Organize items into columns, rows, and snap to grid.
14:08
Copy & Paste Options
Copy styles, JSON data, and links to views or objects.
16:04
Undo, Redo & Time Machine
Explore board history and recover deleted content.
16:55
Import & Export Data
Paste lists to stickies, import CSV, drag and paste images.
18:35
Topics & AI Sorting
Create and sort topics, including AI-powered grouping.
19:28
Creating Symbols
Convert images, icons, and shapes into custom tokens.
21:35
Images in Stickies
Embed tokens, images, and GIFs directly into sticky notes.
22:54
Using the Voter Tool
Anonymous voting, presets, and voting on various items.
24:17
The Tray Feature
Create reusable objects and dynamic participant trays.
25:48
Mentions & Tags
Assign actions, mention users, add metadata with tags.
28:06
Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
Quick access to zones, stickies, arrows, and layout tools.
29:40
Containers & Object Order
Manage overlapping elements, lock layout, and container behavior.
31:29
Timeline Element
Create roadmaps, track dates, and export timeline data.
33:17
Camera & Navigation Controls
Set start position, zoom, home view, and use navigators.
Transcript
00:00
Hi there, Steve here.
00:01
This video is 100 tips and tricks for using Ludi.
00:04
It's going to be quite information dense and I'm going to go quite quick.
00:07
I hope you enjoy it, hope you find it useful.
00:09
Starting with gestures and fun stuff.
00:11
If there's anything I want you to get out of this video, it's the tab to ping function.
00:16
So when you want to point at something in Ludi and you have a bunch of people on your board, instead of just waving your mouse around, just hover over the item you want to point out and hit tab on the keyboard it drops an arrow and if you hold tab, it draws an area.
00:27
When you're off the screen, other users will see the arrows and they can click on them and it will move them to the area that you're pointing at.
00:33
This is really useful for collaborating.
00:35
when you've got multiple people on a board and you start hitting tab in other applications eventually because it's that useful.
00:43
similarly, if you press 2 on the keyboard or you go down to the gestures menu, you've got the vanishing pen, which allows you to draw more specific stuff, like organic stuff on the board.
00:56
It'll stay for a short amount of time and then it'll fade out.
00:58
If you click again, it'll come back.
01:00
But essentially it's a way of temporarily pointing, kind of like a laser pointer, and drawing around stuff.
01:06
In the similar vein, if you press 3 on your keyboard, you get the confetti tool, everyone's favorite tool.
01:10
Just bluff a little Confetti, celebrate something someone said.
01:13
You can hit that quickly with the number three or it's down here in the dresses menu.
01:18
another quick useful thing that not everyone knows is in Ludi, you can double click to create a sticky note.
01:23
You don't have to have anything selected.
01:25
It will always use the last color you got from the menu.
01:29
and when you're quickly generating ideas, it's usually a lot quicker just to double click rather than going to the drawer pulling a sticky out.
01:36
if you go over to your name on the right or your icon, you can wear a hat.
01:40
you can also press shift B on the, sorry, shift H on the keyboard and it'll put a random hat on.
01:47
and if you go down to the gestures menu, you can actually throw your hat across the board, which isn't really useful other than just being fun.
01:55
and then jukebox last, thing in the fun stuff bit, if you go into the jukebox menu, click the back arrow, scroll down you'll find some credits, but you'll also find a little Snake game which is our homage to the Nokia 3310 version of Snake, which was the best version.
02:12
Feel free to play that to your heart's content.
02:17
Okay.
02:18
Sharing and personalization.
02:19
So you can share a board with anyone by the link.
02:21
Most people know that, if you open the board up, this not only lets people join the board, without being allowed in, without being approved, but it also makes the board open to anyone.
02:31
So if you want to share the board with someone publicly or who's not in your account, you can do that and it will give you a read only view.
02:37
In addition, you can invite people by email.
02:42
if they are not a member.
02:44
It will allow you to either invite them as a member or a guest, depending on your plan setup.
02:49
this is also a really useful way of getting someone to a board.
