Focus on one item or board

What focus mode does

Focus mode fills your screen with one item and hides everything else on the canvas. It works on images, videos, audio files, PDFs, links, Pactto Docs, tables, screen shares and boards. When you focus a board, you see the board and everything inside it.

Focus mode only changes your own screen. Other people keep their view, unless you are the spotlight and they follow you (see Spotlight your view).

Who can do it: everyone in the room, including people with Can view access.

Enter focus mode

1. Select the item, or click a board's name to select the board.
2. Click Enter focus mode in the bar above the item (for a board, in the bar next to its name).
3. The item fills the screen. At the top left you see Exit focus mode, Info and, if you can download, Download.

To see the item's name and details, click Info or press I. See See an item's details in the Info panel.

For an image or a PDF, there is a shortcut: double-click it, or select it and press Enter.

Exit focus mode

• Press Escape (if the Info panel is open, the first press closes the panel), or
• Click Exit focus mode at the top left, or
• For an image or a PDF, press Enter.

You return to where you were on the canvas.

While in focus mode

• If your access lets you draw, you can still draw and annotate on top of the item.
• Scrolling the mouse wheel does not move the canvas. Long documents, PDFs and tables scroll inside the item.
• To zoom into an image, PDF, video or screen share, hold Cmd (Ctrl on Windows) and scroll, or pinch on a touch screen. Double-clicking a focused image switches between fit and 200%. Double-clicking a focused PDF does nothing, so you do not close it while reading. See Zoom in on an item in focus mode.
• To rename the item, open Info and click the name in the first row (if your access lets you edit).
• If the Info panel is open, Escape closes the panel first. Press it again to leave focus mode.
• The chat stays available.
• Others cannot move, resize, rotate or delete an item while someone has it in focus mode. Pactto shows a message if they try. They can still play a video, turn PDF pages, change the review status, and edit the content of Docs and tables.
• Several people can have the same item in focus mode at once.
• When you focus a board, you can select, move and edit the items inside it.

Good to know

• Presenting a board uses focus mode: each slide opens in focus mode. See Present in a room.
• If you are the spotlight, entering focus mode takes your followers into the same item.
• If you start sharing your screen while in focus mode, your view switches to your screen share and returns to the previous item when you stop.
• Opening focus mode closes the AI Assistant panel if it was open.
• A screen share has no Info panel. Its name stays at the top left and cannot be changed.