When the canvas grows past one screenful, the Map in the bottom-left corner keeps the whole thing in view. It draws a zoomed-out wireframe of every shape and connector, with a coloured rectangle marking the part of the canvas you're currently looking at — so you always know where you are and what's off-screen.
Navigating with it
- Tap anywhere on the Map to re-centre the canvas on that spot.
- Drag across it to pan continuously — the view box follows your finger.
- Scroll on the Map to zoom the canvas in or out, centred where you scroll.
The view box updates live as you pan and zoom by any means, so the Map doubles as a constant "you are here" indicator. The shapes use their real outlines (a circle reads as a circle), and arrows show as connecting lines, so the overview is a faithful miniature rather than a grid of blocks.
When it shows, and turning it off
The Map appears once a tab has a few elements to map, and it sits in the bottom-left corner. It's a desktop convenience, so it stays hidden on phones where the canvas is already edge-to-edge.
- To hide it, switch off Enable Map in Settings, under Panels › Map.
- To bring it back, switch Enable Map on again in the same place. Its size and the shading outside your view live there too.
On a big canvas, scroll on the Map to zoom straight into a far corner, instead of panning all the way there and zooming separately.
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