02:51
It will auto create them an account or create them a temporary account so they don't have to register.
02:56
So it's a really fast way.
02:57
If you've got someone externally you want to get in, use this function.
03:01
if you want to change your sticky font so every user gets assigned a different font so that your sticky notes look unique and look organic.
03:11
if you don't like your font, you can change it by going to preferences and personalization.
03:19
And then I'm going to change this to Walter Turncoat.
03:22
And down here I can change my color.
03:23
So I'm currently a kind of purple color.
03:25
I'm going to change it to a ready purple color.
03:29
you'll see my font is updated and my vanishing pen color has changed to that color red.
03:35
And when I'm moving around the screen I can't show you, but other users will see a ring around my user, that's that color as well.
03:43
Okay, command palette.
03:45
So you can access the command palette by pressing Ctrl space or Command K and you get access to a bunch of commands here.
03:52
we're going to come back to this later on but it allows you to do stuff like if you want to quickly create a spinner, for example, you can just type spinner, hit enter, I want four segments in it and it'll make me a spinner and pop it on the board.
04:03
there's also some hidden functions in here that are kind of used for areas of the tool, but you can invoke them.
04:09
So for example, if you've got countdown here and you can say if you want to start an activity off and then the message that you wrote there will be displayed.
04:21
you can also send messages to each other with the alert.
04:24
So, this is kind of probably not something I should be showing off, but here you go.
04:29
A little fun thing for that.
04:30
You can do that.
04:31
and we'll come back to this later because there's a bunch of things that you can do in here that are actually useful.
04:36
okay, so stickies are fixed size.
04:38
NAS is resizing stuff.
04:40
you can't resize stickies beyond these two sizes.
04:43
some people kind of ask us why this is, but we made a deliberate design decision, unlike a lot of other tools, to keep our stickies a fixed size.
04:50
And that's because it creates an anchor for you to understand how big to create a box.
04:55
So if you're laying out, a workshop and your stickies can be any arbitrary size, you can end up with situations where you create the workshop to the wrong size ratio.
05:05
whereas having an anchor and an understanding of how big something is in an infinitely zoomable canvas we think is useful.
05:12
Some other elements can be resized.
05:13
So like task cards can actually be resized to any dimension, and index cards can be resized, vertically, because we kind of feel like they shouldn't really be infinitely wide.
05:24
shapes and things like that can obviously be resized.
05:26
There's some useful functions you should know when you're resizing.
05:28
So if you take this shape and you hold alt, it will.
05:31
If I just turn alt on and off, you'll see what it does.
05:33
It makes it mirror the resize in both directions.
05:37
If you hold shift, it will fix the aspect ratio so that the box always stays the same asset ratio, and you can actually combine those together to, keep your box mirrored and, the same aspect ratio.
05:50
Going back to the command menu, there's a bunch of commands in here that you can use.
05:55
So if you hit control space and go resize, sorry, size.
05:58
you can, set your size or you can set width, probably easier width.
06:04
and we can say, we can either maybe say these are 50% and that'll half their size, or we can say set them to 300 and it will set them to 300.
06:14
That works with any amount selected.
06:16
You've also got size functions which do the same.
06:18
and you've got the width one and then you've also got a set to parent.
06:23
So if I make this this big and bring this to the front and then say fit, to width, it will essentially move this to the edges of the pet container.
06:38
And then you can do shrink, say 10, and it will shrink that item by 10 units.
06:45
That's useful sometimes if you want to create like these kind of boxes in boxes layouts.
06:50
And they're available in the command menu.
06:53
Okay, moving on to moving things.
06:56
If, you select an object and you hit the arrows on the keyboard, it'll move the selection by default, 10 units.
07:01
If you hold shift, it will jump by 100 units.
07:04
If you hold control, it will jump by one unit.
07:07
So that's kind of precise movement.
07:08
This is for moving things quickly.
07:10
And then you've also got control shift arrow, which will move by the bounding box.
07:15
So you can see the bounding box here, the height.
