Two radial shapes, each built in one step because neither can be assembled piece by piece — placed one at a time the cards step diagonally across the canvas and nothing joins them up.

Orbit

A small central label with things ringed around it, and a curved line drawn from the centre out to each one.

Anything can be in the ring: pictures, colour swatches, notes, links, videos, tickets, checklists, documents and folders, in any mix. That makes it the shape for "everything about X in one place" — as well as the film colour palette and inspiration wall that some of the boards we ship use it for.

"Put everything we have on the brand refresh in an orbit."

The AI owns the ring radius, every coordinate and every line. You supply the centre and the members.

Constellation

A radial web of notes: a central idea, themes around it, sub-notes off those, laid out and connected for you. The notes are substantial — a sentence or two each, not labels.

Twenty to thirty-five nodes makes a good constellation. Fewer and it is a mind map; more and it stops being readable.

"Build a constellation from this research — the central argument, the themes, the evidence under each."

Picking between the shapes

• Orbit — one ring of small things around a hub. Mixed card types welcome.
• Constellation — a web of real notes with sub-branches.
• Mind map — a centre with branches radiating off it.
• Colour palette — a plain grid of swatches, no hub and no lines. This is the commoner request when someone says "palette".

Use Cases

• Gather every reference, link and swatch for a project around one hub
• Turn a pile of research notes into a readable web of themes
• Build an inspiration wall around a film's central idea