A computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) with a mouse or trackpad and a keyboard gives you the complete livediagram experience. Everything in the help centre works here, so this is the best place to do detailed work.
Everything is available
All of the tools in the palette work on desktop, including Spotlight, which dims the canvas and follows your cursor to highlight one thing at a time. Spotlight needs a mouse to track and click, so it only appears on larger screens.
You also get the floating panels (the palette, the Explorer, and the activity and comments panels), which you can drag around the canvas and tuck away when you want more room.
Mouse and keyboard
A mouse and keyboard unlock the fastest ways to work:
- Keyboard shortcuts for picking tools and running common actions, like undo, copy, duplicate, and zoom. See Keyboard Shortcuts for the full list.
- Hold Shift while resizing to keep an element's proportions, and Shift-click to add or remove elements from a selection.
- Drag a box across empty canvas to select several elements at once.
- Hold Space and drag, or scroll, to move around; hold Ctrl (or Cmd) and scroll to zoom.
Right-click and hover
Right-click any element, tab, or empty canvas to open its menu of formatting and actions. Hovering also reveals helpers that stay out of the way until you need them, such as tooltips and the controls for adding table rows and columns.
Working on something detailed or presenting to a room? A computer is the most comfortable place to do it, with the most screen space and the quickest controls.
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