Canvas is a new interface that pops up in your le Chat window when you need to go beyond conversations and into ideation. It enables you to collaborate with Mistral LLMs on shared outputs, enabling 0-1 creation and ideation for knowledge work.
No longer restricted to bidirectional conversations, Canvas enables you to directly modify, edit or transform content aided by the powerful reasoning capabilities of LLMs.The canvas feature allows users to create and manipulate visual content directly within the chat interface. To use it, simply access the canvas tool from the chat options and start creating your visuals.
How to access
Usage Limits: Canvas is subject to daily usage limits in le Chat Free. For unlimited use of the Canvas, you can upgrade to le Chat Pro or le Chat Team.
Enabling Canvas: Click the “Canvas” button under the chat bar to enable the feature. Note that the interface may change over time.
Activation: When you prompt Le Chat with tasks that involve substantial writing or coding like creating a HTML web page, it may automatically open a Canvas. You can also manually trigger it by including “use canvas” in your prompt.
How to use
Editing: Click directly into the Canvas to make manual edits to your text or code.
Preview: Use the preview button to toggle between viewing and hiding the preview.
Interactivity: Highlight text or code to ask le Chat for explanations or modifications.
Iteration: Request follow-up edits from le Chat, and it will generate revisions quickly.
React/HTML rendering: Canvas supports React/HTML rendering in a sandbox environment, allowing the use of all npm packages and many JavaScript libraries.
Mermaid and Marp Rendering: Canvas is capable of rendering Mermaid graphs and Marp slide presentations.
Quick Actions : Easily modify any Canvas by highlighting the text, code or data you want to transform or by clicking on the bottom left and using our predefined actions such as translate, analyze, and proofread.
Export or Share your Canvas : click on the share button on the top right corner of the Canvas and select your desired output.
Use Cases
Create a static web page
Create a document
Create presentation slides
Create graphs
Example Demo