07:16
If I put my mouse cursor there, you can see how much that's moving by.
07:19
And if I go in this direction also by that amount.
07:24
if you want to clone something quickly, you can click on the elements and click press alt on the keyboard and then a direction.
07:32
And that will take copies of those elements in the direction that you are going in.
07:36
So I'll just undo those.
07:37
And it will obviously clone any objects inside it as well.
07:41
So if I did it with this whole zone, that would actually work.
07:44
and then you can also hold alt on the keyboard and drag.
07:47
And this will create copies as well.
07:49
Doesn't matter what the object is.
07:53
Okay, selecting and aligning.
07:56
So when you're writing in a sticky note, you can press the tab key.
08:01
so like, I know hello Tab will create a new sticky note to the right and I can write something else in there.
08:09
And then I can press tab again and I can keep doing that.
08:12
When I have my carrot inside, it's inside a sticky note or any other object that's like a card or anything.
08:17
And, I press the arrow keys.
08:19
If there's nothing in the element, if there is something, if there is some text in there, obviously it'll move around like that.
08:24
But if it's empty, it actually allows you to move it with the same rules as before.
08:28
So holding shift jumps it.
08:30
otherwise it defaults by 10.
08:33
And the reason that's useful is because you can shunt that to the right a little bit, write another thing, and then hit tab.
08:38
And the tab function will remember the gap.
08:41
And it allows you to create kind of matrix like layout things like this.
08:46
same kind of function, but going down.
08:49
If you press Ctrl, enter just the same thing.
08:51
And then if you move it to the right a little bit and do it again, it will actually remember the vector that it was created on.
08:57
So you can create these kind of weird angles.
09:00
Most of the time you want to just go down or left or right.
09:03
But that's a really useful function if you want to write a load of stuff really quickly.
09:05
You don't have to kind of get a tool, double click, etc.
09:09
You just press tab.
09:11
right.
09:12
Let me just make a list of stuff.
09:14
So selecting things, obviously you can select but using the shift key to do a multi selection.
09:21
But another thing you can do is if you hold Shift and double click on an element, it will select all of the other elements of that type inside the container that it's in.
09:32
So this selects these ones.
09:33
If I triple click, it'll select everything of that type on the screen.
09:38
You can also do this by going select others on the keyboard.
09:40
That defaults to the triple click version.
09:43
but that's kind of useful for if you want to just quickly double click and get stuff.
09:47
It's easier than doing this.
09:48
And also only selects that type.
09:50
So if you've got like a bunch of tokens in here, for example, and you did this, that would select the token.
09:55
Whereas double clicking with Shift will just select that object type.
10:00
something else you can do is if you have a whole bunch of things that you want to kind of sort, and sort manually.
10:07
Let's say I wanted to pick all the things with a number in here.
10:12
If I wanted to select them, obviously I'd get everything and then have to shift and unselect.
10:16
What you can do is pick one of them up and then right click as you move the mouse over another item and that will add to the selection.
10:23
This is called collecting.
10:24
And you can collect things up and then you can use for example the sort function here.
10:30
Or you could use the alignment functions like align to columns, which put it into a column.
10:35
I'll show you this later on.
10:36
But that's a really useful way of just being able to pick stuff up.
10:39
Or you can pop them into a topic and like organize things that way.
10:46
This is kind of an unusual function.
10:47
Not many tools have this, but it is really useful.
10:51
oops, I shouldn't have deleted all those.
10:52
Let me bring them back.
10:54
So let's say I have collected a load of these up.
10:57
One thing I can do as well is use the flow layout.
11:00
So if I hit U on the keyboard or I go down to the flow layout button, I'm just going to hit U.
11:04
It brings this flow layout configuration up.
11:08
Your selection net turns into a green box.
11:11
If I hold alt and just make it a little bigger.
11:13
You can kind of see what this is doing.
11:14
It's going to lay out these items in a flow configuration, left to right.
11:18
Because it's column mode, sorry, row mode.
11:20
Or if I said it's column, it's going to go down.
