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OrbitZR Documentation

A complete guide to everything currently built in OrbitZR: workspaces, boards, cards and comments, checklists, labels, the six board views, Pilot automation, Power-Ups, the AI features, Inbox, notifications, sharing and billing. No feature listed here is a preview or a promise; it's all shipped and working. Where something is still on the way, this page says so explicitly.

01

Getting started

Signing up walks you through a single guided setup. By the end of it you have an account, a company workspace, and your first board with columns already in place.

1

Tell us about you and your org

Your name, role, company name, size, and what you'll use OrbitZR for.

2

Create your first board

Name it, pick a color and visibility, and choose which starter lists to include.

3

Invite your team

Optional at signup. Add teammates by email now, or invite them later from the workspace.

4

Set your password and go

You're logged in immediately and land straight on your new board.

The person who signs up this way automatically becomes the workspace's first Admin.

02

Workspaces & roles

Every company that signs up gets its own private workspace at /{company-slug}. Everything inside, boards, cards, members, belongs to that one workspace and is invisible to every other company on OrbitZR.

Admin

  • Sees and opens every board in the workspace, even ones they haven't been explicitly added to
  • Creates boards and manages workspace-wide settings
  • Invites new members and promotes/demotes Admin ↔ Participant
  • Counts as a board member everywhere: Team lists, assignee pickers, and @mentions, automatically

Participant

  • Only sees boards they've been explicitly added to
  • Full access to work on those boards: cards, comments, attachments, assignees
  • Can update their own profile and appearance settings
  • Can't reach the workspace's Settings → Workspace tab (members, roles, invites)

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Boards

A workspace can hold any number of boards. Each one is an independent Kanban with its own columns, cards, members, and background image.

  • Create a board with a name, an accent color, a visibility setting, and a starting set of lists
  • Switch boards from the sidebar's board list or the workspace switcher dropdown
  • Each Admin can set their own background image for how a board looks on their screen. It's a personal preference, not shared with the team
  • The sidebar's Team section shows everyone with access to the board you're currently viewing, with real profile photos where set

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Cards

Cards are the unit of work on a board. Add one from any column, and set as much or as little detail up front as you want.

Rich-text description

A full formatting toolbar: bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code blocks, and links.

Status

Every card can be marked Normal, Urgent, or Low, shown as a badge in the card footer.

Due dates

Set a due date once and it automatically feeds the List, Timeline, and Calendar views.

Assignees

Assign any board member, Participant or Admin, and their avatar shows on the card face.

Color-coded header

A fixed 5-color palette (sky, green, amber, red, plum) that always renders identically for every teammate.

Drag & drop

Reorder cards within a list or move them across columns. Position is saved instantly.

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Card details & comments

Clicking a card opens a centered detail view split into two panes.

Left pane

  • Title, due date, status, assignees, and list
  • Full rich-text description editor
  • Checklist progress, when a card has one
  • Every image and document uploaded to the card, in one place

Right pane

  • The full comment thread on the card
  • Type @ to open a picker of everyone on the board, Admins included, and tag them by name
  • Attach up to 5 images or documents per comment (10 MB each) with the paperclip button
  • Files land in the left pane's Attachments section automatically

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Checklists

Break a card into steps. A card can hold several checklists, each with its own items, and the card face shows combined progress so you can see how far along something is without opening it.

  • Add, rename, reorder and delete both checklists and the items inside them
  • Copy an existing checklist from another card instead of retyping a routine
  • Generate one with AI from the card's own title and description, then edit the suggestions before saving (see AI features)

07

Labels & stickers

Labels

Named, colored tags defined once per board and applied to any card. They render as chips on the card face, and the filter panel can narrow a board down to a single label.

Stickers

A lighter, more informal marker: drop an emoji sticker onto a card from a shared palette. Handy for the conventions a team invents itself, without spending a label on it.

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Board views

The same board, laid out six different ways. The underlying cards never change, only the angle you look at them from. Switch with the view tabs, or the Views popover beside the board name.

Board

The classic Kanban: columns of draggable cards.

List

Every card as a flat, scannable table row: title, list, labels, due date.

Timeline

A horizontal date axis, one row per list, cards plotted on their due date. Undated cards show separately so nothing gets lost.

Calendar

A month grid in the spirit of Google Calendar: cards shown on their due date, with month navigation and a Today shortcut.

Table

A spreadsheet-style grid of every card with its fields in columns, for when you want to compare a lot of cards at once rather than read them one by one.

Dashboard

Charted metrics across the board: how work is distributed, what's due, and where cards are piling up.

Clicking a card from any of these views opens the same detail modal as the Board view. Timeline, Calendar, Table and Dashboard are plan-gated, see Plans & modules.

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Filtering & search

Two different tools that are easy to mix up: one narrows the board you're on, the other jumps you around the app.

Filter panel

Narrows the current board. Combine a keyword with any mix of members, status, due date, labels and recent activity; match any or all of them; optionally collapse lists that end up empty. Cards that don't match hide instantly, with no page reload, and Clear resets everything in one click.

Quick find ⌘K

The topbar search. Opens a palette that searches the whole portal, Power-Ups, AI features, views, board tools and pages, grouped by category with live counts. Arrow keys and Enter to open a result. It deliberately doesn't touch the cards on your board; that's the filter panel's job.

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Pilot automation

Pilot is the board's rules engine. Every rule is the same shape, when this happens → if this is true → do these things, and runs on the server, so it fires whether or not anyone has the board open. Each rule keeps a run history you can check.

