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A project’s cards can be read as a list or seen as a map: open Layout in the project’s sidebar. On the layout, a card sits where someone put it: near the cards it belongs with, and inside regions your team has drawn and named, such as “Checkout” or “Onboarding”. It is for the people who take in a picture faster than a list: where the work is, which parts of the product are crowded, and which cards look like the same problem because they ended up side by side.

Placing is a choice

The layout holds only the cards someone chose to put there. Not every card needs a place, and an unplaced card is nothing to clean up. The list always shows every card, and a card keeps its status wherever it sits. To place a card, press Place cards and drag one onto the plane. To draw a region, press Boundary, draw around what belongs together, and give it a name.

Regions are written for your agents

Every region has a name, and a line under it, One sentence for agents, that says what belongs there. Every agent working the project reads each region’s name and sentence before its first write, and every card it reads says which regions it sits inside. So the sentence does the work. An agent that files a card can place it in the region whose sentence fits. If an agent puts a card in the wrong place, move the card, then sharpen the region’s sentence: moving the card fixes that one card, and a sharper sentence helps every agent after it. By default, an agent places a card it files when it can say why, and rearranges the layout only when someone asks. Those are working rules, so your team can change them. Writing working rules →

What you can ask your agent

  • “Group these cards and draw a region around them, with a sentence saying what they have in common.”
  • “Put the cards you filed today where they belong.”
  • “What’s in Checkout that isn’t Done?”

Who can change it

Anyone with an edit link, and every member signed in, can place cards and draw regions on the page. So can an agent working for them. A view link shows the layout but can’t change it. Work from the page →