How it all works
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Story
Write a story
Double-click anywhere on the canvas and start typing.
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Move and zoom
Drag the canvas, pinch or scroll to zoom in and out.
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Press 1 – 6
1Story
2Storyboard
3File
4Link
5Slideshow
6Go deeper
Shortcuts 1 – 6
Add anything without lifting a hand off the keys.
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Shift-drag to select
Pick several at once
Shift-drag to select, then move them or line them up.
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A storyboard
off: it lands anywhere
Snapping and the grid
Turn on snapping and every card lands neatly in line.
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Trip planning
Click to go in, arrow to come back
A storyboard inside a storyboard
Click the little picture to go in, the arrow at the top to come back out.
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Drop anything in
Picture
Drop in a file
Pictures, video, sound and PDFs all sit right on the canvas.
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Paste a link
Paste a link
It turns into a live frame you can actually use.
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A story
the room, later
Colours and fonts
Give a story its own paper colour and its own lettering.
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A story
the light came in sideways and, and the room felt older then it was
wand
Clean up your writing
The wand tidies spelling and shape without changing a word of what you said.
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★
Go deeperGo deeper
The star looks things up and shows you where it read them.
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◎Several researchers, all at once
Story-driven, with every source kept
Deep research
Several researchers go out at once and bring back a story, with its sources.
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An answer
How much power does each site use?
Charts and diagrams
When an answer has numbers in it, it draws them instead of listing them.
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The command bar
remember this: I write in the mornings
Things it remembers about you
Say "remember this" and it keeps a note, then brings it back when it helps.
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Search
0 things found
Find a word
Files finds any word you have ever saved here.
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2
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Make changes
Draw a picture
Ask for changes; every version is kept beneath it.
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A picture
Picture versions
Every version stays underneath, and any one can be pulled out on its own.
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Plan
Build
Review
Play
Write a program
It plans, builds, reads it back, then you press play.
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A program
▶
Play and edit a program
Programs run on the card, and you can keep changing them in place.
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A story
a red balloon over a rooftop at dawn
video
Make a video
Say what you want to see and a short clip is made and placed here.
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Press Space
FilesLinkModel@
The command bar
Press Space: ask for anything, attach files and links, use @ to point at things.
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Slideshow
A quiet harbour
First light, one boat leaving.
Press 5 — it opens right here
Make a slideshow
Press 5: a deck opens bigger right here, and every box can be moved.
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Chapter one
A quiet harbour
Paper — the words stay where you put them
A look for your slideshow
Paper, Ink, Editorial, Photo, Studio, Note — it restyles without moving your words.
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A slideshow
Present it
Full screen, one slide at a time, arrows to move.
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Writing
Press S — writing on one side, the storyboard on the other
Story mode
Press S: writing on one half, a storyboard on the other.
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Scene headingEnter and Tab move you along
Download it as a PDF when you're done
Write a script
Enter and Tab walk you through scene heading, action, character and dialogue.
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BIH1•▦
Pages, or one endless roll — then PDF or Word
Write a document
Headings, lists, pictures and tables — as pages or one endless roll.
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A PDF
Editing a PDF
PDFs scroll on the board, and every edited version is kept.
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FreeformAITypeConnectionsThemeTimeGrid
Swipe across the ways — every card glides over
Organise a storyboard
Swipe across the ways to organise; every card glides to its new place.
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Reading everything
Missing: the return trip
Saved as its own arrangement — nothing lost
Let it organise for you
It reads everything, joins things up and writes notes for what's missing.
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WidePitch+
New — drag it in
Keep as many placements as you like
Saved arrangements
Keep several placements of the same cards and flick between them.
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A storyboard
remove it
History and undo
Every change is written down, and one press puts it back.
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Greece
Islands · 4 storyboards
Folders inside folders, in any colour
Folders
Group storyboards into coloured folders, and folders inside folders.
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Your storyboards
Plot☆
Characters★
Notes☆
Pinning and the home canvas
Pin the ones you live in, and your home canvas holds them all.
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Trip to Greece
One press, and you have a second one to play with
Duplicate a storyboard
One press makes a copy, named for you, to play with freely.
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Bin · 1
Put back, or emptied for good
The bin
Nothing goes for good until you say so — put it back, or empty it.
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123
PDF
Picture
Zip
The whole storyboard, or just the cards you picked
PDFs and exporting
The whole board can leave as a PDF, a picture or a zip — or just the parts you pick.
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Elena is writing
Three days in Mykonos
Elena
You
Same story note, both of you in it
Together on one storyboard
Share it and you'll see each other's cursors, writing and messages in a note.
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Sharing
somebody@somewhere
InviteInviting people
Invite somebody and they choose to join; nothing appears in their list uninvited.
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⋮⋮Help1
⋮⋮Files2
⋮⋮Share3
⋮⋮History4
⋮⋮Settings5
Drag them into your own order, rename any of them
Your own top bar
Drag the icons into your order, rename them, hide the ones you never use.
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Storyboard☀
Light and dark
One press changes the room; everything keeps its colours.
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Your shortcuts
Tap any shortcut, then press the keys you'd rather use. Escape leaves it as it was.
Tell the agent
Opens the quick bar
Talk to the agent
Opens the bar listening
- Double-click
New story
Double-click the canvas
Delete selected
Removes the selected card
Undo
Puts the last change back
Close or deselect
Backs out of anything
Bold text
While writing a story
Italic text
While writing a story
Code text
While writing a story
Strike through
While writing a story
Zoom in
Or pinch the canvas
Zoom out
Or pinch the canvas
Add a story
When you're not typing
Add a storyboard
When you're not typing
Add a file
When you're not typing
Add a link
When you're not typing
Add slides
When you're not typing
Go deeper
When you're not typing
Find on this storyboard
Jumps the view to it
Snap to grid
Turns lining-up on and off
Copy picked cards
When you're not typing
Paste cards
Puts the copies down
- Double-click
Pick several cards
Shift-drag across the canvas
- Double-click
Keep the shape while resizing
Hold Shift as you resize
Search your storyboards
On the storyboards page
List or canvas
Switches how your storyboards are shown
Pin a storyboard
Keeps it at the top
Story mode
Splits the screen with a screenplay
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