This works! I was on an existing chat GPT chat and said ‘Can we do this in canvas’ and then exactly what you described happened.
Thank you so much!
I’m using the Windows app and it used to work for me, but not anymore. I ditch this app and work in the browser to see if it works.
I have the same issue with the Windows app and found that if I spam the open canvas button it opens after 3 or 4 times of clicking.
With this you can open the Canvas with one click.
https://chat.openai.com/?q=Open the Canvas.
You can also use proper urlencoding, but it is not necessary.
https://chat.openai.com/?q=Open%20the%20Canvas.
I couldn’t find official documentation about this feature of query-in-url for chatgpt (if you do, please respond).
It seems you can specify the model, but in my experience it then changes to model=auto (look at the url changing)
https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4o-mini&q=Open the Canvas.
https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4&q=Open the Canvas.