11:22
and then I can choose whether they're centered, I can choose whether they're aligned or justified like this.
11:28
so most of the time you probably want to just do rows or columns.
11:31
but this is useful if you've got like a load of stuff you want to sort into a particular shape, like into a zone.
11:37
if you just tap U on the keyboard and it will arrange it.
11:39
And you can also increase the gap size.
11:41
You have to increase that as well.
11:42
And you can sort as well.
11:44
I'll, show you sorting later.
11:45
I haven't actually got anything to sort here, but the sort function works there.
11:48
I need them again, sorry.
11:50
All right.
11:52
further alignment functions.
11:55
If you go to arrange, you've got a whole bunch here that you are kind of common to design tools.
12:00
But, align left will stick everything onto the left axis and then, align Y will align everything.
12:09
Align left will align to the left side.
12:11
Align Y will align to the Y axis.
12:13
These are a little bit weird to use sometimes.
12:15
So we've added these extra functions here.
12:16
Align columns.
12:17
And what this will do is it will.
12:19
If you've got a bunch of stuff like this that's kind of in column layout, but not really.
12:23
It will.
12:24
The tool will scan down.
12:26
Just going to use the vanishing pen here or create scan lines, connecting elements that are, overlapping vertically with their central position over the bounding box and basically sort them into what looks like a natural kind of column system.
12:39
So if I go align columns, you see they've just been put into.
12:44
Let me put numbers in these so they're easy to spot.
12:45
If we mess all these up, and I can align those columns.
12:49
You can also press Shift, three on your keyboard.
12:53
We'll put them into columns and if you keep tapping it, it will increase the amount of gap.
12:58
the column gap is always multiple of the, row gap.
13:02
That works for columns and rows.
13:05
you can also just.
13:06
If you've got.
13:06
If you want everything in a big line, you can hit Shift one on your keyboard and it puts it into a column.
13:11
Two on your keyboard will put them into, a row.
13:15
If you then want to sort them and hit U on the keyboard to bring this up, because they're in a perfect box here.
13:19
It should just.
13:20
If I go text.
13:21
Oh, it's put a gap on there that sorted them into alphabetical order for you.
13:25
So that's kind of cool.
13:27
again, these are all available in the command palette and then you have control over them in there.
13:31
So, for example, align columns.
13:33
I can actually set the item gap.
13:34
So if I want the item gap to be 10, but I want the column gap to be 100.
13:38
it's obviously columns of one here because of the way I had it laid out.
13:41
But you can see what that's done there.
13:44
final thing is, you can call the function of snap to grid.
13:50
This will just kind of nudge everything so that it's aligned properly onto the 10 by 10 grid that is available in the background if you've got it turned on.
13:59
so, yeah, a lot in this section.
14:02
These are really useful if you want to kind of make your boards look a bit neater.
14:06
Okay, copy paste.
14:08
you can obviously copy stuff with Control C and then Control V, it creates a copy.
14:13
you can copy style.
14:15
So if you've got like a green box or a dash one like this, and you want to make this one look the same, you shift C and then Shift V or Control V will copy and paste that style of this element, onto the other one.
14:28
You can get to that in the Copy style button as well.
14:31
So if I want to make this sticky note red, I'll just click this one.
14:34
Control C, sorry, Shift C, shift or Control V.
14:39
And the style is copied.
14:42
we can copy JSON.
14:44
So if you go to copy and the copy JSON or control J that will copy to the clipboard the data that represents this card.
14:54
so if I go in here and paste it, you'll see, you've got a whole bunch of stuff here.
14:58
You've got the tags, the color, you've got the content, you've got the day it was created, the height and the title, the user ID of the person that did it.
15:06
and this is useful if you want to give a load of information to a large language model to do some kind of, I don't know, like summarization or anything like that.
15:14
rather than relying on us to have had it in the tool, just go copy JSON and you can do whatever you want with that data.
15:21
You can write a script that does it, something with it.
15:23
You could, whatever.
15:24
It's all open for you to use.
15:27
further copy functions.
