Drawing & the canvas

The board is a full-bleed, infinite stage: pan anywhere, zoom from overview to detail, and draw at whatever scale the idea wants. Everything lives on the floating tool rail at the left edge; everything about a thing you've already drawn lives in the restyle pill that floats above your selection.

The tool rail

More shapes opens the rest: Diamond (D), Triangle (G), Pentagon, Hexagon, Star, Chevron, Parallelogram, Cylinder, and Speech callout. They behave like the rectangle and the ellipse — drag to draw, type to put text inside.

Below the tools, the rail carries drawing-default chips: the ink color, stroke/text size, fill, and (when the sticky tool is active) note color that the next shape is born with. They never touch existing shapes — restyling a selection is the pill's job.

Selection

With the select tool, click a shape or drag a marquee around several. A selection gets:

• Move — drag anywhere inside the bounds.
• Resize — corner and edge handles.
• Rotate — a handle above the selection (lines, arrows, and connectors don't rotate; their endpoints define the angle).
• The restyle pill — floats just above the selection and carries everything you can change about it. Restyles apply to the whole selection as one undoable change.

⌘A selects everything, ⌘D duplicates the selection, Backspace deletes it.

What's on the pill

It shows only what applies to what you've selected, in a fixed order:

• Colour — outline or text colour, fill, note colour on a sticky, and opacity. Outline sets weight and one of solid, dashed, dotted, long dash or dash dot.
• Text — smaller and bigger, then a Text style panel with the font, an exact size, shrink-to-fit and alignment. Bold (⌘B), Italic (⌘I), Underline, Strikethrough, and bulleted or numbered lists. These apply to the text you've highlighted, or to the whole block if you haven't highlighted any.
• Object — Link (⌘K), Crop on an image with Reset crop to undo it, and routing on a connector: Route with elbows or Route straight.
• Arrange — Align and distribute, Group (⌘G) and Ungroup (⌘⇧G), Lock (⌘⇧L), Bring to front (]) and Send to back ([).
• Delete (⌫).

Undo is yours alone

⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z rewind and replay your changes — never a collaborator's. On a shared board, your undo can't yank someone else's stroke out from under them.

Images

Paste an image from the clipboard or drag files onto the board — each lands as a shape at the drop point (or the center of your view) and moves, resizes, and rotates like anything else. PNG, JPEG, WebP, and GIF up to 5 MB. Images belong to the board: they're visible to anyone who can see the sketch and nobody else.

Annotate a PDF

Drop a PDF onto the board and every page lands as its own image, laid out in a row at the page's true proportions — then draw, highlight, sticky-note, and connect on top with the regular tools, together. The camera fits the imported pages when they land. Long documents import their first 30 pages, and a message tells you when one was cut.

Pasting isn't just for images — paste the URL of anything in your workspace and it becomes a reference card; pasting the same content repeatedly staggers each copy so they don't stack invisibly.

Export as PNG

From the File menu, Export as PNG in three scopes:

The File menu also holds Make a copy — a duplicate board with all the current shapes, useful for forking a direction without losing the original — plus rename and archive.

Keyboard summary

V H P E R O L A C T S D G N switch tools · space-drag pans · ⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z undo / redo · ⌘A select all · ⌘D duplicate · Backspace delete · [ / ] z-order · @ searches your workspace for something to drop on the board.

Press ? in any editor for the full list.