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Every project in Migma has a Visual Canvas — an open, zoomable workspace where the things you’re making and the things that inspire them live side by side. Each email, social post, and blog article shows up as a node you can move around. Around them you can pin the raw material: HTML files, images, sticky notes, and links to inspiration you want to keep close.
The canvas is a planning surface, not a separate editor. Content still lives where it always has — the canvas adds a spatial layer on top so you can see and organize the whole project at a glance.

What lives on the canvas

Anything you’ve created for the project is already there. As you generate more, new nodes appear automatically.

Emails

Every email in the project, rendered as a live preview you can arrange.

Social posts

Social content for the project, shown alongside the emails it supports.

Blog articles

Long-form articles, kept in the same workspace as the rest of the project.
A project canvas with several email nodes, a sticky note, and a reference pin

Adding references

The canvas isn’t only for finished content. Right-click anywhere on an empty part of the surface to drop in supporting material that shapes what you build.
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Open the canvas menu

Right-click on an empty area of the canvas to bring up the add menu.
2

Pick what to add

Choose a market inspiration reference, paste in raw HTML, or drop a sticky note.
3

Position it

Drag the new node anywhere. It stays where you put it.
Here’s what each kind is for:
NodeWhat it’s for
Sticky noteA short note to yourself or a teammate — direction, a reminder, an open question.
HTML referencePaste an existing HTML email. Migma can convert it into a fully editable email.
Image referenceA brand asset or a generated visual you want to keep on hand while you work.
Link / market referenceA URL or a competitor email pinned as inspiration, with a thumbnail preview.
Use sticky notes to leave direction right next to the email it’s about. Because the canvas is shared, a note you drop is visible to everyone working in the project.
The right-click canvas menu showing options to add a reference, HTML, or sticky note

Turning an HTML reference into an email

An HTML reference starts as a preview pinned to the canvas. When you want to actually work on it, Migma converts it into an editable email that compiles through the same engine as everything else you make.

HTML Import

See how raw HTML becomes a fully editable, email-safe Migma email.

Connecting and grouping nodes

Once you have nodes on the canvas, you can show how they relate.
Connect one node to another to sketch out the order or relationship between them — for example, the path through a sequence of emails. Flow lines are a visual aid for planning; they document how you think the pieces fit together.
Flow lines and groups are organizational. They help you and your team read the canvas; they don’t change how or when anything sends.

Version history

Every meaningful change to the canvas is captured as a version, so you can always look back — or go back.
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Open the history dropdown

The version control in the canvas header lists each saved version with a label and how long ago it was made. The most recent is marked latest.
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Preview a past version

Select any version to view the canvas as it was at that point, read-only, without changing anything.
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Restore in one click

Restore a version to bring the canvas back to that state. Migma confirms first and shows you which later additions would leave the current view.
Restoring rewinds the canvas to an earlier turn — newer versions made after that point are dropped from the live view. Anything removed stays recoverable from history, but read the confirmation before you restore.
The canvas version history dropdown listing past versions with restore controls

Working together

The canvas is realtime and multiplayer — when teammates are in the same project, you see each other’s changes as they happen. That’s covered in its own guide.

Realtime Collaboration

How presence, live updates, and shared editing work across a project.

Where to next

Email Series

Plan and generate a sequence of emails for the project.

Realtime Collaboration

Work the canvas alongside your team in real time.

HTML Import

Convert pinned HTML into a fully editable email.

Clone from Image

Recreate any email from a screenshot.