Cards

Cards hold your actual content. This page covers everything you do with a single card. To act on several cards at once, see Working with several cards.

Most card actions are available three ways: with the mouse or touch, in the card’s context menu (right-click, or touch and hold on iPad and iPhone), and from the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts act on the focused card. Click a card to focus it, or move between cards with the arrow keys.

Add a card

Select the + button at the top or bottom of a column.
With a card focused, press N to add a card below it, or Option+N to add one above it.
With a column header focused, N adds a card at the bottom of the column and Option+N at the top.
Choose Add at top, Add above, Add below or Add at bottom from a card’s menu.

Type the text and press Enter. If you click elsewhere, the text you typed is kept as a new card. Press Escape to discard it.

While you’re editing a card, Cmd+↓ creates an empty card below it and Cmd+↑ one above, and starts editing the new card.

Edit a card

To start editing, do one of the following:

Double-click the card. The cursor goes where you clicked.
Focus the card and press Enter for the cursor at the end, or Shift+Enter for the cursor at the start.
Choose Edit text from the card’s menu.

While editing:

Key	Action
`Enter`	Save and stop editing
`Shift`+`Enter`	New line
`Escape`	Stop editing. If you changed something, FlowBoard asks whether to discard it.
`Option`+`↑` / `↓`	Move the current or selected lines up or down
`Shift`+`Option`+`↑` / `↓`	Duplicate the current or selected lines

On iPad and iPhone, a card opens in an edit dialog, unless the view options show it as Raw — edit directly. In the dialog, Return starts a new line. To save and close, select Save, tap beside the dialog, or press Cmd+Return on a hardware keyboard. Close stops editing and asks before discarding changes.

Format text

Cards use Markdown. Type the syntax yourself, or use these shortcuts on selected text:

Key	Result
`Cmd`+`B`	Bold
`Cmd`+`I`	Italic
`Cmd`+`U`	Underline
`Cmd`+`Shift`+`X`	~~Strikethrough~~
`Cmd`+`Shift`+`C`	`Inline code`
`Cmd`+`Shift`+`K`	Link. The selected text becomes the link label.

For more options, select the Edit card button in the editor’s corner, or right-click inside the editor. Format… adds quotes, bullet lists and headings, and FlowBoard commands… adds tags and importance levels or changes the card’s display settings.

Split a card or extract part of it

Press Cmd+K while editing:

With text selected, the selection moves into a new card.
Without a selection, everything after the cursor moves into a new card.

The new card appears below the original and keeps its tags and other properties. You keep editing the original card.

Move a card

Drag it to another position or column.
Within its column: Option+↑ or Option+↓.
To the neighboring column: Option+← or Option+→. The Archive column is skipped.
To Done: press X. The card goes to the board’s Done column, or to the last regular column if the board has none.
From the menu: Move to previous column, Move to next column, Move to…, and the entries for the Done and Archive columns.

To move a card to another board, cut it and paste it there. See Copy, cut and paste cards.

Duplicate a card

Shift+Option+↑ or ↓ places a copy above or below. The copy is tagged #duplicate, so you can find it again.
Shift+Option+← or → places a copy in the previous or next column.
The card menu offers Duplicate to top, Duplicate above, Duplicate below and Duplicate to bottom.

Copy, cut and paste cards

Copy card in the card’s menu copies the card. Cmd+X cuts it: the card is removed until you paste it. If you change your mind, Cmd+Z brings it back.
To paste, open the menu of a card where the copy should go, on any board, and choose a position under Paste cards: at top, above, below or at bottom.
Copy text copies only the card’s text to the system clipboard.

Pressing Cmd+V on a focused card doesn’t paste a card. It starts editing that card and pastes the clipboard into its text.

Archive or delete a card

Press Delete to move the focused card to the Archive column. You can drag it back later.
Press Delete on a card that is already in the Archive to delete it for good.
Press Cmd+Delete to delete a card permanently without archiving it. FlowBoard asks for confirmation first.

Cmd+Z undoes deletions too.

Collapse long cards

To keep the board compact, cards can show only their first lines:

The collapse button in the header collapses or expands every card on the board. The same button in a column header does it for that column only.
Add ::collapse in a card’s menu keeps that card collapsed.

Hold Cmd on a collapsed card to preview its full content. Set how many lines a collapsed card shows under Settings → Appearance → Collapsed card lines.

Preview a card

Cmd-click a card to open it in a larger preview without editing it.

Tags, importance, dates and tints adds metadata to cards.
Working with several cards covers selecting, merging and grouping.