Whiteboard

A whiteboard room is an infinite canvas the whole team draws on at the same time. It's built for the messy, visual stages of work — brainstorms, journey maps, architecture sketches — and because it lives in your space, Tuesday's workshop board sits one click from the kanban board and chat that follow from it.

Create a whiteboard room

Click + in your space's sidebar and choose the whiteboard room type. Set the room's visibility when you create it — everyone in the space, or only certain people — so a private working session and an open team canvas can coexist.

Work the canvas

The canvas has no edges. Zoom out to see the whole picture, zoom in to work on one corner, and let the board grow with the conversation. Your main tools:

• Sticky notes for capturing ideas quickly — the raw material of a brainstorm.
• Shapes and connectors for adding structure once patterns start to emerge.
• Freehand pen for the times you just need to draw the thing: sketch a flow, circle a problem, annotate what's already there.
• Frames for grouping sections of the board, so agenda items, exercises, and outcomes stay organized on a single sprawling canvas — and the session still reads as a story afterwards.

Run a live session

The board is real-time multiplayer: everyone works on the same canvas simultaneously, and each person's changes appear for the others as they happen. A remote workshop feels like standing at the same wall — people add stickies in parallel during a brainstorm rather than dictating to one person holding the marker.

A rhythm that works well for workshops: open with a frame per exercise, let everyone add stickies at once, then cluster them with shapes and connectors while the group discusses.

Start from a template

You don't have to face a blank void. Eleven templates lay out common formats — mind map, SWOT, customer journey, story map, and more — so the structure is ready and the team only has to fill it in. Pick a template when you create the board or when you want a running start on a session.

Tips

• Use frames early. A board that grows without them is still useful during the session but hard to read a week later.
• Keep the workshop board after the session. Because it's a room in the space, it doubles as the record of what was decided — no photo of the wall required.
• Pair a story-mapping board with the kanban room in the same space, so the map and the cards it produced stay next to each other.
• Zoom out periodically during group work; it's the fastest way to spot which area of the board needs attention.

FAQ

Can several people draw at once? Yes. The canvas is multiplayer and real-time — it's designed for live group sessions as much as solo thinking.

Do we run out of space? No. The canvas is infinite; zoom and pan instead of starting a second board.

What belongs on a whiteboard versus a docs room? Whiteboard is for spatial, visual thinking — stickies, diagrams, sketches. Once the thinking settles into prose or a spec, write it up in a docs or wiki room in the same space.

Do we still need a separate whiteboard app? For most teams, no. The board lives with the same people, permissions, and search as the rest of the work, which is exactly what a standalone canvas app can't offer.