Boards inside boards

A board can hold other boards. Each one shows as a card with a small picture of what is on it. Open the card, and the board opens beside the one you are on, ready to work on.

Add a board

Choose Add a board in the toolbox (the grid of four squares).
Click the board where the new one should go.

You can also drag Add a board from the toolbox to where you want it. Board, under Arrange in Add more, works the same way. The command menu’s New board, and on a Mac File › New Board, put one in the middle of the view.

A new board is called “Untitled board”. It is empty, so its card shows only its name.

Name a board

A board and its card share one name. Renaming either one renames both.

Select the card, then click its name and type. Press ↵Enter to finish.
Or open the board, and double-click its name at the top. Rename in Board options does the same.

What the card shows

A picture of the board, in miniature, as it looks now. An empty board shows none. The picture catches up a few seconds after the board changes.
How much it holds: “8 items”. Once it holds boards of its own, how many levels deep it goes: “8 items · 2 levels”.
Open, to open it.
Project beside its name, when the board is kept in Projects.
On 2 boards, when the card shows on more than one board. See One thing, many places.

Open a board

Double-click the card, or click Open on it. Selecting it and pressing ↵Enter works too, and so does Open in the actions bar or the node menu.

The board opens in the side panel, beside the board you are on. It is a whole board there, with its own name, toolbox and zoom bar. Add, move and change things as you would anywhere. Undo and redo there act on that board only. A board card inside it opens its board in the same panel.

The panel’s header has these buttons:

Full screen gives the board the whole work area. Back to the side puts it back beside the other board.
Open in new tab shows the board in a tab of its own, in the first window.
Open in new window shows it in a window of its own.
Close closes the panel. EscEsc closes it too, once nothing on that board is selected or being typed.

To skip the panel, hold ⌘Ctrl and click Open on the card. The board opens in a new tab. The card’s node menu also has Open in new tab and Open in new window. Tabs and windows explains both.

The Thesis project with its board card named Interviews opened in the side panel at the right, where Thesis shows above the name Interviews and the board has its own toolbox and zoom bar.

See where a board lives

Above a board’s name are the boards it lives in, outermost first, such as “Thursday, 1 October › Trip ideas”. Click one to open it, and Bloomingo flies to this board’s card there.

A board lives where its card was first put, for as long as that card is still there. A board that lives on no board, such as a project made on the Projects page, shows nothing above its name until you put it on a day.

Board options

Choose Board options (⋯) at the top right of a board. A board inside a board, or a project, has these:

Open in new tab, in the first window.
Open in new window, unless this window was opened for this board.
Pin to sidebar, or Unpin. See The sidebar.
Move to Projects, or Take out of Projects (see below).
Put on a day opens a month. Choose a day, and the board’s card shows on that day too: “Put on Friday, 9 October.” The board itself stays where it lives.
Export as PNG and Export as PDF save a picture of the board. See Export and import.
Rename.
Delete board (see below).

Keep a board in Projects

Move to Projects lists the board on the Projects page and adds the “Project” chip to its name. It stays where it lives too. The message says “Added to Projects.”, with Undo.

Take out of Projects only takes it off the Projects page: “Taken out of Projects.” A board that lives on no board needs somewhere to stay, so Bloomingo asks first: Put on Today or Put in Braindump. Projects has more.

A board never holds itself

A board can’t show itself, or a board it lives in, so boards inside boards never go round in a loop. Also show on doesn’t offer those boards. Pasting a board’s card inside itself says “A board can’t go inside itself.”

Copy a board

Select the card and choose Duplicate (⌘DCtrl+D). The copy is a new board, with copies of everything on it, the boards inside it and the links between them.

Delete a board

Open the board and choose Delete board in Board options. Bloomingo asks first, naming the board and how much it holds: “It holds 8 items, which go to Trash with it. You can restore it for 30 days.” Choose Delete board, or Cancel.

The board, everything on it and the boards inside it wait in the Trash for 30 days. A project inside it stays in Projects. The message “Moved to Trash.” has Undo, and the screen moves to where the board lived.

Removing a board’s only card

Removing a board’s card from a board usually takes away the card only. But when that card is the only way to reach the board, and the board isn’t kept in Projects, Bloomingo asks first: “Nothing else leads to this board, so it goes too.”

Keep in Projects keeps the board on the Projects page, then removes the card.
Delete board sends the board and its card to the Trash, for 30 days.
Cancel changes nothing.