Shapes hold the ideas in your diagram. The palette's Shapes tab covers the everyday set, a square, circle, diamond, cylinder, parallelogram, hexagon, document, stadium, cloud, triangle, trapezoid, star, and speech bubble, so there is a node for flowcharts, data stores, decisions, and notes alike.
Adding a shape
Open the Shapes tab in the floating palette and click a shape to drop it on the canvas, or drag to draw it at the size you want. Once placed, a shape behaves like any other element: move, resize, recolour, group, and theme it as usual.
Morphing between kinds
A selected shape can be morphed into another kind in place from its right-click menu, preserving its size and colours, so you are never locked into your first choice. Turn a square into a cylinder or a hexagon into a diamond without redrawing it or losing its styling.
Styling and text
Boxed shapes carry colours, text, and alignment options, all reachable from the element's context menu. Double-click a shape to add a label, then set its size, weight, and alignment from the Text controls.
Status markers
A shape can show a small status glyph, a traffic-light dot or a checkbox, right inside it, so you can flag state without adding a separate element.
Reach for Arrows to connect your shapes into a flow once they are on the canvas.
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