Embeds on the canvas

Play a video or open a Figma file and a Google Doc right on the canvas.

An Embed puts someone else's page on your canvas: a video that plays where it sits, a Figma file, a Google Doc. They live in the palette's Media category, behind the Embed row — open it and pick the service you want.

ServiceLinks that work
YouTubewatch, share (youtu.be), Shorts, live and embed links
Vimeoa vimeo.com video link
Looma share or embed link
Figmaany file, prototype or board link
Googlea Doc, Sheet or Slides link you have shared

Adding one

Open Media → Embed in the palette and pick a service.

Double-click the card and paste the link. It tells you straight away if it can't embed that address.

Press play, or Load embed, when you want it running.

Nothing loads until you ask

An embed does not start on its own. A YouTube card shows the video's poster frame and waits for you to press play; every other service shows a named card with a Load embed button.

That is deliberate, and not only for tidiness. A board with eight videos would otherwise open eight players every time anyone looked at it, and simply opening a diagram would report you to those services. YouTube embeds play through youtube-nocookie.com, which sets nothing until playback actually starts.

Keeping the canvas usable

An embedded page would normally swallow every click inside its rectangle, which would leave a hole in your canvas that you could not drag or select. So the player ignores the pointer by default, even while it is playing — you can always drag an embed around.

When you want to use the player itself, two small controls appear in its top-left corner while it runs:

  • Use the player hands the pointer over so you can seek, change the volume or go fullscreen. Press it again to get dragging back.
  • Stop closes the player and returns to the card. This is also how you pause, since pausing means clicking the player.

The link badge in the corner still opens the original page in a new tab. Playing something here and opening it at the source are different intentions, and both are worth having.

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