Templates and the library

Library on the tool rail opens the library on Templates: slides, A4 pages and cards, drawn in the board's design. Click one to add it in the middle of your view, or drag it onto the board. Deck puts down six slides at once and Report a cover and two pages, each sheet on its own.

Slides

A title, a section, points, two columns, a picture beside words, a big number, a row of stats, a quote, bar, line and pie charts, a timeline and a closing slide.

A4 pages

A report cover, a page of text in one or two columns, a page for tables, and a one-pager.

Cards

A number and what it means, a summary, a profile and a comparison.

Each template says what goes where. Fill it in one of two ways:

1. 1By hand: select the sheet, press Manual select and edit, click a heading or a paragraph to pick it, then double-click it and type. Esc or a click outside keeps what you typed.
2. 2With the AI: select the sheets and ask, such as “fill these slides with our Q3 numbers”. It writes your words into the same layouts, in place.

The AI makes slides, A4 pages and cards from these same templates when you ask for them, so what it makes and what you put down look like one set. See Answer formats.

A sheet can be more than a page: a checklist people tick, a poll they vote in, a timer, a spreadsheet, a game. Double-click a sheet to use it; Esc or a click on the board stops. What one person changes, everyone sees at once, and it is still there after a reload.

Ask the AI for one (“a checklist for launch day we can tick off together”) and it builds it this way. Viewers see the changes but cannot make them.

Curated in the library holds ready-made pieces for everyone; Mine holds your own. Click one to add it, or drag it onto the board.

Games for two

Tic-tac-toe, four in a row and pool (8-ball), in 3D. Two people take the seats and everyone else watches.

Games for a group

Darts (301, one to six players), Bullshit, the bluffing card game, hangman, and draw and guess, where one person draws a secret word and the others race to guess it.

Quizzes and icebreakers

A quiz you fill in that everyone answers on their own screen against the clock, and two truths and a lie.

Running a session

A shared session timer, a retrospective with went well, to improve and actions, with votes and a blind mode, and a live poll.

Team retro

A whole retrospective in one piece: slides that walk the team through it, an icebreaker you ask the AI to turn into a game, and a start, stop, continue board with likes and a shared timer. New board on the boards page also starts a board with it.

Starting points

A spreadsheet with formulas, a project document and a map.

For the AI

Ask for something the library has, such as a game, a quiz, a poll or a timer, and the AI puts that piece down and fills in its words.

The curated library grows over time, so it may hold more than listed here.

Put a game on the board and everyone on it plays the same game live, guests included, on a computer or a phone. Double-click the game, or press Interact, then join or take a seat. Each game shows whose turn it is and keeps score.

Tic-tac-toe and four in a row

Sit in one of the two seats and tap a square or a column. After a round, whoever lost starts the next.

Hangman

Players take turns to pick the word, and the others guess one letter each in turn. Points for every letter found, 3 more for finishing the word, and 5 to the word's setter if nobody gets it.

Draw and guess

The drawer picks one of three words and has 80 seconds. A faster guess scores more, and the drawer scores for every right guess. Use your own words, such as this week's vocabulary, from the start screen.

Quiz

Edit questions holds up to 30 questions of two to four answers. Whoever starts the quiz hosts it and moves to the next question; a right answer scores up to 1000, more for answering fast.

Two truths and a lie

Everyone writes three things about themselves and marks the lie. Then each person's three come up in turn, the others guess, and the host shows the lie.

The AI uses the library too: “let’s play four in a row” puts the game down, and “a quiz about world capitals” puts down the quiz with the questions filled in.

A game keeps its words, hands and answers on the board, where someone who goes looking in their browser’s tools can find them. They are games among friends, not for prizes.

1. 1Select what you want to keep: notes, shapes, sheets, a whole frame.
2. 2Press Save as component in the selection toolbar and give it a name.
3. 3It appears under Mine, ready to add to any board.

A component holds up to 500 items and 2 MB. Deleting one from the library leaves the copies already on boards alone. Saving needs an account, and a board saved online.

To learn how the AI chooses between a template, a component and a new sheet, see Answer formats.