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Documents, Boards, Columns and Cards

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FlowBoard organizes your work in four levels: a document contains boards, a board contains columns, and a column contains cards. Everything in a document is stored in one plain Markdown file.

Documents

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A document is one .md file. You open it from the start screen with Open File or Open Recent, and FlowBoard saves every change back to it.

Because the document is a single text file, it stays yours. You can open it in any text editor, keep it in a synced folder, compare versions, or put it under version control.

Boards

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A document holds one or more boards. The board list on the left shows all of them, and you work on one board at a time.

Use boards for the large divisions of your material: the chapters of a novel, the acts of a script, the subjects you’re studying, or the projects you’re planning.

Columns

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Each board has columns. Name them after whatever structure suits the board: stages such as To Do and Done, scenes in order, or categories of notes.

Three column roles have special behavior. Choose which column plays each role in Settings → Board → Special Columns.

Role What it does
Archive Every board has one, and it’s always the last column. Pressing Delete on a card moves the card here, so you can still bring it back. The Archive column can’t be deleted.
Done Pressing X sends a card here. If no Done column is set, the last regular column plays this role.
Reference For material you want to keep with the board, such as sources, notes or character sheets. It’s left out of Read View and of full exports by default. A board has a reference column only if you choose one.

Cards

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A card holds text written in Markdown, so it can contain emphasis, lists, headings, links, tables and images. A card can be one line or a full scene.

Cards can also carry metadata that FlowBoard displays and uses for filtering and sorting:

  • tags, such as #draft or #chapter/one
  • an importance level from ! to !!!
  • a due date
  • a tint, which colors the card

Several cards in a column can be collected into a group, which you can fold away.

How it looks in the file

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Boards are level-one headings, columns are level-two headings, and cards are list items that start with * . Card metadata goes on the card’s last line.

# Novel


## Draft


* Write the opening scene
  ::!! ::2026-08-20 ::#draft


## Archive

Settings for the document and its boards are stored as YAML frontmatter at the top of the file.

When FlowBoard saves, it rewrites the whole file in its own consistent layout. Content that doesn’t fit the structure above may be removed. Read The FlowBoard file format before you edit a document in another editor.

Media files

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Images, PDFs and audio files that you add to cards are stored as separate files in an assets folder next to the document. The card only holds a reference to them.

Inside the assets folder, each board has a folder of its own, and a card’s references point into the folder of the board it’s on. When a card moves to another board in Story Map or through an AI Assist Edit plan, or when you duplicate a board or paste a column into another board, FlowBoard keeps the card pointing to the same files. To do that, it may change a reference into a path to the original board’s folder, such as ![[./boards/board-act-1/photo.png]]. The files stay where they are.

To remove files that nothing refers to anymore, see Clean up unused media.

The assets folder is one of several files named after the document, along with its Story Map layout and, if you use them, a session and story translations. To keep them together, rename or duplicate a document from the start screen, as described in Rename or duplicate a document.

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