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Everything you can drag, you can now do without dragging.

Reschedule, move a star, file it in a cluster, relate two stars, place a shape, pan a diagram or restore a version with the keyboard or a tap, and every control is big enough for a finger.

Nodary board with a rectangle placed from the keyboard and selected, next to the keyboard help that lists the shortcuts
Inside Nodary · Demonstration data

Dragging is quick with a mouse and awkward everywhere else: on a trackpad on a train, on a phone, with a keyboard, with a hand that shakes. Nodary no longer makes dragging the only way to do anything.

Plans without dragging

Every calendar card has a Reschedule button that opens the date picker, and Alt with the arrow keys moves a focused card by a day or a week. The card moves at once, the keyboard stays on it, and a screen reader hears the new date. The due date can also be changed from Document details, so on a phone too.

A map you can steer by keys

Alt and the arrow keys move a star, or the whole selection, and the new place is saved and shared like a drop. Move to… files a star in a cluster from a searchable list. Relate ends with Enter on the other star. Shift+Space builds a selection, and cards and frames answer the same keys as stars. On a touch screen every star keeps a target a finger can hit, whatever the zoom.

Boards, diagrams and history

A board tool chosen with the keyboard places its shape in the middle of the view, ready to move with the arrows. An expanded diagram pans with the arrow keys. Each version in the history opens and restores from the keyboard, and the AI panel has an Attach button next to its drop area.

Try it in your workflow

  1. Open the board demonstration.
  2. Press Tab until Rectangle, then Enter: the shape appears in the middle.
  3. Press the arrow keys to move it.
  4. Open a document in column view, expand its diagram and pan it with the arrows.
Try the example

Every control measured on the demonstration and on the signed-in pages is at least 24 by 24 pixels, or far enough from its neighbours, on a computer and on a phone. Freehand drawing stays a gesture, and a link inside a document being edited is followed from reading view.

Keep exploring

The Home of Frostline Studio, a fictional games studio, in Nodary: under Your projects, the name of Project Kestrel has turned into a field holding the new name, Glasswing, typed in place beside its 3 documents, with Ember Tactics and Tidewater below and the documents to jump back into above.
Teams and access

Rename a workspace or a project where you see its name.

Press F2 on a project’s or a workspace’s name, or choose Rename in its menu, and the name becomes a field where it stands: on Home, in the top bar, on the map, in Columns or from Ctrl+K. Every open tab follows, and the team’s history keeps each rename.

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Design pillars of Saltmarrow, a fictional sample project, in Nodary’s editor, opened from the map: Back to the map · Vision at the start of the header, the words “The tide is the clock” selected in a heading with the bubble above them offering B, I, U, S, Link and Turn into, then Clarify, Shorten, Tone and Comment, and below, a list whose items keep their bold “Do:” and “Don’t:”.
Documents

Write by hand, with the keys you already know.

A new document has a line to type on, bold and links stay in lists and tables, a bubble formats what you select and the shortcuts of other editors work. The way back from a document names where it goes, and gets there.

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