Features

Infinite ways to put a thought on the board.

It starts with a canvas and boards inside boards. Then every card type, how it behaves, and what it looks like. Nothing here needs an account or a connection; the browser version follows later.

01Organise 02Cards 03Edit and move Keyboard
HomeStudio
Studio
Research
12 cards
Moodboard
31 cards
Clients
8 cards
Writing
19 cards
This week3
Send proposal
BriefEstimate
Idea
One board per client, one column per week.
Boards inside boards
01 · Organise

Structure that grows with you.

It starts with a canvas. Boards hold other boards, columns hold cards in order, frames group what belongs together.

The canvas

One endless surface with no pages and no edges. Drop anything in wherever it lands, pan with two fingers, pinch to zoom, and marquee-select a group to move it together. Pick a background colour and switch the dot grid on or off.

Studio
Pitch in three lines, not thirty.
Book studioSend brief
Reference deckfigma.com
Warmer palette, less grid.
Feedback
100%+Fit
BackgroundDotsNone

Boards inside boards

When a corner of the canvas grows into a project, give it its own board. Breadcrumbs show where you are; Back and Forward work like a browser, including swipe on the trackpad.

HomeProduct launchResearch
Interviews
12 cards
Moodboard
31 cards
Competitors
8 cards
Double-click a board to step in

Columns

Stack cards under a title and they stay in order. A row of columns is a Kanban board. Fold a finished column to its header to keep it out of the way, and select cards and choose Group into Column to make one from what is already there.

Ideas4
Weekly digest
Template gallery
Onboarding tour
In progress2
Import fixes
SpecBuild
Shipped▸ 11

Frames

A hand-sketched rectangle that groups cards visually without grabbing them. Cards inside still move on their own; the frame just says these belong together.

Round one
Sketch A
Tuesday
Feedback: warmer, less grid.
Outside the frame
02 · Cards

Everything you can put on a board.

Notes, titles, to-dos, images, links and files. Each one is a card you can drag, resize, tint and stack, and each one keeps its own smarts.

Notes

Rich text with bold, italic, underline, bullet and numbered lists. Eight pastel tints to tell notes apart at a glance, and font sizes from 12 to 32 so a note can be a caption or a headline.

Reading list
Bold, italic and underline.
  1. The Shape of Design
  2. How Buildings Learn
A note can shout.
Or whisper, at 12 points.

Titles

Big headings that name a region of the board. Pick a fill and a text colour, align left, centre or right, and drag the edge to set the width.

Q4 launch plan
Centred, dark
Right-aligned
FillText

To-dos

Checklists that behave like text: Enter adds a row, Backspace removes an empty one. Drag rows up and down, or drag one out onto the canvas and it becomes its own list.

Before the trip
Book train⋮⋮
Print tickets⋮⋮
Charge camera⋮⋮
New item…
Charge camera
Drops out as its own list

Images

Drop from Finder, paste a screenshot, or drop onto an empty image card. Resize from any corner and the proportions stay put. Every image is a file in your folder, not a blob in a database.

photo · 3:2
Drop an image here
Paste a screenshot with ⌘V, or drag from Finder.

Links

Paste a URL and Boardify fetches the title, description, preview image and favicon, then caches them locally so the card works offline. Video links get a play badge.

are.na
Grids, margins and quiet type
A channel of typographic references…
youtube.com
Studio tour: a paper-first process
Forty minutes on how the studio…
Preview cached · works offline

Files

PDFs, text files, anything else. PDFs preview inline, text files show their first lines, everything else shows its name and size. One click opens the file in its own app.

Brief v3.pdf1.1 MB
notes.md4 KB
# Kickoff
who is in the room
what we decided
what we parked
recording.m4a
38 MB · Open with one click
03 · Edit and move

Draw, shape, snap into place.

Shapes, lines and freehand drawing turn a board into a diagram, and snap guides keep it tidy while you work.

Shapes and lines

Filled or outlined rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses and more. Lines can be solid or dashed and end in an arrow, a dot or a bar, so a board can carry a diagram without a separate tool.

Stroke
Ends→ · ● · |
Dashed

Draw

Sketch freely over the board: circle a word, draw an arrow, cross something out. When you stop, the strokes become a card you can move, scale and delete like any other.

Ship the beta before the conference, not after.
Why?
Strokes saved as a card

Snap guides

While you drag, cards align to the edges of their neighbours and a violet guide shows the match. Hold ⌘ to move freely. Marquee-select a group and move or resize all of it at once.

Neighbour
Dragging this one
Aligned top
hold to move freely
Keyboard

Hands on the keys, not the mouse.

Most of what you do on a board has a shortcut, and they are the ones your fingers already know from every other Mac app.

Keyboard shortcuts

Undo, duplicate, copy style, edit, delete: all from the keyboard, so a board stays fast once you know it.

Undo · Redo⌘Z · ⌘⇧Z
Duplicate⌘D
Select all⌘A
Copy · Cut · Paste⌘C · ⌘X · ⌘V
Copy style · Paste style⌥⌘C · ⌥⌘V
Edit the selected cardReturn
DeleteBackspace
Clear selectionEsc

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