Everything around the canvas is a panel: a small, self-contained piece of the interface that floats over the board rather than taking a fixed slot in a rigid layout. The canvas itself fills the screen, and the panels sit on top of it at the edges, so the diagram always has room to breathe.
You will meet a handful of them: the palette for adding things, the tab bar for moving between boards, the toolbar that appears when something is selected, the zoom controls, and the quick controls in the corner. Each is covered in its own guide.
Panels stay out of the way: they appear when they are useful and tuck back when they are not, and several can be dragged to a spot that suits you. The point is a calm workspace where the canvas is the star and the controls are within reach without crowding it.
Put panels in the corner you want
Every floating panel can be dragged by its header to any corner of the screen — the Palette, Explorer, Activity, Collaborate, Layers, AI, Map, and the Poll and Vote panels that appear while a session tool is running. Snap guides appear in the four corners while you drag, and the nearest one highlights to show where the panel will land; drop it away from every corner and it stays free-floating right where you left it. Panels sharing a corner stack neatly and reflow when one of them is hidden. Your arrangement is remembered per device, so a reload restores it, and the reset button in a panel's header sends it back to its default corner.
Want even less on screen? Most panels can be hidden for a distraction-free view, see Zen mode.
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