Organizing a board

Keep large boards tidy with groups, network boxes, wires, alignment, and reusable templates.

Select multiple items

Drag across empty space to rubber-band (marquee) select, or hold Ctrl / Shift and click to add items one at a time. Ctrl + A selects everything. Most commands below act on the selection.

Group and ungroup

A logical group makes nodes move together without drawing anything around them.

Group selected (Ctrl + G) tags the selected nodes as one group so they drag as a unit. Groups mix clips, images, shapes, freehand drawings, flow-diagram shapes, and connector wires; wires and their routing dots move with the group.
Ungroup selected (Ctrl + Shift + G) dissolves the grouping.

A closed group selects as a single unit: click any member and you get the whole group, outlined in pink-purple (the outline is the clickable body). Member selection chrome stays hidden until you enter edit mode; the cluster behaves as one object inside network boxes and under rotation.

Edit inside a group

Double-click the group’s outline to enter group edit mode. The outline turns solid and thicker and members move individually.
Shift + drag a member out to remove it from the group. An ordinary drag never removes members.
Double-click the outline again, or press Enter / Esc, to finish.

Group edit mode is session-only and is never saved into the .rmic.

Use it when: one pose in a grouped character lineup needs swapping.

Network boxes

A network box is a labelled container drawn around a cluster of nodes.

Group + network box (Shift + G) wraps the selection in a network box and groups it.
New network box (Ctrl + Shift + O) drops a box around the selection, or an empty box at the center of the view when nothing is selected.

Type a label to name the region. Network-box labels are searchable from the canvas Search popup (Tab).

Select a single network box and a compact style toolbar appears above it. Every control applies live.

Text: label size (6-72 pt) and text color.
Box: fill color and an Opacity slider from fully solid down to 0 % (invisible, for label-only boxes).
Outline: color swatch and thickness slider, independent of the fill.
Marker: apply a review mark or comment to the whole box without the right-click menu.

Defaults for new boxes (fill, opacity, label color and size) live in Settings.

Drag from any empty spot inside the box, not just the header, to move it. Dragging a selection over a box shows a green drop cue when releasing would parent the items into it. Boxes nest, with the same green cue.

Use it when: color-coding a board by sequence.

Collapse a box

Click the − glyph in a box’s corner to collapse it to a titled chip. Click + to expand it back exactly where it was. Collapsed boxes keep their contents.

Use it when: a finished section crowds the part you’re still working on.

Wires and links

Parent (Ctrl + P): the first-selected node becomes the parent, the rest its children, joined by a grey wire. Hold J and drag between nodes to draw a parent wire by hand; PARENT and CHILD hit boxes on the target let the drop point set the direction.
Dynamic link (color swatches) (Ctrl + Shift + P, or hold Shift + J and drag): child color swatches derive their colors from the first-selected parent through its color-theory rules, so editing the parent re-tints the children.
Cut a wire: hold Y (scissor) and drag across it.

While you drag a connector, a live green target box shows which node the end will attach to, including members inside a group. Selecting a wire highlights both connected nodes in green. Wires follow a group move (Ctrl + G).

Style a wire

Click a parent or link wire and a small floating toolbar appears.

Color swatches. Parent wires default grey, dynamic links blue.
Line style: solid or dashed.
Route & roundness: straight, bezier curve, or right-angle elbow, with a roundness slider for elbow corners and curve shapes.

The toolbar keeps clear of the endpoints so they stay grabbable for re-wiring.

Use it when: two kinds of relationship need to read differently.

Routing sockets

Ctrl + hover a wire and Ctrl + click to drop a routing socket, a movable dot the wire passes through. Each socket has a toolbar for the dot color and an optional label (text color and size) that rides along the wire’s angle. Several wires can snap onto one socket, sockets persist with the board, and they follow their wire through selection, group, and network-box moves. Wires bunched at a shared junction fan open on hover so you can grab or disconnect one line; dragging at a wire-to-wire junction detaches just that wire.

Use it when: a diagram’s wires all cross one busy corridor.

Copy, paste & link styles

Right-click a wire or shape ▸ Copy style, then Paste style onto any selection. One style clipboard covers wires, shapes, and draw lines, carrying color, width, dash, fonts, and rectangle roundness. Link Style pastes as a reference: followers update live when the master changes, propagating fill, outline, width, font, and text color in real time. Show Links overlays the relationships; Unlink breaks one.

Use it when: a flowchart’s “approved path” styling changes mid-review.

Align and arrange

Select two or more items and a floating selection bar appears with the count and dropdowns for Align, Arrange, Scale, Export, Timeline, and Deselect. The same actions live on the right-click menu under Arrange and on the top bar’s Arrange button.

Align: left / right / top / bottom edges, or center on one shared vertical or horizontal line. The target line comes from the selection’s own bounds, so items shift the minimum distance. Works on clips, images, shapes, text, sticky notes, and network boxes; locked items stay put. Each align action can get its own shortcut under Settings ▸ Shortcuts (unassigned by default).
Layout: snap the selection into a horizontal row, vertical column, grid, tight grid (no gaps), or stack. The gap is the arrange spacing setting (default 24 px) in Settings.
Pack: space-saving layouts for big image sets: bin-packing (MAXRECTS, Guillotine, Skyline, Bottom-Left and friends), masonry columns, treemap, force-directed cluster, Voronoi scatter, spiral from centre, sort-by-size, and more.
Match size: size every selected item to the first-selected one. Fit width or fit height scale proportionally; fit both gives an exact match.

Each align, layout, pack, and match-size action is one undo step.

Hold A for the quick align gesture: click for a grid, or drag horizontally / vertically for an even row or column. Shift + A and click gives an instant tight grid (no gaps). Align, arrange, and pack treat groups as rigid units and are rotation-aware, so a tilted group packs intact.

Use it when: forty reference stills land in a heap.

Smart alignment while dragging

Hold Shift while dragging any element (images, video cards, stickies, shapes, text, documents, nodes) and it snaps to nearby objects’ edges and centers, with guide lines through both objects and a cyan gap measurement (in px) to the nearest neighbor. Floating toolbars move aside during the drag; guides clear on release.

Use it when: placing a title card exactly against a frame edge.

Let the AI organize the board

The AI assistant reorganizes a board or selection into titled, tinted clusters, grouped by content, color, name, type, orientation, format, or date added.

Templates

Create template (Ctrl + Shift + T) saves the selection as a reusable template.
Open template library (Ctrl + Alt + T) browses, inserts, and manages saved templates.

Portable clusters (`.prmic`)

Export selection (Ctrl + Shift + E) writes the selection out as a portable .prmic cluster file you can drop onto another board. Sticky notes export as Prompt nodes and images as Reference Image nodes, so a cluster is ready to feed the Local AI image-gen graph on the other side.