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Exporting a Board or Document as a File

Exporting a Board or Document as a File

Last updated: August 2026


You do not have to go and find the export menu. Ask.

"Export this board as a PDF."
"Give me a PNG of this board."
"Export the treatment document as a PDF."

The board export

This is the export menu's own export — the same file, the same quality choices. The AI is not composing a lookalike; it is pressing the button you would have pressed, and the file downloads for you.

Two things follow from that:

  • It exports the whole board, not a selection.
  • It can only export a board that is open. Asking about a board you are not on will not work — open it first.

The document export

Asking the AI to export a Storyflow document gives you exactly the file that document's own Export button produces. There is nothing to revise afterwards: to change the PDF, change the document and export it again.

This matters because the alternative is worse. If the AI composed a fresh PDF resembling your document, it would come out subtly different from the thing you are looking at — different enough to notice at the wrong moment.

When to compose instead

Export takes something you already have and turns it into a file. Composing a PDF builds a new document out of material — a board, notes, a transcript — laid out for print. If what you want does not already exist on screen in the shape you want it, ask for a PDF to be made rather than exported.

Use Cases

  • Send a client a PDF of the board without breaking your train of thought
  • Get a PNG of the canvas for a deck, from the chat
  • Export a finished document as a PDF and have it land on the board beside its source

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