Name: 7 Mind Blowing Use Cases For Gemini Canvas
Uploaded: 2026-03-22T01:00:15.000Z
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So Gemini has this secret interactive workspace called Canvas that completely changes the way that you use Gemini.

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Instead of just getting a text response from it, you can actually build things with it.

Mini apps, working prototypes, playable games, stuff that you can actually click around in and use.

A lot of people already know about Canvas, but

they just don't understand the full potential and power of it.

So today I'm going to show you some mind blowing use cases for Gemini Canvas.

To understand the power of Canvas, let's open up a normal chat on Gemini and we'll send it a prompt.

I use my voice dictation app to tell Gemini, help me write an email to my boss about quitting my job.

Tell her it's nothing personal, I just found a better opportunity and I've actually really enjoyed working for her.

But I am giving in my two weeks notice now.

Notice that when I submit this, it sends me the draft here in the chat and I cannot make any edits to this.

So notice right here that there are some placeholders for like my boss's name and my name and the last date I'll be working for her and I can't change those.

Everything is here in the chat, so if I want to make any changes, I would have to put that in here.

Then when it changes up the response and if I want to see the prior one, I have to scroll all the way back up.

It does work, but it's quite clunky and it's very difficult to work with.

Let's do the same thing now, but with Canvas turned on.

So what I'll do is I'll scroll up to the top and I will copy down my original prompt by clicking this button right here that says copy prompt.

Let's go ahead and start a new chat and this time I'm going to paste in that prompt and I'm going to select Tools and I'm going to turn on Canvas.

So I get a lot of thinking usage out of Gemini.

And if you are one of the paid plans, I would recommend that you use Thinking as much as possible because you are going to get better results.

Let's go ahead and click on Submit and you can see it is now creating this side panel with the email draft inside it.

What's more, this is an interactive environment where you can actually work with Gemini on your project.

So for instance, right here I can actually delete the placeholder and enter in my boss's name.

I can put in the Exact date, date that I'm going to be leaving, and

I can make any other changes that I want to make.

Once I'm finally done and happy with this email, I can do a few things up here.

I can print it and it's just going to print this and nothing else.

I can go ahead and share and export it as well.

Export it docs or just copy the contents.

And again, clicking this is only going to copy this information and nothing else.

By contrast, if we come over to the original one right here, any chat inside Gemini has this copy button right here.

that's also going to copy down all of this information as well, which is not part of the email.

So really, working inside of Canvas like this is a much better experience.

The best way to describe Canvas is like this.

Regular Gemini is for chatting, but Canvas is for creating.

But in reality, that example I just gave you was a very simple one, because with Canvas, you can do a lot more powerful things.

So here I am inside a regular chat with Gemini, and

I started asking questions about rock climbing because it's my goal this year to start rock climbing.

And specifically we put together for me a training plan to actually get up and running with rock climbing.

I'm going to turn on tools and I'm going to select Canvas and I'm going to tell Gemini create an app for me where I can track all of my rock climbing progress and training.

Now over here on the right, you can see that Gemini is now actually coding this app for me.

It doesn't matter if it's just going out and it's doing it for me.

And in literally just a couple of minutes, we now have our new app, Climb Track Pro.

I can choose what type of training drill I did, my perceived effort, and

Let's go ahead and save that session up here.

I can now see I've completed one total session and one drill.

This is a real functional app that actually tracks all of my climbing.

And the best part is I can click up here on share and actually share it.

Let's go ahead and copy that link, open up a new tab, and

Of course, if you want to make any changes to this, you can just tell Gemini, over here.

So, for instance, I can tell it add some sort of pie graph that actually shows my progress over time because I want to make sure that I'm climbing at least seven days a week.

So as the week continues and I do more sessions, that pie graph can fill up and submitting that it will then get to work and actually add that new feature in there as well.

And here is a new dashboard with the weekly goal progress chart at the top.

For this next example, we are going to use Gemini and Canvas to help us learn a new topic.

In this case, it's rock climbing and all the different terms that you need to know to be familiar with rock climbing.

So I'll go ahead and activate Canvas and I'm going to tell it.

I know there are a lot of terms that are thrown around at the rock climbing gym that I don't understand.

Create a comprehensive report for me with all those different terms that might come up and the definitions of them and anything else that I really know or need to know to get started with rock climbing.

Now go ahead and turn on thinking and submit that.

So over here on the right, you can see that Gemini is writing out this very detailed study report for me about what I need to know about rock climbing and all the different terms.

So this is pretty useful, but it's not the optimal way of learning.

To do that, you want something that's more interactive.

So coming up here to Canvas, you'll notice that there's a button right here that says create.

Let's go ahead and choose for this first one.

So if I click on flashcards, we now have rock climbing flashcards.

And you can even track your learning over time.

And you can kind of track your learning over time.

But there's more you can do in Canvas, so let's scroll back up to the top to the original document and I'll click on open.

And this time I'm going to show you what quizzes look like.

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