The Dashboard View: Your Story at a Glance

When a project grows past a handful of cards, you need a way to take it all in without clicking through the tree. The dashboard view gives you that overview: a single screen that surfaces the shape of your story and where things stand.

What the dashboard shows

The dashboard pulls together the high level picture of your story from the cards you have built. Instead of opening one card at a time, you get an at a glance summary of your project: what you have, how it is distributed, and how your writing is progressing.

This is the view to open when you want orientation rather than detail. It answers questions like where the bulk of your work is, what is thin and needs attention, and whether the project is moving.

When to use it

Reach for the dashboard at the start and end of a session. At the start, it reminds you of the state of things and helps you decide where to put your time. At the end, it shows what you moved.

It also helps at the moments when a project feels overwhelming. Seeing your story summarized in one place often makes the next step obvious: the folder that is empty, the act that is underdeveloped, the thread you dropped.

The dashboard is one of several views

Remember that the dashboard is one lens on the same underlying cards. When you want a different angle, switch to the graph for relationships, the timeline for chronology, the map for geography, or the canvas for free form planning. You build your story once and view it however helps right now.