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Whiteboard

The Whiteboard feature provides a collaborative visual workspace where you and your team can sketch ideas, create diagrams, and brainstorm — with AI assistance available on demand.

Accessing Whiteboards

Click Home → Whiteboard in the top navigation.

Creating a Whiteboard

1. Click New Whiteboard
2. Give it a name
3. Begin adding content — shapes, text, connectors, and freehand drawing

Collaborating on a Whiteboard

Whiteboards support multiple participants. To invite someone to a whiteboard:

1. Open the whiteboard
2. Click Invite Participants
3. Enter the user's name or email address

All participants can view and edit the whiteboard in real time. Changes are visible to everyone immediately.

Finding Things on a Board

Press Ctrl+F (or ⌘F), or click the search button in the toolbar, to search the board's shapes. The browser's own find can't see shapes that are scrolled or zoomed out of view, so the whiteboard uses its own search:

• As you type, everything that doesn't match fades back. Every match gets a dashed outline, and the current match gets a solid amber outline. Each time the current match changes, a ring closes in on it.
• Enter or F3 goes to the next match, and Shift+Enter or Shift+F3 goes back. Matches are visited top to bottom, then left to right. The view moves to centre each one, clear of any side panel that's open. It zooms in when the shape's text would be too small to read and zooms out when the shape is too big to fit.
• Search covers a shape's text, its link and the name of any coding session attached to it. When the match is in a link or a coding session, the counter says so.
• Esc closes the search and leaves the found shape selected, ready to edit. The × button closes the search without selecting anything.
• Matches stay up to date while other people, or the agent, change the board.

Tables

Choose the Table tool (T) and click the board to place a 3 × 3 table. The first column heading opens for typing straight away. A table has a row of column headings, the body rows below it and an optional title band across the top.

• Edit a cell: double-click any heading, cell or the title. Right-click a table and choose Add title to give it one.
• Tab moves to the next cell and Shift+Tab to the previous one, wrapping from the end of one row to the start of the next. Tab out of the last cell to add a new row.
• Enter moves to the cell below. On the bottom row it finishes editing. Shift+Enter puts a line break inside the cell.
• Arrow keys move the caret through the text and step into the next cell when it reaches the edge: left at the start, right at the end, up on the first line, down on the last. When you arrive in a cell with Tab or Enter, its text is selected and the arrows move between cells at once, as in a spreadsheet.
• Esc discards the change to the current cell and stops editing. Clicking another cell of the same table moves there. Clicking anywhere else saves and stops.
• Adding rows and columns: select a table and use the + beside the heading row to add a column, or the + below the bottom-left corner to add a row. Right-click a cell for Insert row above/below, Insert column left/right, Delete row and Delete column. The table grows or shrinks so the other cells keep their size.

Find (Ctrl+F) searches table headings and cells, and the agent can read a table's contents.

Diagram Support

Whiteboards support Mermaid diagrams — a text-based diagramming language that you can write directly or ask the agent to generate for you. For example, ask the agent:

"Draw a flowchart for our user registration process"

The agent will produce Mermaid syntax that renders as a diagram in the whiteboard or in the chat view.

Fork, Import & Export

Whiteboards support several ways to reuse and share content:

• Fork – create an independent copy of a whiteboard that you can modify without affecting the original. Useful for exploring alternative designs or branching a shared diagram.
• Save – download a whiteboard as an SVG file. It opens as an ordinary picture of the board, and it also carries everything needed to rebuild the board exactly: every shape, connector and drawing, plus the board's shape toolbox. Use the download button on a whiteboard's tile in the list to save it without opening it, or Export → SVG (save) on an open board.
• Export – an open board can also be exported as a JPEG or PDF. These are pictures only and can't be loaded back.
• Load – click Load in the whiteboard list and choose a saved SVG to recreate the board as a new whiteboard.

Managing Whiteboards

• Rename – click the whiteboard title to edit it
• Delete – use the ⋮ menu → Delete
• Duplicate – create a copy of an existing whiteboard as a starting point

Use Cases

• Architecture diagrams – sketch system designs and have the agent review or suggest improvements
• Meeting facilitation – capture ideas and structure discussions visually
• Mind mapping – explore topic relationships collaboratively
• Process flows – document business processes with flowcharts