Help Arranging the canvas

Move and resize

Drag cards anywhere on the canvas and resize them from their handles. They stay exactly where you put them.

Move

Drag a card, or several selected cards together. Cards follow your cursor exactly; nothing snaps.

While you drag, guides show you when an edge or centre lines up with another card, when a gap matches one already on the deck, and how far away the nearest cards are.

Dropping on other cards

Only cards you actually overlap move. They slide aside, pushing their neighbours along, and keep a 24px gap from what they hit. Drop close to a card without touching it and nothing moves.
Locked cards never move. A pushed card jumps past one, and a card dropped onto one is nudged to its nearest free side. See Lock a card.
Dropping one card onto the middle of another offers to combine them. See Drop to combine.
Dropping a card over a frame makes it join, and the frame grows to hold it. See Which cards belong to a frame.

Resize

Select one card and drag a handle on its edge or corner. Hold Shift to keep its proportions. Any cards it now overlaps are pushed aside the same way. A card in a frame stays in it, because the frame grows.

Cards have a smallest size, so their contents always fit. Make a number, chart or map bigger in both directions and its text grows with it, up to 3 times. A table or list shows more rows instead.

Good to know

To scale several cards at once, select them and drag a corner of the outline around them. See Select several.
To line cards up, use the right panel’s tools, or “Tidy up”. See Align, distribute, match, tidy.
Locked cards can’t be dragged or resized.
With auto layout on, dragging a card reorders the grid, and resizing changes the height of its whole row. See Auto layout.
Every move and resize is one undo step. See Undo and redo.

Who can do this

Editors and admins. Viewers can look but can’t move cards. See Roles: admin, editor, viewer.