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The project map is the plan. Phases run left to right. Each enabler sits under a phase. Each enabler holds the cards that make it real. Moving something on the map is how you change the plan. Open it at alicein.app/workspace.

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Reading a card

Each enabler shows its state on its face: The legend sits at the top right of the map. Open how to read this map underneath it for the same key in the app. The header above the map shows active enablers, commits this week, and how many things need you. If the map can only place some of those, it says so: “31 need you · 2 here”.

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Building your plan

  • Add an enabler — press the + beside a phase. It appears under that phase, ready to name.
  • Add a card — open an enabler and press + Add card. Type the name and press Enter; it chains into the next one, so you can type a list without the mouse.
  • Add a checklist item — open a card and press + add checklist item. Same chaining.
  • Rename anything — double-click it. Esc cancels, Enter saves.
  • Delete — the bin icon on an enabler or card, or drag a card onto the delete zone that appears while you drag it.
You can also ask Alice to add a phase, an enabler, or a set of cards. She writes them into the same graph.

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Moving around

Click any enabler card. Its panel opens with every card underneath it, its members, and its status. Click the status chip to cycle it.
Drag the enabler onto a different phase. The target highlights as you drag over it. The drop changes the plan.
Double-click a name to edit it in place. Esc cancels.
Inside an enabler, click a card for its checklist, description, notes, links, assignees and comment thread.
Drag cards within an enabler to reorder them, or drag a card out onto the delete zone that appears while dragging.

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Working a card

A card is one shippable piece of work — see How work is organized for how to size one. Inside a card you have:
  • Checklist — the steps. Click a dot to mark one done.
  • Status — click the chip to cycle: not started → in progress → done.
  • Assignees — people and agents alike.
  • Comments — the review conversation, including your agent’s replies, lives on the card itself.
  • History — the remembered record behind this card: every event and decision that names it. This is the citation trail, not a summary.
  • Queue for agent — hand the card to your connected agent. See below.

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Handing work to your agent

Press Queue for agent on a card, or drag the card onto the agent-queue button. See The agent queue for how the round trip works.

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Tidying a busy enabler

Opening an enabler puts the cards that need a person first: waiting for review, then queued, then in progress, then the rest.
  • ⇅ organize writes that order into the plan if you want it kept.
  • Done cards collapse into their own section, with the older ones folded away until you ask for them.
  • A card staged for a later phase is flagged as such; drag it back up to a phase to un-stage it.
  • Drag a card onto an enabler in another phase. On the phase map, hover the other phase while the card is in the air and its enablers open as drop targets.

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Two layouts

The map ships in two layouts — a classic column layout and the phase map. Both show the same project; pick whichever reads better to you. Everything on this page applies to both.

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Settings

The ⚙ at the bottom right is the same on the project map and, under View, on the factory gear. Most choices stay on this browser. Your name is saved with the workspace.

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Finding things

Search sits in the legend row (top right), with a quiet Knowledge mark to its left. Press / or Ctrl/⌘+K to find a card or enabler by name or number. The knowledge view is that mark — the project’s written record. Factory appears in the top toggle once you turn Show factory tab on in Settings.