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PDFs, videos & other files

The canvas happily holds the rest of your project too: PDFs, videos, Office documents, plain text, archives — as tidy file cards that open, preview and travel with their folder.

More in Elements & Tools
  1. Notes
  2. Text
  3. Folders
  4. Images
  5. To-do lists
  6. Documents
  7. Links & rich previews
  8. Shapes
  9. Arrows & connectors
  10. Drawing & Apple Pencil
  11. PDFs, videos & files

Getting files in

Drag & drop them onto the canvas — one or many. Or place them into a board’s folder on disk and adopt them from the New Items pool. Each file becomes a card with an icon, its name and its type.

What each type does

TypeOn double-click
PDFOpens in a new tab (browser) or the built-in viewer (iPhone/iPad/Mac app).
Video (MP4, MOV, WebM…)Plays full-screen; the card shows an auto-generated poster frame with a play button and the duration.
Word (.docx)In-app text preview; “Open in app” hands it to Word & co.
Excel (.xlsx/.xls)In-app sheet preview, tab by tab.
Text (.txt)In-app preview.
ZIP & everything elseDownload / open with the system.
Markdown (.md)Becomes a real, editable document — not just an attachment.

The right-click menu offers Open, Preview and Download for file cards; on iPhone/iPad, files open in the system viewer (QuickLook), so anything iOS can display, visualOS can display.

Files live with their folder

With a connected folder, each file is stored in the on-disk folder of the board it’s on — move the card into another folder in the app, and the file moves on disk too. Your project folder on disk is genuinely complete: layout, notes, documents and files.

Videos with captions

Videos take captions like images do — select the video and add one via the floating bar. Handy for “final cut v3, client approved”.

Didn’t find what you need?

Tell us what’s missing — feature ideas and bug reports land directly on our roadmap. Or just open the canvas and poke around; you can’t break anything.