The Write elements hold the elements whose content is words. Everywhere else in the palette you place something with a shape and then maybe label it; here the text is the point and the shape is just what carries it.
They differ mostly in whose words they are. A Text label is the board's own structure: a title, a heading, the name of a room. A Sticky note is somebody's contribution: an idea, a question, a point to vote on.
What the category contains
- A Text element is a free-standing label with no box around it: just words on the canvas.
Tdrops one. Use it for titles, headings, and anything that labels a region rather than an element. See Text and Fonts. - A Sticky note is a coloured note card, the one that reads as somebody's contribution rather than the author's structure.
Ndrops one. It is what brainstorms and dot votes are made of. See Sticky Notes.
Rows, not pictures
Both writing elements are rectangles with text in them, so at tile size they would look nearly alike. In their palette panel each one is a row with a one-line description instead: "a free-standing text label" against "a coloured note card" is what you are actually choosing between.
Working with them
Each behaves like any other element once placed: select, restyle, lock, rotate and move it freely, and each can carry a link like anything else on the canvas.
Text styling is shared with the rest of the canvas rather than special to this category: font, size, weight and alignment all come from the same controls that style any label. See Text and Fonts.
T and N drop a text label and a sticky note without opening the palette at all, which is the
fast way through a brainstorm: type, N, type, N.
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