The strategy canvas

The strategy canvas is the core surface of Crux: an infinite board where research, strategy, and experience work live together and stay connected.

Node families

Nodes are grouped by the kind of work they support:

• Gather — research notes, uploaded file nodes, website links, prompts. These hold raw evidence.
• Document — rich text documents, tables, and matrices for structured writing and comparison.
• Understand — coding/tagging nodes, synthesis tables, and analysis outputs that turn evidence into insight.
• Experience — personas, journey maps, task flows, IA maps, and page maps (see Experience design nodes).
• Strategy graph — entries, concepts, activities, workshops, decisions, and evidence nodes with typed edges between them.

Edges are meaning, not decoration

Connecting nodes with edges tells Crux which evidence feeds which conclusion. AI skills use this: when you run a skill on a node, it walks the upstream chain — connected notes, files, websites — to build context. A well-connected canvas produces noticeably better AI output than a scattered one.

Working on the board

• Pan and zoom freely; use search to jump to any node.
• Drag from the Nodes panel to add node types, or let skills create nodes for you.
• Layouts — automatic layout options tidy complex boards.
• Appearance — adjust node chrome, edge styles, and light/dark theme in settings.

Canvas vs grid

The same content is available in two views: the spatial canvas and the Grid view for spreadsheet-style scanning. Toggle between them in the top bar.

Related

• Create your first canvas
• Canvas pages
• Exports & snapshots