Moving items

The board is a free layout. Nothing is forced into a grid, and you can drag anything anywhere. This works in and out of edit mode.

Dragging

Hover over an item and a grip handle appears at its edge. Drag from there.

Or hold Alt/Option and drag from anywhere on the item.

Note

Dragging a file or folder from its body, without the grip handle or Alt/Option, does something different: it picks the file up to move or copy it somewhere else. See Moving and copying.

Snapping

As you drag, items snap to line up with the edges of nearby items, helping you align items easily.

To place something freely, hold Ctrl/Cmd while dragging.

Moving several items

Select them and drag any one of them, and the rest come with it, keeping their relative positions. See Selecting items.

Reaching the far side of the board

Drag an item to the edge of the window and the board scrolls, so you can carry it past what is currently on screen.

Exact positions

In edit mode, the Layout tab has a Position field for items on the board. Type coordinates in when you want two things placed identically rather than nearly.