Triggers

  • A card is created
  • A card is marked complete
  • A card is moved between lists
  • A card becomes overdue
  • A card sits untouched for N days
  • A due date arrives, or a set number of days/weekdays before or after it
  • On a schedule: daily, weekly, every N weeks, monthly by date or weekday, or yearly
  • Someone presses a card button or a board button

Conditions

  • Always run
  • Only if the card has a due date
  • Only if the card is overdue

A condition is optional; leave it on "always" and the trigger alone decides.

Actions

  • Assign a member
  • Notify someone
  • Move the card to a list
  • Archive the card
  • Set or clear the due date

Board buttons get three more that act on a whole list rather than one card: add a card, move every card between lists, and sort a list by title, due date or creation date.

A rule can carry several actions and they run in order. Rules can be switched off without deleting them.

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Power-Ups

Optional modules you switch on per board from the Power-Ups directory. Five are live today.

Google Sheets

Connect a board to a spreadsheet and keep the two in step, so anyone who lives in Sheets can read the board without an OrbitZR account.

Tasklist

A running, board-wide task view that pulls work together across lists and reports on it, rather than making you read every column.

Timed Access

Give someone access to a board for a limited window. When it expires, access is withdrawn automatically rather than relying on someone remembering.

AI Project Manager & AI Chatbot

Both ship as Power-Ups you enable per board. They get their own section below.

Slack, Google Drive and Gmail appear in the directory as planned integrations and are not available yet; the directory labels them as such.

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AI features

Four separate things, all reading your actual board rather than answering from general knowledge.

AI Project Manager

Run an analysis and it reads the board's tasks, deadlines, workload and progress, then reports project health, key risks, blockers and recommendations. Every suggestion can be marked helpful or not helpful, and you can re-run it whenever the board has moved on.

Ask AI

A chat panel inside the AI Project Manager for questions about this specific project, answered from its own data.

AI Chatbot

A general assistant for the board, available as its own Power-Up. It can also create cards for you rather than only replying.

Write With AI & AI checklists

Draft a card's description from its title, and generate a checklist from what the card already says. Both produce a draft you review and edit before anything is saved.

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Inbox

A holding area for things you don't want to lose but aren't ready to file. Capture a note in one line, reorder the list as priorities shift, edit or delete entries, and when something turns out to be real work, convert it straight into a card on a board. The sidebar shows a badge with how many items are still waiting.

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My Tasks

One page, reachable from the sidebar, listing every card assigned to you across every board you have access to, grouped by board, soonest due date first. The sidebar badge shows how many you currently have. Clicking a task jumps straight into that card's detail view on its board.

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Notifications

The bell in the topbar collects what's happened to you, with an unread count. Three things generate one:

  • You were assigned to a card
  • Someone @mentioned you in a comment
  • A Pilot rule ran and affected something of yours

Boards also update live while you're looking at them: when a teammate changes a card, it updates in place and gets a small dot so you can see what moved without refreshing. Invite and board-access emails are sent for real, queued in the background so nobody waits on a mail server. What lands in your email is configurable under Settings → Notifications.

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Sharing & visibility

Every board carries one of three visibility settings, changeable at any time from the board's toolbar.

Private

Only people explicitly added to the board, plus workspace Admins.

Workspace

Anyone in the company workspace can find and open it.

Public

Reachable by link as a read-only view. No account, no invite, and no seat used, for clients and stakeholders who only need to watch.

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Archive

Archiving takes a card off the board without destroying it. The archive, opened from the topbar or the board menu, lists everything that's been put away and lets you restore it to its list or delete it permanently once you're sure. Pilot rules can archive cards for you on a trigger, which is the usual way finished work leaves a board.

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Invites & team management

Board invites

The Invite button on a board's topbar (Admins only) adds someone to that specific board. If they already have a company account, access is instant. If not, they get an email with a link to set a password and join, already scoped to that board.

Workspace invites

Settings → Workspace lets an Admin invite new members to the company at large, see everyone who's joined, and see who's still pending, with a copyable invite link for each.

Role management

Also from Settings → Workspace, an Admin can promote a Participant to Admin or step someone back down, right from the member list.

Team visibility

The sidebar's Team section and every assignee/@mention list are always board-accurate. Admins included automatically, even without being formally added.

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Profile & appearance

Available to Admins and Participants alike, under Settings.

Account

Update your name and email, change your password, and upload a profile photo with a built-in crop tool before it's saved.

Appearance

Switch between light, dark, or system theme, pick your own primary/accent/sidebar colors, and set a personal board background image.

The Settings → Workspace tab (members, roles, invites) stays Admin-only.

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Plans & modules

Features are switched on per workspace as individual modules rather than as one blanket "paid or not" flag, so a plan can carry exactly the pieces it should. New workspaces start on a Premium trial with everything unlocked; the countdown sits in the topbar and links to billing.

Included on every plan

  • Boards, lists, cards and the Board and List views
  • Labels, stickers and checklists
  • Pilot automation
  • Power-Ups

Plan-gated modules

  • Timeline, Calendar, Table and Dashboard views
  • Extended Colors: the full 12-color palette for cards, lists and labels, instead of the standard 5

A locked view still shows in the switcher with a padlock, so you can see what a plan would add rather than having it hidden.

Billing, invoices, seats and currency all live under Settings → Billing.