Post-its & text boxes
Coloured sticky notes for quick thoughts and longer rich-text passages.
Boards
Boards are a pannable, zoomable canvas for organising the bits of your game that benefit from being laid out visually — notes, characters, plot threads, linked locations, conspiracies. Think of them as a digital corkboard with smart, typed nodes you can connect.
What goes on a board
Section titled “What goes on a board”Paper sheets
Rich-text sheets styled like real paper, with lined / dotted / squared rulings and a distinct title and body — see Paper nodes.
Cards & pins
Pin existing cards from your card library or bookmark any other resource.
People
Character cards with avatars for quick reference.
Frames & containers
Group nodes visually, navigate between regions, and present your board as a slideshow — see Frames.
Tables
Editable grids for tracking lists — see Tables.
Entity & event nodes
Link a node to a canonical world entity, or track quest/timeline events — see Entity and event nodes.
Drawings
Freehand sketches and shapes — see Drawing tools.
Images
Drop a picture from your asset library, a URL, or an upload — see Images.
Live collaboration
Edit a board together in real time — shared cursors, a “who’s live” roster, and per-node editing indicators. See Live collaboration.
Scene & wiki embeds
Drop a live, read-only mini-view of a scene, world map, or wiki graph onto the board — see Embed nodes.
Connect any two nodes with a labelled edge to show relationships. Drop a comment on any node or empty canvas point to start a discussion.
Creating a board
Section titled “Creating a board”From the Boards page in the app:
- Click + Create Board.
- Give it a name and an optional description.
- Optionally attach it to a world — anyone you’ve shared the world with then automatically gets access to the board too.
Boards can also live on their own without a world; sharing is then managed per-board. You can pick a board type and edit these details later — see Creating and editing boards and Board types.
Working on the canvas
Section titled “Working on the canvas”- Pan — click and drag empty canvas, or middle-mouse drag.
- Zoom — scroll wheel, or pinch on a trackpad.
- Add a node — drag one out of the Library rail down the left. On a wide screen it stays open beside the canvas; on a phone it opens as a drawer and closes itself once you’ve added something.
- Bring in a picture or a piece of music — the Library’s Assets tab browses your asset folders. Drag an image onto the canvas for its own node, onto a story node to make it that node’s cover, or drag a piece of music out to get a cue that plays it. Drop a file from your desktop onto the tab to upload it into the folder you’re looking at.
- Connect nodes — hover a node to reveal its handles, then drag from one handle to another.
- Move multiple nodes — drag-select a region, then align, distribute, or group them — see Arranging nodes.
- Group with a frame — pick the Frame Tool from the toolbar, then drag a region around the nodes you want to keep together.
- Auto-layout — let the board tidy or arrange nodes for you — see Auto-layout.
- Keyboard shortcuts — undo, duplicate, group, present, and more — see Keyboard shortcuts.
- Right-click a node — a context menu with duplicate, lock, layer order, group, align, and delete — see Arranging nodes.
Sharing & access
Section titled “Sharing & access”From the Boards list, expand a board’s card, click Details, and choose Share.
- Editors can change the canvas — add, move, delete nodes, draw, and edit comments.
- Readers (viewer access) can see everything and post comments, but can’t change the canvas itself.
If the board belongs to a world, anyone you’ve shared the world with shows up as an inherited member on the board’s Access tab — they get access via the world rather than the board directly.
Inspector
Section titled “Inspector”The right-rail Inspector shows details for whatever you’ve got selected:
- Nothing selected — board name, description, background style, grid colour.
- One node — that node’s specific settings (alignment, padding, lock state, …).
- Multiple nodes — alignment and distribution controls.
- One edge — edge type, label, colour.
Toggle the Inspector from the toolbar’s Settings button.