Planning poker. Everyone picks a value privately; one Reveal shows every answer at once.
Choosing a scale
Add an Estimate card from the palette's Ask category, one of the six Collaborate categories. A new card asks Choose a scale right on the canvas: Fibonacci (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ?), T-shirt (XS S M L XL ?) or Powers of two (1 2 4 8 16 ?). Tap one and the card is ready. Anyone who can edit may choose; anyone else sees "Waiting for a scale".
To change it later, right-click the card and open Scale. Changing the scale keeps answers already cast, so start a new round first if people have answered.
Every scale ends in ?, which is a real answer: "I can't size this."
The card's label is the thing being estimated. Double-click it to name the story.
Before the reveal
Tap a value to pick it; your pick lifts in the accent colour. The card shows who has answered, as a face-down card with their avatar, and the header counts how many are in ("3/5 answered"), never what they said. That is the point: seeing a number first is what anchors a room.
Press your own pick again to withdraw it. Picking a different one replaces it.
Reveal sits at the foot of the card once anybody has answered. It doesn't wait for everyone: the count already tells you who is missing.
After the reveal
Every card turns face up at once, sorted low to high with its author's avatar, and the spread is called out ("Spread 3 → 13"), or "Unanimous · 5" (with the value) when everyone agreed. The lowest and highest cards are ringed: they are the two people who should talk first. New Round takes Reveal's place and empties the card for the next story.
Reveal and New Round belong to the facilitator while somebody holds that role, and to any editor otherwise. Editors and anyone on a Participant pass can pick a value, and picks are never undone by somebody else's Ctrl+Z.
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