Moving, resizing & transforming
Drag, resize, rotate, crop, restack, and lock anything on the board: images and cards, shapes and drawings, and connector wires.
Click an item and drag. Members of a Ctrl + G group move as one unit, and connector wires (plus their routing dots) ride along with whatever they’re attached to. Hold Shift while dragging for smart alignment: snapping, guide lines, and a live gap measurement to the nearest neighbor.
Resize
Section titled “Resize”- Drag a corner of a selected card (aspect preserved for media). Sticky notes and documents use a single bottom-right grip.
- Right-click ▸ Scale to… sets an exact factor, 10 % to 200 %, for the whole selection. Native size snaps an image back to its real pixel dimensions.
- Match size actions (fit width / height / both to the first-selected item) live in the Arrange menus.
Use it when: dropped stills come in at wildly different sizes.
Transform mode (Ctrl + T)
Section titled “Transform mode (Ctrl + T)”Ctrl + T, or the Transform button in the top bar, puts the selection in transform mode on any element type.
- Eight handles scale from any edge or corner, stay grab-able at any zoom, and orient to a rotated object, so a tilted card resizes along its own axes.
- The rotation knob floats above the top edge; drag it to rotate. Wires, group members, and network-box contents follow rotation correctly.
- A live size readout shows width and height just outside the edges.
- The pivot is movable: drag it anywhere, even outside the element, to rotate around a custom point. Right-click ▸ Reset pivot puts it back.
- Esc (or Ctrl + T again) exits. On a drawn shape, double-click enters transform mode directly.
Transforms are saved with the board and covered by session undo (Ctrl + Z).
Use it when: a title mock has to sit at an exact angle over a frame.
Reset a mangled element
Section titled “Reset a mangled element”Right-click ▸ Reset undoes accumulated manipulation without touching content: Rotation, Scale, Position, or All. It works on a whole mixed selection at once.
Use it when: an experiment left a cluster rotated, shrunken, and scattered.
Crop images & GIFs (non-destructive)
Section titled “Crop images & GIFs (non-destructive)”Two ways in:
- Double-click the image or GIF on the board.
- Select it and click Crop in the top bar, immediately right of Transform.
Both open the same editor. Crop is momentary: it closes as soon as you apply or cancel. The editor opens in place on the image and stays glued to it as you move around underneath.
Framing the crop
Section titled “Framing the crop”- Drag the amber handles on the box edges and corners to trim. The area you’re cutting away stays visible but faded, and disappears when you leave the editor.
- Right-drag the picture to slide the image underneath a fixed crop box, for when the box is the right shape but the framing is wrong.
- Zoom and pan the canvas as usual while the editor is open. Gestures outside the crop box still reach the board.
Applying, resetting, backing out
Section titled “Applying, resetting, backing out”A small floating bar sits just below the crop box.
| Button | Also | Does |
|---|---|---|
| Apply | Enter | Commits the crop and closes the editor. |
| Reset | - | Snaps the box back to the full image, editor stays open. |
| Cancel | Esc | Closes the editor and leaves the image as it was. |
Bind Toggle Crop Mode to a key of your own in Settings ▸ Shortcuts. It ships unbound.
What “non-destructive” means
Section titled “What “non-destructive” means”The crop is a region of the original image, not new pixels, and the
source file on disk is never modified. The card shrinks to the cropped
area, the crop saves into the .rmic and comes back with the board,
Ctrl+Z undoes it, and reopening Crop lets you loosen or reposition the
region at any time, including back to the full frame. On a GIF the region
applies to every frame.
Crop works on image and GIF cards, but not on SVG or HDR images or a card whose source file is missing; there, double-click does nothing and the Crop button stays out of reach.
Use it when: you want one prop out of a busy reference photo.
Stacking order
Section titled “Stacking order”Right-click ▸ Bring to Front / Bring Forward / Send Backward / Send to Back restacks overlapping elements. Marking, commenting, or selecting an element never changes its z-order.
Lock things down
Section titled “Lock things down”Right-click ▸ Lock selected freezes an element: it can’t be moved or resized, and align/arrange actions leave it in place. Unlock selected frees it again, and the canvas right-click menu offers Unlock all (with a count). Locked items can’t be grouped until unlocked.
Use it when: a backdrop plate or frame grid must not shift.
Element names
Section titled “Element names”Right-click ▸ Show name on selected / Hide name on selected toggles the name label under cards.
Manipulating connectors
Section titled “Manipulating connectors”- Re-wire an endpoint: press on a wire’s end and drag. A plain click never disconnects anything; only real movement grabs the end. While dragging, a green hit-point dot shows the exact edge spot the endpoint will snap to, and the whole node body is a valid target, with interior drops snapping to the nearest edge.
- Bundled junctions fan open on hover. When several wires share an attachment point, hovering spreads them into separate handles (the one under your cursor lights up green) so you can grab or disconnect a single wire.
- Wire-to-wire: wires can attach to other wires. Press-drag at the junction dot to detach one.
- Steer the route with routing sockets (Ctrl + click on a wire), and restyle with the wire toolbar or Copy / Paste / Link Style.
- Delete a connection from the wire’s right-click menu, or hold Y and drag across wires to cut them.
Use it when: a pipeline diagram changes owners and wires need re-pointing.
Edit a path’s anchors
Section titled “Edit a path’s anchors”Right-click a path ▸ Edit anchors… to move its anchor points and reshape the curve instead of redrawing it.