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by aragonite 833 days ago
Check out this video from one of my favoriate infinite canvas softwares, especially beginning around 1:25 (which I'm deep-linking to):

https://youtu.be/GblI7GI0jQ4?t=85

(Alas, the original desktop app (iMapping, in Java) as shown in the video is no longer being developed, and now they are only developing the web app (Infinitymaps) only run in the browser, which imo is not the best fit for infinite canvas apps which can be very resource-intensive)

Also see the app author's own all-purpose mega-map that he used to organize everything: https://youtu.be/bTQWL5wmdZY?si=6VrnPIErOzasisEe

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Imo it would need to show varying levels of information density depending on scale. Otherwise, as another commenter stated it's overwhelming....
One of my favourite implementations is a note-taking app on Android/iOS named ZoomNotes, where you can add a "sub-canvas" anywhere that lets you click into it, taking you into a different infinite canvas. This helped me organize my information better. You could nest canvases as much as you wanted.