Board flags

A Board flag gives one exact spot on the Board a name — and that name is how the Board joins the rest of your Workspace. Once a spot has one, you can point at it the same way you point at anything else you have saved, jump straight there from wherever you are, and show Mesh which part of the Board you mean.

Add a flag

Flags sits beside the page name in the Board toolbar, and it is one control in two parts. Choose the left part to open the list of every flag on the Board; choose the Add flag part beside it to add one.

  • A new flag lands in the middle of your view. That is where Add flag puts it.
  • Press F to put one at your pointer. The same flag, dropped where the cursor is.
  • It arrives named. Flag 1, Flag 2, and so on, with the name selected so you can type straight over it.
  • Drag a corner to resize it. A flag goes down to half size and up to double.

Flags on pinned content and "Drawn by Mesh" frames

Anything you pin on the Board, and anything Mesh draws there, already holds a spot of its own, so its flag rides in its own header. Choose Add flag and the flag takes the title's seat: from then on the capsule carries the name. Or ask Mesh for one: flag this pin so I can come back to it adds the same flag.

  • Deleting the flag deletes only the flag. The pin or the frame stays on the Board, right where it was.
  • It arrives named after what it rides. A pin's flag opens as the pin's title and its page name; a frame's takes the frame's title.
  • However it was made, it is the same flag. Same capsule, same menu, same row in the list.
  • Mesh flags only what it placed — a pin, or a frame it drew. Never a loose spot, and never your drawing.

Reach it from anywhere

A flag is one of the six things a Reference can point at, so a place on the Board can sit in a Note, on a Topic page, or in a chat, like any other Reference.

  • Go straight there. Go to flag moves the Board to that spot.
  • Or find it without moving. Open in Board flags picks the flag out in the list and leaves your view where it is.
  • Point Mesh at it. Choose the flag as Focus to tell Mesh the question is about that spot.

Find your way back

Jump to a flag from something you were working in — a Note, a Topic Hub, a source in your Library — and the flag grows a Return to ... button pointing back at where you left.

  • It names where you came from. The button wears that name for a few seconds, then settles into a small arrow that keeps the full name in its tooltip.
  • It stays for the session. The flag keeps that Return until a later jump gives it a new one.
  • It is not Back. Back and Forward restore panel selections rather than replaying a Board jump.

Every flag in one list

Flags opens it: every flag on the Board, grouped by page in the Board's own page order, with the page you're on tagged Current.

  • Every row jumps. Its go-to button moves the Board to that flag.
  • Open a row for the rest. See the Topics it is filed under and a comment that saves as you type.
  • Renaming and deleting live in the row's menu. Rename flag and Delete flag.
  • A row says what carries the flag when that is something other than the Board itself, such as a pinned PDF or a Mesh drawing.

Tip:  Name a flag for what the spot means (Worked example 3, Final layout), not where it happens to sit on screen.