Moving, arranging, and stacking cards

Arranging is the point of a corkboard — the thinking happens when you move things. Here's how cards behave under your cursor.

Moving cards in board view

Drag a card and drop it on any open spot: it snaps to the grid. The board grows as you go — drag toward the right edge or the bottom and new space appears. Spread out as far as your ideas do.

While dragging over an occupied spot, watch the cues:

• A ring around the card under your cursor means dropping will stack onto it.
• A line at a card's edge (left, right, top, or bottom) means dropping will slot your card in at that seam — neighbors politely shift over to make room.

Stacking cards

Drop a card onto the center of another card and they become a stack — a tidy pile with a count badge. Stacks are good for variants of a scene, a batch of research on one topic, or "these five cards are really one idea."

Click a stack to fan it out. From there you can open any card, drag to reorder the pile (the first card is the one that shows on the board), or Remove from stack to send a card back to open board space.

Tidying empty space

Hover over any empty spot and Cork offers + New Card right there. If cards sit below that empty spot in the same column of the grid, you'll also see Remove empty space — everything below shifts up one. And if an entire vertical column of the grid is empty, hovering at its top offers Remove column, which slides everything to the right of it one space left.

Kanban view

In kanban, dragging is about columns: drop a card between two cards to reorder within a column, or into another column to move it along. The same stacking gesture works here too — drop onto a card's center to stack.

One thing to know: while a tag filter is active, dragging is paused (rearranging cards you can't see rarely ends well). Clear the filter to move things again.