Everything else on the canvas is a label on a thing: short, centred, sized to its box. A Page is the exception. It is a paper-proportioned surface you write into, for the prose a diagram needs but a label cannot hold: a brief, a decision record, the notes a workshop board is built around.
Without one, that writing lives in a separate doc, and the diagram stops being the whole artefact.
Adding one
The masthead
A Page carries a heading and a subtitle above its body, separated by a hairline rule. Click either line to edit it, then press Enter to commit or Escape to restore what was there before.
These are their own fields, not the first two lines of your text. That means you can reorder, reformat, or empty the body without the heading moving or disappearing. Both lines are always there: an empty one shows a placeholder rather than collapsing, so a page looks the same before and after anyone writes in it.
Headings are plain text, capped at 200 characters. A title has one look and the element sets it, so the formatting toolbar does not apply there.
Writing in the body
Double-click opens the same rich-text editor every label uses, so there is one editing surface to learn and one set of shortcuts. See text and fonts for the formatting available.
The body sits top-left inside a wide margin, the way a word processor sets prose, rather than centred like every other element. When your text outgrows the sheet it scrolls inside the page instead of the page growing without bound.
It behaves like any other element
A Page moves, resizes, groups, locks and layers exactly like a shape. It takes links, notes, comments and assigned actions too.
Two deliberate differences:
- It keeps its own colours. New elements pick up a tint from the tab's theme and backdrop; a page does not, because tinting it like the nodes around it is exactly what stops it reading as paper. You can still recolour it from the right-click menu.
- Its proportions are not locked. The default is 420 × 594, the A-series ratio, but nothing pins it there. A landscape page is a legitimate thing to want.
Pair a Page with a portal when a board needs a written brief: keep the prose on one tab and link straight to the diagram it describes.
What a Page is not
A Page is one sheet, not a document that flows onto a second one. There is no pagination, and the body holds text rather than tables, images or embeds. Put an image or a table element beside the page instead.
On export it behaves like any other element: its text in Markdown, its box in PNG and SVG.
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