Column

A column holds related cards in order. It is the one container on the workspace that actually keeps what you put in it.

It is its own family in the rail, next to Card.

Place it

Open Column in the rail and drag it onto the canvas — or tap +.

Use it

Drag cards into it. The column keeps them in order, top to bottom.

Drag a card out and it returns to the open workspace. Nothing is trapped in a column.

Reorder by dragging a card up or down within the column.

A new column tells you what it is for — “Drop cards here to add them intentionally” — and shows a count of what it holds, so an empty one is obviously empty rather than looking broken.

What it is for

Sequence. A column is the right tool whenever the order matters:

• A backlog, most important at the top
• Stages of work — ideas, drafting, published
• A shortlist you are narrowing down

Several columns side by side give you a board in the kanban sense, without any special mode: they are just columns on a workspace.

Column versus a drawn box

You can also draw a rectangle around some cards. That looks similar and behaves completely differently.

	Column	Rectangle
Holds cards	Yes — cards go in and stay in order	No — it is a drawing behind them
Moving it	Takes its cards with it	Leaves the cards where they are
Order	Kept	None

Use a column when membership and order matter. Use a rectangle when you only want a visual grouping.

Worth knowing

A column is a card too. It sits on the workspace like anything else, so it can be moved, resized and deleted — and deleting it asks first, because it takes what is inside with it.

Next

• Cards — the notes and to-dos that go in a column
• Shapes — grouping visually instead