When the canvas grows past one screenful, the Map in the bottom-left corner keeps the whole thing in view. It draws a zoomed-out miniature of every element and arrow in its real colours (labels left out), with a coloured rectangle marking the part of the canvas you're currently looking at, so you always know where you are and what's off-screen.
Navigating with it
- Tap anywhere on the Map to re-centre the canvas on that spot.
- Drag across it to pan continuously: the view box follows your pointer.
- Scroll on the Map to zoom the canvas in or out, centred where you scroll.
The view box updates live as you pan and zoom by any means, so the Map doubles as a constant "you are here" indicator. The shapes use their real outlines (a circle reads as a circle), and arrows show as connecting lines, so the overview is a faithful miniature rather than a grid of blocks.
When it shows, and turning it off
The Map appears once a tab has four or more elements to map (or any Illustrate pages), and it sits in the bottom-left corner. It's a desktop convenience, so it stays hidden on phones where the canvas is already edge-to-edge, and it steps aside in Zen mode or while a Plan board, view or Sheet fills the canvas, and on a Dashboard tab.
Like the other corner panels, it can be collapsed from its header or dragged to another corner (see Panel Layout).
Its settings live in Settings, under Panels › Map:
- Enable Map: switch it off to hide the Map, and on again to bring it back.
- Dim Outside the View: shades the part of the Map outside what you are looking at, so the view box stands out. On by default.
- Map Size: Short, Medium (the default) or Tall.
On a big canvas, scroll on the Map to zoom straight into a far corner, instead of panning all the way there and zooming separately.
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