The Plan
The Plan is the canvas next to your draft, infinite in every direction. Scroll, zoom, pan. Beats, research, character maps, the photo that started the whole idea, all next to the writing instead of in another app. (Older screens may still say Board; same surface.)
The toolbar, top to bottom
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⋯ (canvas options) | The input device menu: Auto-Detect, Mouse, or Trackpad, plus a Glide toggle for how the canvas moves. If gestures feel wrong, fix them here. |
| Select (V) | The default cursor. Click to select, drag to move, drag on empty canvas to marquee-select a group. |
| Sticky | Sixteen colors. Pick one, click the canvas, type. One idea per card. |
| Text | Plain words straight on the canvas, no frame. Labels, titles, act marks. |
| Note | A full page on the canvas. Opens the same block editor as the Draft. See below. |
| Lines & Shapes | Lines: straight, elbow, curve. Shapes: square, rounded square, circle, triangle, diamond, star. Connect anything to anything. |
| Upload | Upload from computer (photos, video, audio, PDFs, docs) or paste a YouTube link. Files land as tiles; video plays in place. |
| Undo / Redo | Also Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z. |
Notes
A fresh Note arrives as “Untitled Note” with the familiar “Write, type ‘/’ for commands” and a Choose a starting template list. In a manuscript project: Synopsis, Outline, Character, Setting, Research. In a screenplay project: Logline, Synopsis, Treatment, Character, Beat Sheet. Templates are starting points, not cages; edit anything, or ignore the list and write.
Select a Note and its bar appears: the title, expand (full screen page, click again to collapse), pin (the Note becomes a tab at the top of the project, next to Draft and Plan), lock (fixes it in place), and a menu with Copy, layer order (Bring front, Bring forward, Send backward, Send to back), and Delete. Inside, a Note is a full editor with its own undo and redo, and its own menu for exporting or importing that single page as DOCX or Markdown.
Stickies, text, and shapes
Select any element and a small toolbar appears: text size, alignment, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, a lock, and the layer menu. Every element has resize handles on the corners and connector dots on the sides; drag a dot to another element and an arrow joins them. Copy an element with Ctrl+C, delete with Del.
The bottom bar
A census of the canvas on the left (“1 Note · 3 Stickies · 1 Text”), the minimap toggle (a floating overview with your viewport marked), and the zoom controls. The canvas remembers position and zoom per project.
The Plan is the youngest surface in the studio. Performance and gestures are still tuning.