn them into products. Not only can you paste URLs of your favorite furniture pieces from your favorite brands' websites, you can also paste links from e-commerce sites, news media and magazine outlets, bookmarking apps, and even that cooking recipe you've been inspired by lately. Happy collecting!

Example of URL to paste into Canavs

Examples of URLs pasted in Canvas from various sources

Generous Guru

Check out this public Canvas created by our Founder, Federico Negro, to view his collection of links.