Answer formats

The AI picks the shape from the question, so you rarely have to say. Asking for “a deck”, “a diagram” or “on a map” makes it certain. Each sheet shows its format next to its title.

Document

The default for a question whose answer is words: an explanation, a report, a comparison, a how-to. Written in markdown and set as a readable page about 680 pixels wide, with real headings, lists, tables and code. Markdown you paste becomes one too.

Card

A compact designed sheet for one idea: a number and what it means, a summary, a profile, a comparison. Between 320 and 600 pixels wide.

Slide

Exactly 1280 by 720, 16 by 9, with large type. A deck is one sheet per slide, in layouts such as points, two columns, stats, a chart, a quote or a timeline. About six short points fit, and more goes onto the next slide rather than shrinking.

A4 page

Exactly 794 by 1123, one printed page, for something to print or save as a PDF, such as a report, a brief or a handout. A longer document is a cover and pages in one design, and the PDF comes out as A4 pages.

Diagram

A flowchart, a sequence of requests, an org chart, a database design, a state machine, a gantt plan, a timeline or a mind map, laid out by Mermaid so no box or arrow overlaps another. The sheet takes the height of the drawing. Ask for a change and the diagram is rewritten in place.

Board items

Ideas people will move around, such as a brainstorm, a kanban board, a retrospective or an affinity map, come as real sticky notes, text, shapes and frames, with arrows between them. They are the same items you draw yourself, so you drag, recolor and retype them.

Picture

An illustration, a poster image or a scene, made for the request and put on the board as an image. A small asset, such as a sticker, an icon or a badge, comes cut out on a transparent background and stands on the board with no sheet behind it. A picture made for a slide or a page goes inside that sheet instead.

Page

A landing page, an app screen or a dashboard, laid out as a real page about 1280 wide.

App

A React app made in Claude, running on the board with its own buttons, charts and data, which everyone on the board shares.

Map

Places and routes on a real map. Each place is a numbered pin with its name and a note; click a pin for the whole note.

Words are cheap: a plain question is answered as a document, written in markdown, which costs a fraction of a designed page. A designed sheet is used only where layout carries meaning: slides for a talk, A4 pages for something to print, a card for a designed summary, a page for a mockup. A process, a plan, a timeline or a structure becomes a diagram, ideas to sort such as a kanban board or a SWOT become sticky notes in frames, and anything about where things are becomes a map. Tickets, issues or merge requests become a records sheet: a list, columns by status, person or group, or one item in detail with its fields.

Slides, A4 pages, cards and records come from templates: the AI picks a layout for each one and writes only its words and numbers, and the sheet is drawn from them as they arrive. That is quicker and cheaper than designing every sheet from nothing, and a deck looks like one deck. The slide, A4 and card templates are also in the Templates and the library, to put down and fill in yourself. For something no template covers, such as a poster, an infographic or an app, it designs the sheet itself.

When you ask for a game such as tic-tac-toe or a quiz, or for something else the library has, such as a poll, a timer or a retrospective, it puts that piece down and fills in its words.

Everything the AI makes, and every template, is set in one design: the same fonts and colors for everyone on the board and in every export, whatever look you chose for the app. The house style is white paper, dark ink, magenta and cyan, with Archivo for headings and Source Serif for text. A sheet the AI designs from nothing takes its fonts and colors from the same design.

On Plus and Pro, a board can be set in a brand kit of yours instead: your colors, fonts and logo, which a kit can take from your website. See Brand kits.

A map holds up to 60 places and 12 routes. It fills its sheet edge to edge; zoom it with its own buttons or a double-click, while the mouse wheel keeps moving the board. The places are kept inside the sheet as data, so “add the airport” or “move pin 3” changes the map in place.

Documents, cards, records, pages and diagrams follow the height of their content as it changes, so nothing is cut off: a font or an image that loads late, a chart that draws, a question that opens, an edit, or making the sheet narrower. Slides, A4 pages, maps and apps keep their size. Resize any sheet by its handles and it keeps the size you give it from then on; the AI can also resize and rearrange when you ask it to lay things out.

A sheet the AI or a connected AI app writes is shown exactly as written, as it would look in a browser tab, and so is one made from a template. Every sheet is HTML underneath. Double-click one to interact with it, pick one part of it to change or type into (see Change one part of a sheet), and export it as a picture, a web page, text, PDF or PowerPoint (see Export and save).

Sheets run in a sealed frame: they cannot reach your account, the board page or the network, apart from fonts, a few script libraries such as charting, and map tiles.