Pinboards

A pinboard is a free wall inside a project. You put sticky notes, cards, lists, files, mindmaps and sketches on it, arrange them as you like and tie them together with strings. Use it to see how the parts of a project hang together.

Open or create a pinboard

Every project with a folder in iCloud Drive has a pinboard called Pinboard. To add another one:

1. Open the project. In the sidebar, find Pinboards.
2. Tap New Pinboard… (or choose New › New Pinboard…).
3. Enter a name and choose Create.

Tap a pinboard in the sidebar to open it. Its context menu (touch and hold, or right-click on Mac) offers Rename… and Delete Pinboard. The default Pinboard can’t be renamed or deleted.

Put things on the wall

• Insert, the first button of the toolbar at the top: Sticky Note, Card ›, List ›, File ›, Mindmap ›, Sketch › and New Sketch…. The new item appears in the middle of the view.
• Double-tap (on Mac, double-click) an empty spot on the wall. The Add here menu opens right there, and the item lands on that spot.
• Drag cards, files, mindmaps and sketches from the project sidebar onto the wall.
• Or choose Pin to … in their context menu in the sidebar. It pins to the pinboard you used last.
• On Mac: drop files from the Finder. Files from outside the iKanban folder are copied into the project folder first. Dropped text becomes a sticky note.

New Sketch… creates a sketch and pins it at once. On iPad and iPhone you can start drawing in it right away. See Sketches.

Work with items

• Drag an item to move it. Drag the empty wall to scroll.
• Select an item and pull the round handle at its bottom-right corner to resize it.
• Double-tap a sticky note to write on it. Double-tap any other item to jump to it: a card opens on the board, a mindmap in its view, a PDF or image under Files. Back returns to the wall.
• On iPad and iPhone, double-tap a pinned sketch (or choose Draw Here) to draw in it. Done ends drawing.
• An item’s context menu offers Open, Bring to Front, Connect to ›, Color › (sticky notes) and Remove from Pinboard. On Mac, the Delete key removes the selected item.

Select several items

Tap Select (the lasso next to Insert) to work with several items at once:

• Tap items to add them to the selection or take them out again. Drag across empty space to select everything inside the frame.
• Drag one of the selected items to move them all.
• The bar at the bottom shows how many items are selected and offers Bring to Front and Remove from Pinboard. Done ends the selection.

Undo and Redo in the toolbar reverse and reapply grouped edits from the current editing session. Undoing removal restores the pinned items and their strings. The linked originals remain unchanged.

Item sizes: a pinned card fills its frame with the card’s color and shows as much of the title as fits. A list shows as many open cards as fit, then “+n more”. A pinned sketch starts at half the size of its board and keeps its proportions when you resize it. Reset Size in the inspector restores the default size.

Tie items together with strings

1. Select an item. An orange handle appears at its top-left corner.
2. Drag the handle onto another item.

Tap the dot or label in the middle of a string to select it. In the inspector you can give it a label and a note (a small post-it on the string), switch on Directed (from → to), Reverse it or Remove String. The string’s context menu has the same actions.

Zoom and background

Pinch to zoom, or tap the percentage at the right of the toolbar: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Actual Size and Fit, which shows all items. With a keyboard, ⌘+, ⌘− and ⌘0 work too. Zoom goes from 25 % to 300 %.

Each pinboard has its own background: Dots, Plain or Cork. Choose it in the Add here menu or in the inspector. For dots, a slider sets how visible they are.

The pinboard inspector

With nothing selected, the inspector describes the wall: its name, the background, how many items and strings it holds, and a list of all items with their strings. Tap an entry to jump to that item.

With an item selected, the inspector shows its caption (or a sticky note’s text and color), what it links to with Open, its size and its strings.

On Mac and iPad a pinboard can also open in its own window. See Full Screen and Windows.