Mesh on the Board

Hand Mesh the exact view

Type these in chat, use the toolbar buttons, or type / right on the Board and its Command menu opens at your cursor with both. A message carries one visual at a time, so picking a second view, snip, or pasted picture replaces the first. If a capture fails, the broken draft stays visible so you can remove it, retry, or send without it. The picture itself saves to Images and stays with that message exactly as you sent it.

What Mesh can look at on its own

Besides the view or snip you hand over, Mesh can take its own picture of the Board. It aims at one of six places, and it can only take a picture of the Board page you have open. Looking never moves your view.

Your current view

Exactly what your screen is showing - the same frame you would hand over with Board view. This is what Mesh takes when it isn't aiming anywhere in particular.

The whole page

Everything on the page you're on, shrunk into one picture. It shows Mesh the shape of the page; on a busy page the words come out too small to read.

Your last mark

A close-up of the last thing you drew or changed, with room around it. Text and sticky notes, ink and highlighter, shapes and lines, arrows, and frames all count; pictures, videos, and web cards you dropped in don't, and neither does anything Mesh placed. Closing the Board or reloading the page clears it.

One of your flags

A close-up of the spot a Board flag marks - the surest way to say which part of the Board you mean.

One of your pins

A close-up of a pinned source, Image, or Video where it sits on the Board. With a pinned PDF, Mesh is told which page or pages it is looking at.

What Mesh drew

A close-up of a Drawn by Mesh frame from an earlier request, so it can see its own work beside whatever you have changed since.

• A flag, a pin, or a frame it drew has to be on the page you're on. On another page, Mesh names that page and asks you to switch.
• The Workspace has to be open in your browser. If it isn't, Mesh can't look, and it says so rather than guessing.
• Four pictures at most in one answer, so point it at the right spot instead of sweeping.
• Every one saves to Images as Board (Mesh), so you can see exactly what Mesh saw. Older Mesh captures are deleted as new ones save.

Note:  Even with no picture at all, Mesh knows which page you are on, its Comment, which flags and pins have Comments, what you have pinned, and what it added before. It can read another page or flag's Comment when it matters. That is how it can point you to a marked spot without pretending it saw the Board. What Mesh can do says what it knows about each surface.

Ask Mesh to add real content

Ask for a diagram, sticky notes, labels, shapes, arrows, a rendered rich-text card, or a saved Image, and Mesh places them as ordinary Board content you can move and edit. Everything from one request arrives together in a titled Drawn by Mesh frame.

If your message included a fresh snip and you're still on that page, Mesh sets the frame down beside the snipped area when it can. Once placed, it's all yours: move it, edit it, break up the frame, or delete the lot.

Outcomes prove placement

When Mesh finishes, an outcome row appears under its answer: Created, then the frame's name. Open that chip and the card offers Go to board, which jumps straight to the frame for as long as it's there. Mesh can also check later whether what it placed is still on the Board. What you have drawn since stays unseen until the next capture.

Let Mesh name a stable return point

Ask Mesh to flag, mark, bookmark, or name a pin or a Drawn by Mesh frame it placed, and it adds one Board flag there. It will do that unasked only when the task truly needs one stable return point. The flag sits at that item's exact location and can be opened or filed under a Topic right away. Mesh never creates standalone flags, never flags your drawings, and never leaves waypoints behind after routine Board work.