15:29
We've got copy link to view, so if you right click on the keyboard Sorry, Right click with the mouse on the back end on the backboard with no selection.
15:35
you got copy link to view here.
15:37
And that will, create a link that basically links to this exact spot on the board when you come back to it.
15:45
and then the same with an object.
15:47
If you right click on a single object and go copy link to object, paste that in here, it'll bring us to this object and it'll drop a little arrow on it to show you that this is what it was actually linked to.
15:56
So if you want to give someone a link to a particular area of a board, that's how, how you can do that.
16:02
Okay, undo, redo.
16:04
So most of you will know this already, but you can undo anything with, whoops.
16:10
You can undo stuff with undo, and redo.
16:12
What you may not know is Time, machine enables you to see the whole history of the board.
16:19
depending on how big the board is, it can be a little slow.
16:22
There we go.
16:24
It's loaded.
16:24
Essentially all of the history of me making this board.
16:27
So if I just skim through it, if I zoom out, you can see it being built slowly over time.
16:31
So as I was preparing this presentation, this is all the stuff I added and then, messing around.
16:37
You can actually see me literally doing that stuff earlier with the alignment there.
16:40
If you want to get any of this out, if you just select it, click the copy button.
16:44
It will allow you to pick out of the time machine stuff that you may have deleted or screwed up somehow.
16:49
So everything is always available.
16:53
Okay, import and export.
16:54
you can copy stickies with Control C and then paste them into kind of a notepad tool and it will, give them you as these.
17:05
I remember these have all got new lines in for some reason, which is why that's happened.
17:10
If they don't have new lines in and you press Control C, you'll get them in a list, which is useful if you just want to paste something into Slack or into some kind of, wiki software.
17:19
and then similarly, if you copy a list and paste it in, you'll get stickies.
17:25
So any simple list of strings that's broken up by new lines will get turned into stickies if you paste it into the tool, which again is useful sometimes for getting stuff like I know, Jira information in or whatever.
17:37
you can also import CSV.
17:39
So I'm going to drop this CSV file onto the board.
17:41
You get a bunch of different options here.
17:42
This is some data that represents, to do tasks.
17:46
So I've got summary, and a type.
17:47
So I'm just going to map the content of the sticky to the summary and then I'm going to group it by the type which will create me a bunch of topics with the data imported in.
18:00
Again, useful if you've got information that you want to get into the tool and work with.
18:05
you can drag images from another window.
18:10
I actually haven't got one prepped, but here we go.
18:12
Drag this around the picture of a Dyson and it will pop in.
18:15
You can also paste an image file from your computer.
18:17
I haven't actually got one.
18:18
Maybe this will work.
18:19
No, I haven't got one.
18:21
but that's another way of getting an image in.
18:23
You can drag a file in from your desktop or you can drop and paste an image file in if you want to import an image into the tool without going to the insert image function.
18:33
Okay, topics, a little shortcut that you may not know about.
18:36
If you click this button here, it puts all of these elements into a topic for you and then you can of label it.
18:43
Topics, can be sorted.
18:45
So if you want to sort by alphabetical, it will kind of tidy the topic up and sort it that way.
18:50
Or if you want to sort by votes, you can do that as well.
18:52
if you click it again it will sort in the opposite order.
18:55
So you can kind of sort descending or ascending.
18:58
So these have got votes on obviously and they're sorted that way.
19:01
another function that's available or will be available very shortly is the AI sort.
19:05
So if you select a bunch of things and go sort into topics, you'll get a bunch of topics that are like this is obviously very simple example but it will group them based on what the large language model thinks is an appropriate subject for that.
19:21
So these are all food types, these are all transportation types.
19:26
moving on to symbols.
19:28
So symbols are kind of Most content objects in LUDI are like, they don't snap to the grid and they don't get locked when you lock layout mode.
19:39
When you lock layout, they also come to the front by default.
19:43
Symbols, are a way of converting images and things like that into layout objects.
19:46
This is useful for scenarios where you want to give a piece of apparatus to your team.
