Whiteboards

#Tools

Also in the toolbar: Insert image, Emoji or sticker, Link page (a card linking to a Flowplan page) and Templates: retrospective, kanban, mind map, SWOT analysis, flowchart.

#Style elements

Selected elements show a bar with colour, font size, bold, alignment, line width and style, Bring forward/Send backward, Duplicate (⌘ D) and Delete (Del). Sticky notes and text can also be hidden – like a spoiler in a document, revealed with a click.

A double click edits an element's text. Copy and paste work within and between whiteboards.

#Mind maps

Select a sticky note, shape or text and press Tab: a connected branch appears on the right, ready to be labelled. Tab on the new branch branches further, ⌥ Enter adds a sibling. The mind map arranges itself: branches sit to the right of their parent, evenly spaced and centred. Arrange mind map in an element's bar rearranges the whole tree. Typing on a selected sticky note starts writing right away.

#Align, stack and sort

• When moving, edges and centres snap to other elements; orange guides show to which. ⌥ while dragging turns snapping off.
• Snap to grid (grid button at the bottom) snaps elements without neighbours to the 24-point grid.
• Select several elements → Arrange: align left, centre, right, top, middle or bottom, distribute evenly or stack as a row or column.
• For workshops: Group by colour, Group by person (with headings), Sort by votes or Arrange as grid.

#Pen and shape recognition

With a tablet pen (such as an Apple Pencil) the stroke width follows the pressure. Choose the colour in the pen menu; with Recognise shapes, drawn lines, rectangles, circles, triangles and diamonds turn into clean shapes (⌥ on release keeps the stroke).

#Images, icons and records

• Images and icons (magnifier in the toolbar) searches freely licensed images on Openverse; chosen images are uploaded to the server, and the credit shows as a tooltip on the image. There is also the icon library in ten colours.
• Link page → Record from "…" places a database record as a card. The card shows the title and up to three properties and stays up to date when the record changes; a double click opens it.

#Navigate

• Zoom with ⌘ + scroll wheel, trackpad gestures or the buttons at the bottom right.
• Show everything (⇧ 1) fits the view to all elements.
• Undo ⌘ Z, redo ⇧ ⌘ Z.

#Work together

• Live cursors: you see the others' pointers with names in real time, as in Miro. Someone working outside your viewport appears as a marker at the edge; a click on it jumps there.
• Changes appear for everyone within seconds, also after a time without a connection.
• A timer for workshop phases, visible to everyone.
• Voting: set the votes per person and start; everyone puts dots on elements, and the result shows the ranking. Anonymous voting shows everyone only their own votes until the vote ends – so nobody influences the others.
• Follow me (person icon at the bottom): everyone else sees your viewport and follows you as you pan and zoom. Whoever pans or zooms themselves stops following and can return with Follow. End lifts it for everyone.
• Comments on spots of the canvas, with replies and mentions.

#Present

As soon as there are frames, Present appears. The frames are shown one after another in reading order (top to bottom, left to right), filling the screen; arrow keys or the buttons page through, End presentation or Esc closes.

#Embed and export

• With /board in a document, a whiteboard becomes part of a page; the button at the top right opens it large.
• Export as PNG or Export as SVG saves the whiteboard as an image.
• The text on the board is searchable and appears in exports.