Canvas & Navigation
Moving around: pan & zoom
The canvas is endless, so getting around must be effortless. It is — with whatever input you have in hand.
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Panning (moving the view)
- Trackpad: two-finger scroll in any direction.
- Mouse: scroll wheel (vertical), or hold Space and drag — the classic hand tool. Dragging with the middle or right mouse button pans too.
- Touch: drag with one finger on empty canvas; two fingers pan as well (combined with pinch).
Zooming
- Cmd/Ctrl + scroll wheel — zooms toward your cursor, so what you point at stays put.
- Trackpad pinch or touch pinch.
- Buttons bottom-right: −, percentage (click to reset to 100%), +.
The range runs from 4% (an entire project as a map) to 600% (one word, huge). Zoom speed adapts to how fast you flick.
Two indispensable shortcuts
- Shift+1 — Fit all: smoothly frames everything on the current canvas. Lost? Press this.
- Cmd/Ctrl+0 — back to 100%.
Where you left off
Each folder remembers its own camera position — leave a folder zoomed into the top-left corner, and that’s where you’ll be when you return. And don’t worry: panning around never counts as a “change” to your data, so sightseeing on one device won’t trigger sync work on another.
Think in altitude
Zoomed out = planning; zoomed in = working. Structure your canvases so headlines are readable from “high up” — big text elements work beautifully as landmarks.