Canvases

Canvases are Stilla's core document format — rich, collaborative documents where your team and AI work together in real time.

What are canvases?

A canvas is an editable document stored as markdown and rendered with full WYSIWYG formatting in the Stilla app. Think of canvases as living documents that combine notes, decisions, change proposals, and AI-generated content in one place.

Every conversation with Stilla happens alongside a canvas. The AI writes to the canvas, you edit it, your teammates contribute — all simultaneously.

Rich editing

The canvas editor supports the full range of markdown formatting:

• Headers, bold, italic, and strikethrough
• Ordered and unordered lists
• Code blocks with syntax highlighting
• Tables, images, and embedded links
• Blockquotes and horizontal rules

Content is stored as markdown under the hood, so it's portable and version-friendly. But in the editor, everything renders beautifully with a clean, distraction-free interface.

Real-time collaboration

Multiple users and AI agents can edit the same canvas simultaneously. Changes appear in real time for everyone.

This is what makes Stilla different from traditional AI assistants — AI is a first-class collaborator, not a chatbot in a separate window. When Stilla processes a meeting transcript, drafts a document, or extracts change proposals, the results appear directly in the canvas where your team can immediately review and refine them.

Change proposals

When Stilla suggests changes to other apps — creating a Linear issue, sending a Slack message, updating a GitHub PR — these appear as change proposals at the bottom of the canvas.

Each item shows exactly what will happen. You review, accept, or reject each one individually. Nothing changes in your other apps until you approve it.

Sharing, and permissions

Control who sees your canvases:

• Individual sharing: Invite specific team members as viewers or editors
• Organization sharing: Make a canvas visible to everyone in your Stilla workspace
• Public sharing: Generate a public link for anyone to access (like external stakeholders)

Canvas owners control access levels. Editors can modify access and content; viewers can only read.

Canvas types

• Regular: Standard documents for notes, specs, reports, or any content
• Meeting: Automatically linked to calendar events. Created when Stilla transcribes a meeting, containing summaries, decisions, and change proposals
• Agent run: Created by agent executions. Each agent run gets its own canvas showing what the agent did and what it proposed

... and more (example memory)

Attachments

Canvases support file attachments including documents, images, recordings, and other media. Upload files directly or let Stilla attach relevant content from meeting recordings and integrations.