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# Keep charts and answers on a Snippets canvas in Ask

> Create a Snippets canvas in Mammoth's Ask mode, save AI Agent charts and answers to it, arrange items, freeze a chart at today's numbers and set its theme.
>
> Applies to: Enterprise plans. Where: Ask › Snippets

In Ask mode, **Snippets** in the left navigation holds your canvases: boards where you place charts, numbers, answers and notes from your chats and arrange them. A canvas is private: only you see it (the header shows **Private**), and its charts are drawn with your access each time. Workspace guests see **Read only** and can't change a canvas.

These are not the SQL snippets in the Data Library; see [Parameters and snippets](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/organise/parameters-and-snippets/).



## Create, rename and delete a canvas

- **New canvas** asks "What should it be called?". Type a name and click **Make it**.
- Click the canvas name to rename it (up to 80 characters).
- **More for this canvas** (⋯) has **Theme** and **Delete canvas**. Deleting asks "Delete “Q3 review”? The charts on it go too. Your chats keep theirs." with **Keep it** and **Delete canvas**.

An empty canvas says "Add charts, numbers and notes from your chats".

## Save an Ask answer to a canvas

1. Under a chart or answer in an Ask chat, click **Save**.
2. Pick a canvas, or name a new one and click **Create**.
3. Choose **Keep the chart**: **Live** ("Updates when the data does.") or **As of today** ("Keeps today's numbers.").

You then see "Saved to Q3 review" with **Open**.

## Add charts, numbers and answers to a canvas

**Add** (or press A) opens a picker with three tabs.

| Tab | What it lists |
| --- | --- |
| **Suggested** | **From your page today** (your [Today page](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/today/)) and **From this week's chats**, newest first. |
| **From your chats** | Charts, numbers and answers from your chats. Filter with **All**, **Charts**, **Numbers** or **Answers**, or search. |
| **Make one** | Describe what it should show, for example "Returns by store, this quarter", and click **Show its answer**. The agent writes it from your data. |

Tick items and click **Add 3 to canvas**. With nothing yet: "Nothing to add yet. Charts, numbers and answers from your recent chats show up here."

## Arrange a canvas with its tools

On a phone or in a window narrower than 600px, a canvas is read only. Use a wider window to arrange it.

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Select (V)** | Select, move and resize items. |
| **Hand (H)** | Move around the canvas. |
| **Add (A)** | Opens the Add picker. |
| **Text (T)** | Adds text, sized **Title**, **Heading** or **Body**, with bold, bullets, alignment and a text colour. |
| **Sticky note (S)** | Adds a coloured note. |
| **Frame (F)** | Adds a named frame to group items. |

**Undo** and **Redo** sit in the header. **Zoom in**, **Zoom out** and **Fit** sit in the corner, with an overview map you can click or drag to move the view.

## Freeze a canvas chart at today's numbers

Select an item for its toolbar:

| Action | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Edit** | Opens a chart's own panel. |
| **Change in words…** | Changes a chart from a description, for example "only the North region, split by channel". |
| **Freeze as of today** | "Keeps the numbers it shows now." The chart then shows **Frozen** with the date. |
| **Make live** | "Shows its file's latest numbers again." |
| **Duplicate**, **Bring to front**, **Delete** | As named. |
| **Open the chat it came from** | Opens the source chat. |

If someone changed the canvas in another tab, you see "This canvas changed somewhere else. You're seeing the latest version."

## Change a canvas's theme and background

**Theme** opens the look panel.

| Option | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Style** | The canvas style, from the dashboard styles. |
| **Light or dark** | Where the style supports both. |
| **Background** | **Plain**, **Dots** or **Grid**. |
| **Background colour** | A colour, or **The style's own colour**. In dark mode the background takes the style's own colour. |

## Troubleshooting canvases

| Symptom or message | Cause | Fix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| "This chart holds too much data to freeze." | The chart has too much data to keep as a snapshot | Keep it **Live** |
| A canvas won't let you move items | Phone, window narrower than 600px, or you're a guest (**Read only**) | Use a wider window; guests can't change a canvas |

## Related

- [Ask mode](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/ask-mode/): where Snippets and Ask chats live.
- [Today, alerts and dashboards](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/today/): your daily page, a source for canvas items.
- [Agent charts](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/agent-charts/): chart actions in Build chats.

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Source: https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/snippets-canvas.md · Updated: 2026-11-08