Creating and managing boards

A board is one project's home: a novel, a course you're planning, a garden you're plotting. Cards live on boards, and everything on a board — its cards, tags, and layout — stays together.

Create a board

From your boards page, click + New board and name it. You can create as many boards as your plan allows — the free plan includes 3 active boards, and paid plans go up from there. Archived boards never count against your limit.

Board view vs. kanban view

Every board has two layouts, toggled from the buttons in the board header:

• Board is a free-form corkboard. Cards sit wherever you put them, snap to a tidy grid, and the board grows as you spread out — to the right and downward. Leave gaps, cluster ideas in corners, keep an "unsorted" pile at the edge. It's your board.
• Kanban arranges the same cards into columns you name yourself — "To write", "Drafted", "Done", or whatever your process looks like. Add columns with + Column, rename one by clicking its name, and delete one from its ✕ (its cards move to the first remaining column, nothing is lost).

The two views remember their layouts independently: rearranging your corkboard doesn't scramble your kanban columns, and vice versa. Flip between them as the work demands.

Rename a board

Click the board's name in the header and type. On the boards page, hover a board tile and choose Rename.

A note on how boards save

Everything autosaves as you work — there's no save button anywhere in Cork. Your boards sync to your account, so they're there when you sign in from another computer.

When a board is done

You can archive a board to tuck it away without deleting anything — archived boards don't count toward your plan's board limit.