19:54
When you're running a workshop that's kind of like free form and maybe you want to create voting tokens or you want to create something custom that's useful for your workshop.
20:00
For example, we've got a Thanksgiving template where You've got slices of pie and you can give the pie to a person as a way of kudos at the end of a meeting.
20:08
And that's implemented using tokens.
20:10
So this is a token here.
20:11
It's a fish that I just grabbed off Pixabay.
20:14
And you can tell it's a token because when you hover over it, it gives you a outline showing you that it's clickable and selectable.
20:19
You can create tokens from images, even gifs, by right clicking on them, going convert to simple.
20:25
Did I say if I said token?
20:27
I meant simple.
20:28
so this is a symbol now this is an image.
20:30
Currently it's resizable.
20:31
But if I right click and go convert to symbol, it becomes a symbol that is sort like auto comes to the front, and isn't lockable.
20:42
You can't resize it.
20:43
So it's kind of a, it's now like kind of a custom token.
20:47
Basically.
20:47
You can create symbols out of icons as well.
20:51
So if I go into the icon thing, just take this one, right click convert to symbol, that becomes a kind of like a token.
21:00
and you can also, if you want to just make ones that maybe you want to make some that I know we want to do like no and yes.
21:14
Maybe you want a whole bunch of these.
21:16
You could convert them to symbols and these shapes are now symbols as well.
21:20
So if you want to give people a bunch of ways of voting on something known.
21:25
Yes, it's a bit weird example I guess.
21:26
But yeah, that's how you create symbols.
21:29
They're pretty useful if, you're doing kind of complicated workshops and you'll be seeing more of them I think as we build out templates that are a bit more interesting, images and stickies.
21:39
So kind of unknown feature is, or not super documented feature is if you drag a token on.
21:44
So you can drag your face up here or you can, I have a lot of team people in this project.
21:50
let's get some emotes.
21:51
So this one, the beer one.
21:54
let's take Jamie as well.
22:00
If you have an empty sticky note and you drop a token into it, the token contents will go into the sticky.
22:07
So that works for those.
22:09
I'll undo those.
22:10
If you drop an image into an empty sticky, the image goes into the sticky as well or a gif.
22:16
So you can kind of make a rickroll sticky if you want.
22:19
that's kind of all I've got to say about that.
22:24
It's Just something you can do.
22:26
it's useful sometimes if you want to do like, I don't know, storyboarding and you want the storyboard items to not be kind of really, big.
22:33
Just drop the images into stickies and they become selectable.
22:38
Or if you've got kind of some kind of layout where you want to put people's names at the top, you could just grab their token and pop them into a sticky note and it creates a kind of slightly bigger picture of them that's really easy to make.
22:52
Okay, so voter, you can access the voter from the gadgets drawer here.
22:56
I'm just going to show you a few things that are useful.
22:59
first of all, voters are anonymous.
23:01
So if you haven't seen this element before, you can kind of vote on it.
23:06
Vote on whatever you've put in here.
23:07
If this video is good and I should have selected yes, click, play a sound effect and it'll show you the vote results.
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when users make a vote, their cursor is hidden so you can't actually see who's voting on what.
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So it is kind of anonymous.
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Vote.
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voters have a bunch of presets so you can set them to your team members.
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you can set them to t shirt sizes for example.
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It'll change up here if you want to modify these.
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Like, I want to make this one like black for some reason I can, can another thing you can do is just going to make a empty, voter, using command palette.
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So voter, you can also drag board objects in.
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So if you wanted to use these for a set of voting items, you can just drop them in there and they'll become votable.
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you can also add gifs or any images.
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so I don't know if you want to do an icebreaker which is like, which is your favorite gif or how are you feeling this week?
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And there's like a lot of funny gifs on there.
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You can do that this way and it works just the same.
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Users can vote on them that way and it should scale reasonably well to however you set the voter up.
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Okay, tray.
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So this isn't currently available in here, but it will be very soon.
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the tray is a way of creating objects that you might reuse over and over again and a sort of infinite resource.
