# I'm embarrassed to ask: What is the "Canvas"?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/im-embarrassed-to-ask-what-is-the-canvas/21175 "2021-02-04T00:02:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senthil\_Seveelavananan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/senthil_seveelavananan/32/10243_2.png) [@Senthil\_Seveelavananan](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Senthil_Seveelavananan)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/im-embarrassed-to-ask-what-is-the-canvas/21175/8 "2021-02-10T11:00:50Z")

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Apologies, that was a hasty post.

I was echoing the comment from @Paul_Danyliuk, especially

> As of Feb 2021, you cannot reference data from the canvas (i.e. you cannot reference the text that you type in a page). Maybe Coda adds this capability in the future. At the moment, you can only reference data from tables.

For me, I would like to reference blocks of text, similar to ‘[block reference](https://www.roamtips.com/home/what-is-block-roam-research)’ in roamresearch.  
And ‘transclusion’ in MediaWiki, I previously created a related [forum post](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/transclusion-reusing-text-from-one-block-to-another-but-not-text-derived-from-a-table/14597).

In general, would be great if everything created everywhere was reusable/referenceable. Ideally with ability to add labels or ids. For example, could add an id and labels to sentences, paragraphs etc. Without having to define them within formulas.

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