A marker is a small status symbol shown inside a shape: a traffic-light dot or a checkbox. It lets you flag status at a glance, such as a red, amber or green status, or a to-do that is done or not, without adding a separate element to the canvas.
The markers
There are five markers, plus None, which clears it. Each tile in the menu is labelled:
- Green, Orange and Red: filled status dots. They keep their colours whatever the theme.
- To do: an empty checkbox.
- Done: a ticked checkbox. The checkbox takes the shape's text colour, so it stays readable on any fill.
Where the marker sits
The marker sits just to the left of the shape's text. If you later clear the label, the marker stays and is centred in the shape instead. It composes neatly with an inline icon: the marker hugs the label while the icon keeps its chosen side.
You can also size the marker. The Size row mirrors the text-size control:
- Scale (the default, the first tile) tracks the shape's text size, so the marker grows and shrinks with the label.
- Small, Medium and Large (one, two and three dots) give fixed sizes.
Adding a marker
Markers decorate the label, so the controls only appear once the shape has text.
Open the Text row and expand Markers, below Font, Size, Padding and Alignment.
Hover a tile to preview it on the canvas, then click to keep it: None, or one of the five markers.
Use the Size row below to pick Scale, Small, Medium or Large. It is always on screen, greyed out until you pick a marker, so choosing one never changes the menu's height under your pointer.
To mark several shapes at once, select them all and right-click: the same Markers section appears in the selection's Text row once at least one selected shape has a label, and your choice applies to every selected shape (on one without a label, the marker sits centred). Each change is one undo step, so Undo takes a marker straight back off.
Markers are for shapes only. They are not offered for arrows, text, images or tables, nor for elements that draw their own face, such as charts, progress bars and rings, ratings, code blocks, and the Behaviour and Collaborate elements (a temperature check or an idea box, for example).
Use a row of shapes with green, orange and red dots as a quick status board, then flip a dot's colour from the Markers section as work progresses.
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