Collaborate elements

Most elements show what one person drew. The Collaborate category holds the ones that collect what everybody thinks, and keep it on the board afterwards.

Open the palette's category dropdown and pick Collaborate. The comment panel sits loose at the top, since it is the one you reach for outside a facilitated session; the rest are in two collapsible rows, Ask the room (the three estimate scales, the temperature check and the idea box) and Keep a record (agenda, decision record, roll call).

Comment panel

A comment panel is a card on the board that shows a whole comment thread: the count in its header, the comments themselves, a composer, and resolve or reopen. You read it where it sits, without opening anything.

Add one from the palette to put a remark on a place — an empty patch of canvas, the gap between two clusters, the spot where something should go. Or select an element and choose Collaborate › Comment Panel, which drops a panel to its right and joins the two with an ordinary arrow. Nothing bespoke: the panel is about that element, and an arrow is what "about" already means on this canvas, so the pair moves, exports and behaves like anything else you have drawn.

You can already comment on any element by selecting it and using its comment badge. That popover is one reader's transient view: it opens for you and closes again. A panel is the same thread, composer and resolve button, left out on the board — so it is in the export and in everyone else's session, which is what makes a remark part of the diagram rather than a note somebody left.

It does not fold away. A collapse-to-summary was built and then dropped, because a panel you deliberately put on the board is there to be read, and folding it hides the whole point of it behind another click. If you do not want a thread on display, the element's own comment badge is still there.

Estimate card

Planning poker. Everyone picks a number privately; one Reveal shows every answer at once.

• The Ask the room row opens into one tile per scale: Fibonacci (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ?), T-shirt (XS to XL) and Powers of two. Pick the scale you want and the card drops on it; you can still change an existing card from its menu, under Scale.
• Before the reveal the card shows who has answered, not what they said. That is the point: seeing a number first is what anchors a room.
• Press your own pick again to withdraw it. Picking a different one replaces it.
• After the reveal, every answer appears under its author with the spread called out, or "Unanimous" when everyone agreed.
• Clear empties the card for the next story.

Every scale ends in ?, which is a real answer: "I can't size this."

Temperature check

A fist-of-five gauge. Everyone registers 1 (blocked) to 5 (enthusiastic), and the bars and the average move as the answers land.

This one is never hidden, deliberately. Watching the shape of the room appear is the reading — a flat 3 across the board and a split between 1s and 5s have the same average and mean opposite things.

Idea box

Anonymous submissions, held until you open the box.

• Anyone types into Add an idea. No name is recorded against it — the element has nowhere to store one.
• While it is closed the box shows a count only, not the text, and not even to the person who wrote it.
• Open the box shows everything to the room. There is no closing it again: the flag protects the writing round, it isn't a toggle.
• Scatter to stickies turns the ideas into ordinary sticky notes beside the box, so you can group, move and dot-vote them.

Use it for retro round one, pre-mortems, and anything where the honest answer needs the safety of not being attributed.

Agenda

The run of the session, with minutes against each segment.

• Press a segment and it starts the tab timer for that long and marks itself as where the room is.
• Done segments strike through; the current one shows the time remaining.
• The header shows the total, which is the number that tells you the plan doesn't fit before you start.
• Add, rename, re-time and reorder segments from the element's menu, under Segments.

Nothing advances by itself when a timer ends. A segment running out is a prompt for a person, not an instruction.

Decision record

What was decided, why, when, and whether it still stands — beside the thing it decided.

• The element's label is the decision itself ("Use D1 for durable storage").
• A status chip: Proposed, Accepted, Rejected or Superseded.
• A date, and the drivers that led to it.

All three are set from the element's menu, under Decision. To show that one decision replaced another, draw an arrow between the two cards.

Roll call

Who was in the room, frozen into the diagram.

Press Take roll and it records everyone present at that moment — and keeps them after they leave. It is minutes, not a live list, which is why it still means something tomorrow. Taking the roll again replaces the list.

Who can use them

Anyone with an edit link. Someone on a view-only link sees every card and its answers but can't cast, reveal or clear — the controls render but stay inactive rather than pretending to work.

Answers aren't undoable: your Ctrl+Z should never retract somebody else's answer.