Real-time editing
The MindWeaveBoard canvas is built for many people working on the same board at the same time. There's no save button, no merge dialog, no "someone else changed this — refresh?" — every edit is live for everyone with access.
Live cursors and presence
When two or more people open the same board, you see each other:
- Cursors with names follow each person's pointer in real time.
- The avatar strip in the top-right shows who's currently on the board.
- Hover an avatar to jump the canvas to that person's view.
- Click an avatar to follow them — your viewport tracks theirs until you click again.
Idle members drop out of the strip after a few minutes; they're still on the board but their cursor doesn't render.
What you see instantly
Every change another collaborator makes appears within a fraction of a second:
- Shape creation, movement, resize, recolour.
- Sticky note edits and reactions.
- Connector additions and re-routing.
- Text edits inside any shape — character by character.
- Comments and tasks being added.
Even on a flaky network the canvas catches up gracefully — pending edits queue locally and reconcile when the connection returns.
Conflict handling
Two people can edit the same shape at the same time without conflicts. The canvas merges changes per-property: if you change the colour while a teammate moves the shape, both changes survive — your colour, their position. There's no "winner takes all".
Two people typing inside the same text shape is handled the same way — both streams of characters land in the order they're typed, just like a shared document.
Live cursors and the canvas viewport
Each person's viewport is independent — you can be panning across the canvas while a teammate zooms into a detail without disturbing each other. The exception is Presenter mode, where one person drives the viewport for everyone watching.
Offline + reconnect
If your network drops, the canvas keeps working locally — you can keep editing without interruption. When the connection comes back, your local edits sync up; any changes your teammates made while you were offline appear in their order.
TIP
A long offline session followed by a reconnect is the rare case where edits to the same shape might "collide". Even then the result is deterministic — both edits land, the most recent property change wins per property. You won't lose data.
Presence and privacy
Presence only shows up on the boards you're actively viewing. Your activity on one board isn't broadcast to other boards or to your dashboard. Org Admins can see workspace-level activity in Audit logs, but not real-time cursors.
Related
- Comments and tasks — async conversation on top of live editing.
- Presenter mode — drive everyone's viewport.
- Sharing with guests — external collaborators see live cursors too.