Page tabs and groups

The page tabs along the bottom are how you manage every part in a project, whatever its type. Each tab is one part: a page, a scene, a slide deck, a video, or a board, all mixed freely in the same strip.

Quick overview

1. Add a part with the + button; hover it to pick a specific type instead of a plain page.
2. Click a tab to open that part; drag tabs to reorder them.
3. Right-click a tab for rename, duplicate, tag, group, and delete actions.
4. Group related parts into a named, colored folder; groups outside your current view sleep automatically.
5. Use quick nav to search parts by name, or preview all to see the whole project at once.

Detailed reference

Page tabs

Action	How
Add	The + button (a plain page), or hover it for the type menu: Single, Infinite, Slide, Video, Board
Rename	Double-click the tab label, type, then Enter
Duplicate	Right-click menu, or Ctrl+Shift+D
Tag	Right-click menu, for the part itself, the whole project, or every part in its group at once
Reorder	Drag a tab to a new position, or onto a group chip to move it into that group
Preview	Hover a tab for a live thumbnail, rendered on demand so it stays light even with hundreds of tabs

The right-click menu also offers a project-wide work browser to search every part at once, a filter that narrows the strip to a single tag, and view comments.

Quick nav

Once the project has at least one group, a small button opens a searchable dropdown listing every group and its parts, plus an ungrouped section. Type to filter, and click a result to jump straight to it.

Groups

Right-click a tab, or a multi-selection of tabs, and choose Create new group to fold them into a named, colored folder. Groups get one of eight colors automatically, which you can change later, and can be renamed, collapsed, or expanded from the same menu. Drag tabs onto a group's chip to add them to it, or onto the open tab strip to remove them from a group.

Clicking a group's chip collapses or expands it in the strip, and the chip shows a running count of how many parts it holds. A collapsed group keeps its tabs tucked behind the chip; expanding it again also switches you to the last part you had open inside it. Dropping a tab onto a collapsed chip expands the group automatically so you can see where the part landed.

The group menu

Right-click a group's chip for its own set of actions, separate from what's on an individual tab:

Action	Effect
Rename group	Edit the group's name
Expand / collapse	Show or hide its tabs in the strip
Change color	Pick a different one of the eight group colors
Export to Excel	A spreadsheet report of the group, with a thumbnail per part
Wake / sleep group	Force a group active again, or send it to sleep early
Ungroup	Remove the grouping but keep every part
Delete group	Remove the group and every part inside it

Group lifecycle

The editor tracks how recently you have used each group and flags idle ones, so it can keep the group you're working in prioritized while a project with dozens or hundreds of parts stays responsive.

State	Trigger	What it means
Active	The group you're working in	Prioritized and fully available
Warm	You just switched away from it	Still fully available, in case you switch straight back
Sleeping	Idle for about a minute	Flagged as idle; the group menu now offers Wake Group
Frozen	Idle for about five minutes	Flagged as long-idle

Timing adapts to what a group holds: a group that contains a board is sent to sleep sooner, and a group without one waits longer, since it is cheaper to keep on hand. You can override the timing from the group's chip menu: Sleep Group flags an idle group right away, and Wake Group brings a sleeping or frozen group back. The group you are currently in can't be put to sleep. Opening any of a group's tabs also wakes it.

Multi-selecting parts

Ctrl (or Cmd) click toggles individual tabs, and Shift click selects a range. Move, delete, or export a multi-selection together instead of one tab at a time, and drag any selected tab to bring the whole selection along with it.

Preview all

Open preview all to see every part in the project laid out at once, which is handy for reviewing a large deck or campaign in one glance.

Step by step

Organize a growing project into groups

1. Ctrl/Cmd-click each tab that belongs together, or Shift-click for a run of tabs, to build a selection.
2. Right-click one of the selected tabs and choose Create New Group.
3. Type a name and confirm. The tabs gather under a colored group chip in the strip.
4. Add more later by dragging any tab onto the group's chip. Take one out by dragging it back onto the open strip.

Rename a tab or a group

1. To rename a tab, double-click its label, type, and press Enter. You can also right-click the tab and choose Rename.
2. To rename a group, right-click its chip and choose Rename Group, type a new name, and confirm.
3. To recolor a group, use Change Color from the same chip menu and pick one of eight preset colors.

Put an idle group to sleep to keep a huge project responsive

1. Right-click the chip of a group you're done with for now.
2. Choose Sleep Group. It is available for any group except the one you are currently in.
3. A short toast confirms it, and the chip menu now offers Wake Group. Choose that, or simply open one of the group's tabs, to bring it back. Groups also fall asleep on their own after about a minute without use.

Find a specific part in a project with many tabs

1. With at least one group present, click the quick-nav chevron button at the left of the strip.
2. Start typing in the search box. The list filters to matching part and group names as you type.
3. Click a result to jump straight to that part. With no groups yet, right-click a tab and filter the strip by one of its tags instead, or open the project-wide work browser from the tab menu.

Examples

• Group by campaign. Put the design pages, a board for notes, and a video for one launch into a single group rather than one group per part type.
• Tag every part in a group at once. Right-click a tab inside the group and choose the tag-the-group action to open a bulk tag modal for all of its parts.
• Export a group as a report. Right-click its chip and choose Export to Excel for a spreadsheet with one thumbnail per part.
• Move several tabs together. Ctrl/Cmd-click to pick them, then drag any one onto a group chip to group them, or onto the open strip to ungroup them.
• Narrow the strip to one tag. Right-click a tagged tab and choose to filter the strip by its tag, then clear the filter from the same menu.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+N	Add a new page
Ctrl+Shift+D	Duplicate the current page
Ctrl+PageDown / Ctrl+PageUp	Next / previous page
Alt+S / Alt+A	Fast next / previous page (group-aware)
Alt+Shift+1 to Alt+Shift+9	Jump directly to page 1 to 9 (group-aware)
Ctrl / Cmd + click	Toggle a tab in the multi-selection
Shift + click	Select a range of tabs

Tips

Generate many parts at once

To create many similar pages from a spreadsheet, use the Bulk builder. The results land in their own group automatically.

Group by campaign, not by type

A group can mix design pages with a board for notes and links. Keep related work together instead of splitting it up by part type.

Troubleshooting

Deleting a group can delete its parts

The group chip menu has two different removals. Ungroup (keep pages) dissolves the grouping but leaves every part in the strip. Delete Group + Pages removes the group and everything inside it, after a confirmation. The editor blocks that second option when the group holds every part in the project, since a project must keep at least one part.

• The quick-nav button is missing. It only appears once the project has at least one group. Create a group and the chevron button shows up at the left of the strip.
• A tab you moved into a group disappeared. A collapsed group hides its tabs behind the chip. Click the chip to expand it, or use quick nav or Alt+S / Alt+A, which step across collapsed groups, to reach the hidden part.
• Sleep Group is greyed out. You can't put the group you are currently working in to sleep. Switch to another group or an ungrouped part first, then sleep it.
• Deleting a tab is permanent. Removing a part is not covered by undo, and undo history resets when you switch parts, so it can't reach a part you already removed. Recover an earlier state from Version history if you need it.
• Reordering does not lose your place. Dragging tabs, even a multi-selection, keeps the part you were viewing active after the move.

Related

• Pages for what a single tab holds
• Scenes and frames, slide decks, and whiteboards for the other part types
• Bulk builder for generating many pages into a group at once
• Artboard sizes for sizing a part