Boards

Organize ideas into boards, spaces, and sections.

Proofreading in notes

3 min

Eden underlines spelling mistakes, grammar slips, and wordy phrases in your notes as you write, marks sentences that are hard to read with a small dot, and offers fixes and rephrases when you hover. Here's how it works, what it checks, and how to turn it off.

Footnotes in documents

2 min

Add numbered footnotes to any document. Type the syntax or pick Footnote from the slash menu, write the note in a small popup, and click the number any time to edit it. Footnotes with a source link open the source when clicked.

Comments on notes and items

3 min

Leave threaded comments on any item in your Library, highlight a passage in a note to comment on it, pin comments to a board, and let readers of a shared note or board comment without giving them edit access.

Sharing a board with a collaborator

4 min

Boards are shareable. Hand out a view link to anyone, invite specific people with view or edit access, and let receivers duplicate the board as their own.

Sharing a single item

3 min

You don't have to share a whole board. Make one item public and share its link, let readers comment on or edit a note, or invite specific people to just that item with view or edit access.

Team and private boards

5 min

Work with your team in one workspace without sharing everything. Private boards stay yours, Team boards are shared, and each member gets a default access level you control.

Tables

8 min

Create and work with database-style lists using columns, statuses, group-by, and the list, kanban, and calendar layouts.

Documents vs tables

6 min

Documents are for thinking. Tables are for tracking. Here is how to tell which one a piece of work needs, and how the two work together.

Working fast in freeform

4 min

The shortcuts, drag gestures, and pen habits that make a freeform board quick, plus the Miro and Poppy equivalents if you are switching over.

Grid and snapping on the freeform canvas

2 min

Turn on the background dot grid, snap items while you drag, and use the Cmd/Ctrl modifier to snap on demand or break free.

Version history

4 min

Eden snapshots every doc and board as you edit. Here's how version history works, how often a new version is captured, how to preview and restore one, and the guarantee that the latest snapshot is always kept.

Inviting people to a note, board, or table

3 min

Share a single note, board, or table with specific people by email. Choose whether each person can view or edit. Invites are free and don't use a seat.

Creating your first board

4 min

Create a board, add your first sources, then choose grid view for a swipe file or freeform canvas for a spatial creative project.

Trash and restoring items

4 min

How Eden's Trash works. Sending things to Trash, restoring them, the Cmd+Z undo, and what happens to a board's children when you trash the whole board.

How creators use Eden boards as swipe files

6 min

A swipe file is a private collection of work you study and remix. Here is how to build one with Eden boards, and the patterns that make a good one.

Boards, spaces, and sections

4 min

Three layers of organization in Eden. Boards hold your work. Spaces group boards in the sidebar. Sections group items inside one board.

Sorting a board

3 min

The four sort modes available now, what each one is good for, and which features are still coming.

Using sections to organize a board

4 min

Sections are filters inside one board that show you one slice at a time. Here is how to use them, and when they beat splitting into separate boards.

Using the Eden Chrome extension

6 min

Save any link, post, or image to a board in one click, add inline Save buttons on social platforms, and open creator research in the sidebar.

Pinning what you use most

2 min

Pin a board, a note, a table, or a chat and it lands in your Pinned section — the top of the sidebar on web, the top of Home on iPhone and Android.

Trash and version retention

5 min

How long Eden keeps trashed items and old version snapshots before reaping them, per plan. Includes the 14-day grace window after a plan downgrade so nothing falls off a cliff the moment your card is charged.

Quick capture

5 min

Capture is the fastest way to drop a thought, link, or file straight onto a board from anywhere in Eden — open it with ⌘K or the sidebar.

Eden Chrome extension quick start guide

3 min

Install the Eden Chrome extension, connect your account, choose a workspace, and save your first page or post to a board.

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