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So this is an example of sticky notes.
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I can just keep dragging off this tray any number of sticky notes I need.
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and the same with these tokens, you can currently create a Tray by going create tray in the command palette and it'll give you an empty one.
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and it's by default in edit mode.
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You can then add anything you like into it and it includes like, writing, drawing stuff on stickies or adding a tag to them.
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These will be replicated inside the tray.
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So when you click done editing, you've now got tagged stickies or stickies with a face on coming out.
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So if you have like a particular setup you want to create, it's really useful.
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if you click on a tray and go to the presets, you can set it to participants.
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that's useful.
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It will otherwise obviously only me on this board right now.
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But if there was more people, they'd show up here.
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And this dynamically adds as people join.
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So, in some exercises you have like drag your face onto something to vote on it.
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That's really useful.
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Just create a tray.
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there's also a bunch of presets here for like health check or just general sticky one.
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And you can always edit the items and remove something by just dragging it off or popping something on.
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Actually you can't put multiple objects.
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You can only have the same element.
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So stickies only, for example, or tokens only.
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yeah, that is the tray moving on to mentions and tags.
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So when you are writing a sticky note and you hit the symbol, this allows you to assign that sticky as an action to somebody.
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or if you are wanting to mention someone.
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So if I'd say like hello Jamie.
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Jamie has three users for some reason.
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Go for this one.
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Does our test account.
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So excuse me for that.
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that doesn't mention, that's probably common knowledge.
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What you may not know is you can also do tags from here.
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So let's go I don't know idea one and we'll do hashtag.
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it'll show you the existing tags on your board.
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You can also write a new one.
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So, I'm gonna say cost equals five.
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That creates a tag with a value.
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tags can have values under the.
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See this is the name of the tag and this is the value.
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If it has a value, it will show up here.
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If a tag doesn't have a value.
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So no, let's say priority.
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It'll just put the text in it.
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So this is a tag without value and this is the tag with a value.
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Tags of values are useful if you want to do stuff like add metadata.
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So for example, you're making a bunch, of stickies about something.
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And let's say idea two.
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And we want to say this cost.
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The cost of this idea would be 10.
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it allows you to essentially assign a key and a value to a sticky.
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And then if you go to the export function and go to add, you'll see your tags show up here.
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So you can set cost.
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Let's just get rid of these, so I can export my ideas and their costs out of the tool if I want to.
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you can mass equip or mass apply a tag by clicking on the tag and going to the equip function.
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Then just hold shift and essentially draw over an area and it will apply that tag to every other element.
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Or you can click on.
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You can just click on a single one if you want.
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you can also do stuff with tags in the command palette.
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So you can clear tags or you can delete a tag as well.
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Clear will actually wipe them off everything.
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delete.
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Will delete them off.
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Just that one.
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okay, shortcuts.
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I've used a bunch of shortcuts already, like the shift one and the gestures ones.
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If you want to see all the shortcuts available, they're in this button here.
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I've covered a lot of these already.
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I'll just highlight the ones that I use the most.
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Probably zone, just pressing Z on the keyboard to make a zone, and then I might just alt right to create a couple of clones of it.
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you can also use the flow layout with these.
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So if you want to create a zone layout that's like certain gap or whatever, that's really useful.
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Flowlight works with any element.
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In fact, if you put shapes in it, so I press S on the keyboard then to get the shape tool, and then just put these like this and I can't be bothered to line them up.
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If I just hit U, just move them, it'll then as long as I create the correct constraints with the box, it'll put them into a completely even, symmetrical layout for me.
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and then again you've got N on the keyboard or create your sticky note.
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but to be honest, double clicking is probably quicker.
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And then if you press A, you get the arrow so you can draw arrows really quickly like that.
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If you want to do like a flowchart, a, little tip that I haven't got in here is if you click on a sticky that's got arrows, more than one arrow connected to it, you can click connect a bunch or connect a spread and it will tidy up the connectors so they're like bunched together or they're spread apart.
