Canvas & Navigation
Copy, paste & duplicate
The clipboard in visualOS does what you hope: whole selections travel between folders — and pasting from outside (text, images, URLs) creates the right elements automatically.
More in Canvas & Navigation
Within and between folders
- Cmd/Ctrl+C copies the selection, Cmd/Ctrl+X cuts it.
- Navigate anywhere — another folder, another workspace window — and Cmd/Ctrl+V pastes at your cursor position.
- Cut preserves structure: cutting a folder takes its entire contents (and sub-folders) along to the destination.
- Copying a folder copies the folder card itself — by design, duplicates start without the original’s contents, so you can’t accidentally double a whole project tree.
Pasting from other apps
The canvas understands what you give it:
| You paste… | You get… |
|---|---|
| Plain text | A note |
| An image / screenshot | An image element |
| A URL | A link — or a rich preview card for known platforms, or an image if the URL points at one |
Duplicate
Cmd/Ctrl+D (or the floating-bar button) places an offset copy of the selection right next to the original — the fastest way to build rows of same-styled cards. Combined with snapping, it’s a layout machine.
Good to know
visualOS copies use an internal format on the clipboard — that’s what lets whole selections travel between folders and windows. To get a note’s text into another app, open the note and copy the text itself.