Navigating & shortcuts
The mouse
| Do this | And the board… |
|---|---|
| Scroll (or pinch on a trackpad) | Zooms in and out around the pointer |
| Drag the empty canvas | Draws a selection box: everything it touches is selected |
Hold Space and drag, or drag with the middle button | Pans around the board |
| Click | Selects: a glowing ring, and everything unconnected fades |
⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) | Adds to the selection, or takes away from it |
| Double-click | Opens it in the side panel: details for an asset or finding, the thread for a hypothesis |
| Right-click | Everything you can do with it, or on the empty canvas at that spot |
| Drag a node | Moves it; a finding keeps the spot you give it |
| Drag from a port | Draws a link; see Lines & links |
With the Pan tool (H), every drag pans and nothing can be picked up by
accident. That’s handy on a crowded board.
Zoom levels
The board changes what it draws as you zoom, so it stays readable at every distance:
| Level | Zoom | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| Full detail | 60% and more | Everything: finding labels, the words along lines, whole hypothesis cards with their tally |
| Shapes and names | 30% to 60% | Assets and findings with bigger names; finding labels and the words along lines are hidden (point at a line to read it); cards show their statement |
| Overview | under 30% | Compact chips with large names; every asset folds its findings into a ring of severity colours; badges are hidden |
The same corner of a board at each level:
Every demo on these pages shows its level in the bottom-left corner. Use the − and + buttons to watch it change.
Fitting and jumping
| Control | Key | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Fit board | ⇧1 | Zooms to show the whole board |
| Zoom to selection | ⇧2 | Zooms to what you selected |
| Mini-map | A small overview of the whole board; drag its frame to jump | |
| Show on board | In panels and search results, flies to the item and makes it pulse briefly |
Search and actions (⌘K)
The search box in the top bar (or ⌘K, Ctrl K on Windows) does three jobs at
once: find things on the board, find things anywhere in your data and
add them, and run actions.
| Scope | Finds |
|---|---|
| All | The best few of each kind, from the board and from your data, plus matching actions |
| Board | Evidence, findings, hypotheses, notes, frames and comments on this board; choose one to fly to it |
| Corpus | Assets and findings anywhere in your data; choose one to add it to the board. Things already on the board are tagged on board |
| Actions | New note, new hypothesis, new frame; open the timeline, leads, case file, evidence table or hypotheses; tidy up; add evidence with filters |
Press Tab to switch scope, ↑ ↓ to move, Enter to open or add, and
Esc to close. If what you need calls for filters, Search ”…” with
filters… opens the Add evidence panel with your words already typed.
Selecting, spotlighting and focusing
Four ways to cut a busy board down to what matters. Only one is active at a time:
| How | What stays lit | |
|---|---|---|
| Selection | Click something, or drag a box | It and everything directly connected to it (frames stay, as context) |
| Spotlight | Click a counter in the top bar: evidence, findings, hypotheses | Everything of that kind |
| Hypothesis focus | Click a hypothesis card | The hypothesis, its stance lines and the evidence they point to |
| Highlight by | View → Highlight by | One source, one detector, one hypothesis, or only highlighted items |
Esc unwinds one step at a time: it cancels a tool, a spotlight, an edit, a
focus or a selection first. When nothing is left on the canvas, it closes the
side panel. Press . to lock a hypothesis focus so that clicks elsewhere leave
it alone.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
V | Select tool |
H, or hold Space | Pan |
N | Note tool |
F | Frame tool |
T | Hypothesis tool |
C | Comment tool |
L | Link tool |
E | Fold or unfold the findings of the selected assets |
⌘K | Search, add and act |
⌘Z | Undo |
⇧⌘Z or ⌘Y | Redo |
⌫ or Delete | Delete the selected notes, frames, comments, hypothesis cards, links and stances (evidence leaves the case only through Remove from case…) |
⌘A | Select everything |
⌘D | Duplicate the selected notes or frames |
⇧1 | Fit the board |
⇧2 | Zoom to the selection |
. | Lock or unlock the hypothesis focus |
Esc | Clear the tool, selection or focus, then close the side panel |
? | Shortcuts and visual key |
On Windows and Linux, read Ctrl for ⌘.
Press ? on the board at any time for the shortcuts and visual key: every
shortcut, and a key to every line, ring and badge. It is also in the More
menu.
Undo and redo
Every change you make on the board is one step you can take back: moving things, adding and removing evidence, links, stances, notes, tidy-up, and more. The Undo button’s tooltip names the step (Undo: Move 3 items). Undo only takes back your own changes, never a teammate’s.