Enhance your analysis by utilizing your toolbar. In the Analysis tab of your project, you can add a new note, an image, lines, text & shapes to your canvas.
These tools are especially useful on your canvas when creating different frameworks such as journey maps, 2x2's or empathy maps.
At the top of your canvas you will see a toolbar with multiple features:
How to use each feature:
Project Name- Click on the project name in the left corner to navigate to another tab of your current project.
File - Click file to Import a CSV, Export a CSV, or Export a PNG of your canvas.
Analyze Sentiment - Here you will see how many new notes are available to run sentiment analysis. This is a powerful tool to measure sentiment across your dataset to draw insights.
Filter - Use this feature to filter down your canvas by Theme, Tag, or Participant. This is especially helpful when going into a focus mode or looking at distribution among a key topic, such as a tag.
Color By - Use this feature to recolor your canvas by Theme (default view), Sentiment, Tag, or Participant. This is a impactful lens to apply to your data driven canvas.
New AI Insight - Use this feature to generate a new insight from any themed or tagged data. Read more about AI Insights here.
At the bottom of your canvas you will see canvas tools...
How to use each tool:
New Note - by selecting the new note tool & clicking anywhere on your canvas, you can create a new sticky. Adding this new note to your canvas, automatically will update your table as well.
Image - by selecting the image tool & clicking on the canvas, you can add a new image. You can resize your image by clicking and dragging the points at the corners of your image.
Line - by selecting the line tool & clicking on the canvas, you can add a new line. You can adjust the length of the line by dragging one of the points at the end of the line. You can also adjust the line color, thickness & end points on your line.
Text - by selecting the text tool & clicking on the canvas, you can add a new text box. You can also adjust the size, alignment & color of your text.
Shape - by selecting the shape tool & clicking anywhere on your canvas, you can add a new shape. In the shape menu, you can select a rectangle, triangle, circle or diamond. You can also select the color of the shape, stroke size and stroke color.
Hand - by selecting the hand tool, you can pan around your canvas by clicking with your mouse.
Arrow - by selecting the arrow tool, you can click or click and drag over any objects/notes.
Zoom - you can zoom in and out of your canvas by pinching in and out on your trackpad, or by clicking the plus and minus buttons on the zoom. If you click on the zoom percentage (ex: 80%) you will see the following options:
Zoom to Fit: Zooms out on your canvas to show all of your notes/themes
Zoom to 100%: Zooms in on your canvas to show notes at 100%.
There you have it! This is how to use the canvas toolbar in Notably. From here, you can begin creating your own frameworks to analyze your data. Check out this post on our blog to read more about Using Journey Maps for Ideation.
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