Saving & versions

Boards save as .rmic files, and every board keeps a version history.

Save and open

• Save (Ctrl + S) / Save As (Ctrl + Shift + S) write the board to a .rmic. An unsaved board is “Untitled” until its first save.
• Open (Ctrl + O) loads an existing .rmic. New (Ctrl + N) starts a blank board.

What saving creates on disk

Saving creates a Canvas_<name>/ project folder holding the .rmic plus subfolders that appear as you use each feature: Screenshots/ (PNG exports), Pasted/ (clipboard images), Audio/ (voice memos), Docs/, Moodboards/, Tasks/. Images pasted before the first save move into Pasted/ on save.

Moving a board to shared storage?

Media dragged in from outside is referenced in place, not copied, so the Canvas_<name>/ folder doesn’t contain those files. Before a board leaves your machine, right-click external items ▸ Copy to shared folder, or enable the auto-copy-imports Settings toggle. See How ReelMarkr works.

Missing media & relinking

Boards store media paths relative to the board’s folder, with forward slashes. On load the canvas auto re-anchors them, recognizing Windows drive/UNC and macOS/POSIX paths on either OS. A board saved on Windows opens on a Mac with its media intact.

If a file is gone (renamed, moved, offline drive), the node shows a broken-link card with the file’s name — and that now holds for every media type: clips, images, audio, fonts, and folder shortcuts all show as missing instead of disappearing (a missing clip used to render as a black player). Right-click ▸ Replace… to point any of them at a new file and the node relinks live, keeping its place, size, and wires; Find Missing Media relinks in bulk, and a successful relink shows on the board immediately.

Imported files also remember where they came from: audio and fonts are copied into the project on import, and the original location is recorded, shown on the broken-link card as Imported from, and used to pre-seed the Replace dialog.

Use it when: a drive letter changed and the board’s media no longer resolves.

The Canvases launcher

The Canvases launcher is a thumbnail gallery of your boards. It opens at launch when you start without a file, and reopens from the Home button in the top bar. It stays open alongside the canvas.

Three sources run down the left side:

• Recent: the boards you opened most recently.
• Favorites: a pinned list that survives clearing Recent. Click a card’s star (or right-click it) to add or remove a favorite.
• Folders: your own folders, added with + Folder and scanned one level deep for canvas files. Group them under headings with + Category.

A search box filters the gallery. A toggle switches between grid and compact list views and remembers your choice. Each card shows a file-type badge (rmic, prmic, imc) and its last-modified date. Right-click for quick actions, including Duplicate and Rename.

One writer per board

.rmic boards take a single-user lock. If a board is already open elsewhere, say on another machine over shared storage, a second open can’t clobber the first one’s saves. Close it in one place to edit it in the other.

Autosave

Boards autosave in the background every few minutes (default 5; set 1-60 minutes in Settings). Autosaves feed the same version history as manual saves.

Time Machine

Open Time Machine (Ctrl + H, also the button in the top bar) to scrub back through earlier snapshots and restore one. The same snapshots provide the thumbnails in the Canvases launcher.