Mastering navigation and selection tools helps keep your focus sharp, whether you’re reviewing a team board or aligning with ART-level deliverables.
Choose Your Input Device: Mouse, Trackpad, or Auto
First things first - set your input device for the best experience.
Click on your Profile / Avatar
Open the Board Settings
Select your Input Device
piplanning.io adapts seamlessly to your preferred input style — whether you’re using a mouse, trackpad, or touchscreen. Here's how it works:
Auto mode detects your device type and switches navigation behaviors accordingly.
Mouse mode lets you pan by right-clicking and dragging, and zoom with the scroll wheel.
Trackpad mode enables two-finger scroll to pan and pinch gestures to zoom.
Choose Trackpad mode if you like two-finger scroll + pinch, and Mouse mode if you prefer scroll-wheel zooming. Or simply rely on Auto for hassle-free switching.
Zoom In & Out
Zooming keeps you in control of detail or overview:
Mouse wheel or trackpad pinch: Smoothly zoom in and out centered on your cursor.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Windows:
Ctrl++,Ctrl+-Mac:
⌘++,⌘+-,⌘+0
Zoom Buttons: Use the zoom buttons in the Board Utilities tool bar
Pan (Move around the board)
Easily move your view to explore:
Click-and-drag with the hand tool (
Spacebarto toggle).
Arrow keys nudge the view slowly for fine-tuned repositioning.
Space + drag offers quick, temporary pan mode.
Multi-Select Sticky Notes
Efficiently work with groups of sticky notes:
Click + drag to draw a selection rectangle (lasso-select).
Shift + click (Win) / ⌘ + click (Mac) adds specific items to your selection.
When multiple items are selected, you can do the following bulk actions:
Align Horizontally
Distribute Horizontally
Align Vertically
Distribute Vertically
Line up in a grid
Link
Share
Delete
Undo (only usable for alignment actions)
