Spatial Intelligence

Desktop and web — feature availability

Grid is available in both the desktop client and web-client. Timeline, Kanban, Spread, Compact, and Declutter are desktop-only.

Spatial Intelligence provides automatic layout operations for the widgets currently visible in your viewport. Use it to arrange scattered content into grids, organise notes into kanban columns, sequence items as a timeline, untangle connected widgets with a force-directed layout, or simply push overlapping items apart.

All layout operations only affect widgets visible in the current viewport. Widgets outside the visible area are not moved.

Accessing the Layout Menu

Spatial Intelligence is available from the finger menu.

1. Use an 8-finger tap on the canvas (or long-press) to open the finger menu.
2. Select Layout from the menu.

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Show: The finger menu open with the Layout option visible.

Open the finger menu and select Layout to access Spatial Intelligence operations.

Grid Layout

Grid arranges all visible widgets into a uniform grid. You can choose how widgets are sorted before placement.

1. From the Layout menu, tap Grid.
2. Select a sort option:
3. Position — Sort by current position on the canvas (reading order: left-to-right, top-to-bottom).
4. Colour — Sort by note background colour.
5. Title — Sort alphabetically by title.
6. Recent — Sort by most recently edited (z-order).

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Show: The Layout → Grid submenu open, showing the four sort options (Position, Colour, Title, Recent).

Choose a sort order for the grid. Widgets are arranged in a uniform grid after sorting.

Force-Directed Layout

Desktop client only.

Force-directed layout treats connectors as springs and widgets as repelling nodes, then runs a physics simulation to spread connected widgets apart while pulling directly connected widgets closer together.

From the Layout menu, tap Spread.

This is useful for untangling dense networks of connected widgets — for example, mind maps or dependency diagrams where relationships have become hard to read.

Note

Force-directed layout requires connectors between widgets to have a visible effect on grouping. Widgets with no connectors are pushed apart evenly.

Timeline Layout

Desktop client only.

Timeline arranges all visible widgets in a single row ordered by their current horizontal position, from left to right.

From the Layout menu, tap Timeline.

Use this to line up a sequence of cards, notes, or images horizontally in order of where they already appear on the canvas.

Kanban Layout

Desktop client only.

Kanban groups visible widgets into columns by note background colour. Each colour becomes its own column. Non-note widgets (images, videos, documents) are grouped by type in additional columns.

From the Layout menu, tap Kanban.

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Show: A canvas after applying Kanban layout — notes grouped into clearly separated colour-coded columns.

Kanban layout groups notes by background colour into separate columns.

Compact

Desktop client only.

Compact pulls all visible widgets toward the centre of the viewport, reducing the overall spread of content. Each tap applies the effect.

From the Layout menu, tap Compact.

Tap multiple times to bring content progressively closer together.

Declutter

Desktop client only.

Declutter resolves overlapping widgets by nudging them apart, with minimum movement. It does not reorder or rearrange widgets — it only separates items that are currently on top of each other.

From the Layout menu, tap Declutter.

Use Declutter when you want to fix overlaps without restructuring the overall layout.