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all elements support that.
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Some don't actually show at the moment.
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when you click on them, you can obviously go up here and go connector, spread, connect a bunch and it will just tidy them up on everything.
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Another useful command palette thing there.
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Okay, containers in order.
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So if you have a bunch of elements overlapping like this, you can right click and go order and then either use the shortcuts or just click the button.
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So send to back.
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We'll send that one to the back.
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just using the shortcuts here.
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So this is how you can reorder stuff.
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some things.
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So like shapes are considered to be layout objects.
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So if you right click on the board and click lock layout, they'll get locked, but stickies won't.
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I'm just going to lock everything there.
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but the objects that don't lock often will come to the front when you pick them up.
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Again, this is something we do kind of different to other tools.
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A lot of other tools kind of allow you to, or require you to manually order stuff.
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But for us it feels like why would you ever want these things not to just be at the front when you pick them up?
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So that's why they do that.
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some objects like shapes can be set to container or container off.
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I think shapes are default to containeron.
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what this does is makes the.
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So for example, this zone is a container.
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If I move the zone, everything that's inside it will move with it because it's inside it.
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If I pop this sticky into this shape and move this shape, the shape will.
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Moving the shape will cause the sticky to move as well.
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If I turn off this container flag, it will not move the elements underneath.
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generally you probably won't need to touch that.
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But sometimes if you want to create a layout where there's like a background, and you have like some funny layering stuff going on, it's sometimes better just to turn that off.
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Makes things behave a little bit less confusingly sometimes.
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So that's why it's there.
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that's it for ordering.
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timeline.
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So this is the timeline element.
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It's quite small.
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I'll just move it down here, make it a bit bigger.
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so the timeline is a frame type.
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that automatically puts for you at the top a date timeline.
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You can toggle off things like the quarters.
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You, can add a date line on to show the current date.
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You can, set the timeline dimensions by either manually doing like that, or you can say 12 by 6, which will create subsections there.
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I'm going to say 6 by 6, actually.
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And then I will say the start date is.
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Let's say It's Q, 1, Q2, planning.
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So we'll set that there.
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So you've got these months.
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These are roadmap cards up here, which are available from this tool.
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this area, the toolbar.
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Once you drop a roadmap card onto one of these timeline frames, they start showing dates.
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so you can see here, I've got the date where the item is ending and then the date where it's.
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Sorry, the day where it's starting.
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The day where it's ending.
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you can also, if you come back to a roadmap later and realize that you need to revise it, you can drag this little gray thing here and it creates either an overage or an underage to say, actually this is probably going to be delivered on the 15th instead of the 1st of May.
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and this one is going to be late.
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So you can do like that.
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any of this information.
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If you write.
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If you click on the timeline go export, the roadmap cards will all have the date on.
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So, the punctuality is there on time, late, early.
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you've got the start date, the end date, the original date.
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if there was any text in here, so maybe some actual text, this will all show up as well in the export.
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Okay, camera controls.
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so you can set the start position of the board by going to the menu at the top, including set start position.
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This will set the current view, so that anyone joining the board will get put in this same spot as you.
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if you want to reset the zoom, you can press Ctrl 0.
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you can press Ctrl H to go home, which takes you to the.
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Takes, you to the home position, which is the start position of the board, which is what was happening there.
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If I go over here and set the home position to be, here, press Control H, it'll take me here.
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if you don't have a home position set, it will take you to the very center of the board, which is zero, zero coordinate, which usually is where everything starts.
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So, that's the default.
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And then if you press Control 1, it will zoom out to all the content up here.
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So you can see that we're nearly finished with this video.
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last couple of things.
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You've got a navigator down here that can, show you where you are and allow you to quickly move around.
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And you've got a frame browser as well.
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So if you've created frames on the board, you can jump to the timeline down here that I just made, or you can jump to frame two or frame one, which are just two frames I put there, to show everything.
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And that's it.
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That sticky shouldn't be there.
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All right, that's the end of 100, or approximately 100, because I think there's actually a few more than that.
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