Projects

The project view is where you organise and manage your storyboards. Projects act as folders that keep related storyboards together, and you can nest projects within each other to create a structure that matches how your team works.

The sidebar

The sidebar on the left shows all your projects in a collapsible tree view. Click any project to see its contents in the main area.

Expanding and collapsing projects

Projects with sub-projects show a folder icon with a chevron. Click the chevron or folder icon to expand or collapse the project and reveal its sub-projects. Your expansion state is remembered, so projects stay open or closed as you left them.

Sorting projects

Click the three-dot menu at the top of the Projects section to change how projects are sorted:

• A to Z — Alphabetical order
• Z to A — Reverse alphabetical order
• Newest — Most recently created first
• Oldest — Oldest projects first

Favourite projects

Mark projects you access frequently as favourites by clicking the star icon in the project header. Favourite projects appear in their own section at the top of the sidebar for quick access.

To remove a project from favourites, hover over it in the Favourite Projects section and click the star icon.

Creating projects

Click the + button in the sidebar header to create a new project. You can also hover over any existing project and click + to create a sub-project inside it.

When creating a project, you'll need to:

1. Enter a name for the project
2. Choose a location (which project it sits inside, or at the top level)

Project contents

When you select a project, the main area shows its contents:

• Sub-projects — Any projects nested inside the current one
• Storyboards — All storyboards in this project

Both sections can be collapsed using the disclosure arrows if you want to focus on just one.

Sorting contents

Use the sort controls in the header to organise how sub-projects and storyboards are displayed:

• Name — Alphabetical order
• Date created — When items were first created
• Date modified — When items were last updated

Click the arrow button to toggle between ascending and descending order.

Grid and Kanban views

You can switch between two ways of viewing your storyboards using the toggle in the header.

Grid view

The default view displays storyboards as cards in a grid. Each card shows:

• A thumbnail preview of the storyboard
• The storyboard name
• When it was last updated

Hover over a storyboard card to see the scrubber (if the storyboard has multiple frames) and access the actions menu.

Kanban view

The Kanban view organises storyboards into columns based on their status. This is useful for tracking progress across your team's workflow.

The five columns are:

• Draft — Storyboards with no status set
• In Progress — Work currently being done
• Review Needed — Ready for feedback
• Changes Required — Needs revisions
• Approved — Signed off and complete

Drag storyboards between columns to update their status. The status change is saved automatically.

Sharing a project

Share an entire project with people outside your team using a public link. Click the Share button in the project header to open the sharing dialog.

Enabling public access

Toggle Enable public link to generate a shareable URL. Anyone with this link can view the project and its storyboards without needing a Boords account.

Link settings

Once sharing is enabled, you can customise what viewers see:

• Include project description — Show the project description on the shared page
• Include sub-projects — Allow viewers to navigate into sub-projects
• Add password protection — Require a password to access the shared project (available on Workflow plans)

If password protection is enabled, a randomly generated password is created automatically. Share both the link and the password with your recipients.

Moving projects and storyboards

You can reorganise your workspace by moving items to different locations using either the menu or drag and drop.

Moving via the menu

1. Click the three-dot menu on the project or storyboard
2. Select Move to
3. Choose the new location from the project tree
4. Click Move

Drag and drop

Drag and drop provides a quick way to reorganise your workspace:

From the main content area:

• Drag any storyboard card onto a project in the sidebar to move it into that project
• Drag any sub-project card onto a project in the sidebar to nest it inside that project

Within the sidebar:

• Drag projects up and down to reorder them
• Drop a project onto another project to make it a sub-project
• Drop a project at the root level (the Projects header) to move it out of its current parent

When you drag an item, valid drop targets highlight to show where you can release it. The drop is prevented if it would create an invalid structure (such as moving a project into itself or one of its own sub-projects).

Bulk moving

Select multiple items by clicking their cards, then use the toolbar that appears at the bottom to move them all at once.

Archiving

To remove a project or storyboard without permanently deleting it, use the Archive option from the three-dot menu. Archived items are moved to the Archive where they can be restored later.

Archiving a project also archives all storyboards inside it.

Storyboard actions

Hover over any storyboard card to reveal the actions menu (three dots). From here you can:

• Share link — Get a shareable link to the storyboard
• Duplicate — Create a copy of the storyboard in the same project
• Move to — Move the storyboard to a different project
• Archive — Send the storyboard to the archive