Isometric View

Isometric view re-projects the current tab into an isometric scene with depth: the flat diagram tilts onto an angled plane and each shape rises into a solid raised block. It's a way to look at a diagram, not to edit one, and it reads especially well for architecture decks, system maps, and screenshots. It reuses your existing elements wholesale, the same shapes, fonts, themes, colours, and images, just projected, so nothing is redrawn in a lower-fidelity form.

What you see

• The whole content layer tilts onto the isometric plane, so the diagram reads as a surface seen from above and to the side.
• Each boxed element (shapes, text, tables, images, stickies, link cards, annotations, frames) gains extruded depth, standing off the floor as a raised block. The block's sides paint in the element's own accent colour, shaded darker toward the floor.
• Arrows, freehand strokes, and labels stay on the base plane and ride the tilt along with everything else.

It's a view, not an editor

Isometric is navigation-only, modelled on the Hand tool:

• Dragging pans the scene, just like Hand. Scroll or pinch still zooms.
• Shift-drag or right-button-drag orbits the camera: horizontal motion spins the view around, vertical motion tilts it between edge-on and top-down. A plain right-click still opens the context menu; only a right-drag orbits. The angle is local to your session and stays a parallel (isometric) projection throughout, never a perspective camera.
• An orbit button appears in the bottom-right zoom controls (between Fit and the Zen toggle) while the view is active. Drag it to orbit without holding a modifier, or click it to snap back to the default isometric angle.
• There's no selecting, dragging, resizing, or editing while it's active. To edit, switch back to Select. Pressing Escape exits the view.

It's purely a view state: it changes nothing about the diagram, never saves to the server, and isn't synced, so each viewer tilts independently. It's available to everyone, including view-only visitors, since looking is read-only.

Turning it on

• Pick Isometric from the tool dropdown in the command palette (its own cube icon), grouped at the end after the editing and presenter tools.
• Or press I on the keyboard. It obeys the per-device shortcuts toggle and won't trigger while you're typing in a label, and it's listed in the shortcuts dialog under Tools.
• Switching to any other tool (or pressing S for Select) returns to the flat 2D view.

Exporting an isometric image

The Export dialog has an Isometric view toggle, off by default. Turn it on and your PNG, SVG, and PDF exports tilt into the same projection as the on-canvas view, complete with the extruded depth, so the image reads three-dimensionally rather than as a flat tilted plane. JSON and Markdown exports ignore the toggle.