Drag a whole folder — or a .zip archive — straight onto the canvas and the board takes it from there. You choose how the content comes in: as a lightweight reference, as copied media, as cards on the canvas, or as an entire sub-board. This is the fastest way to move an existing project, an asset pack, or a downloaded template kit onto a board.
Folder import needs the desktop app — the browser build can’t see where a dropped folder lives on disk. Pasting a copied folder with Cmd / Ctrl-V works too.
Drop a folder on the board
Dropping one or more folders opens the Add folder to board dialog with four ways to bring the content in:
- Place as reference on Canvas — drops a folder card that links to the folder on disk. Nothing is copied; the card shows a cover image and a live item count read straight from the folder. Use it to keep heavyweight source material next to your work without duplicating it.
- Import to Media folder — copies the folder into this board’s media folder. Nothing appears on the canvas; the files simply become board assets you can pull in later from the Media Library. If a folder with the same name already exists, the copy gets a
-2,-3… suffix instead of overwriting. - Put as Sub Board — creates a child board filled with the folder’s media and places a Sub Board card on the current canvas. Every supported file anywhere inside the folder (subfolders included) becomes a card on the new board, laid out in a grid, and the child shows up in the board hierarchy like any other board. Very large folders are capped at the first 200 files — the status notice tells you when that happens.
- Unpack content and put on board — copies the folder’s subfolders into the board media folder and places a card for every top-level file right where you dropped it. Subfolders are copied as-is, so an HTML page that references its own
assets/,css/, ormedia/folders keeps working — top-level.htmlfiles become live HTML cards rendered against those sibling folders.
Dropping several folders at once applies your choice to each of them — reference cards cascade, and Sub Board mode creates one child board per folder.
Folder reference cards
A reference card stays connected to the folder on disk. Its toolbar has two buttons:
- Import opens the Import media from folder picker: a thumbnail grid of every media file in the folder, subfolders included. Tick the files you want and Import Selected copies just those into the board media folder and places them as cards next to the folder card. Import Folder brings in the folder’s direct children as cards and copies its subfolders into board media (the same trick that keeps HTML pages working). There is also a Remove all action that moves the folder’s files to the system Trash — it asks for confirmation first.
- The folder button opens the folder in Finder / Explorer.
Because nothing is copied, moving or deleting the folder on disk leaves the card showing “Folder not found” — re-drop the folder to relink it.
Zip archives
A dropped .zip becomes a compact archive card — the file is stored with the board, but nothing is extracted yet. Select the card and open the Unzip menu in its toolbar:
- Unzip as Reference Folder — extracts next to the archive inside the board media folder and drops a folder card that links to the files.
- Unzip and put items on canvas — extracts into the media folder and drops a card for each supported file, in a grid to the right of the archive card.
- Unzip as Sub Board — creates a child board with the archive’s media and places a Sub Board card here (same 200-file cap as folders).
The extractor is tidy about real-world zips: an archive that wraps everything in a single top-level folder is unwrapped automatically, and macOS junk entries (__MACOSX, ._… files) are skipped.
What gets imported
Files are typed by extension, and each supported type becomes the matching canvas element: images, video, audio, PDF, text, Markdown, Word and CSV documents, HTML pages, 3D models (OBJ/GLB/GLTF/FBX), Figma files, fonts, After Effects and Blender projects, DaVinci Resolve projects — even nested .zip archives come in as archive cards. Anything unrecognised is skipped when placing cards, though Unpack still copies it to the media folder so relative references keep resolving.
Everything a folder or zip brings in lands in this board’s media folder, so the assets stay with the board — they appear in the Media Manager, ship with board exports, and follow the board if you move it.
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