For people whose ideas don't fit in a doc
Some ideas do not fit in a document. A document forces ideas into a line; a board lets them sit next to each other, so you can see how a train time relates to a photograph, or a claim to its proof. Lattice is that board. Drop in images, links, notes, video, and voice, let it group them into frames, then present it or send a read-only link.
Open a board- The trip is in a spreadsheet, a maps list, three tabs, and a group chat, and nobody can see the whole week.
- A month goes by and what is left of it is a camera roll with no captions.
- The idea you want to explain has four parts that depend on each other, and the doc makes you explain them one at a time.
A trip you can hand to someone
A trip is logistics and reasons, and a document can only hold them in order. On a board they sit together: the train time next to the photo of the place the train goes, the booking confirmation as a PDF next to the note about why it matters. Start from the Trip Plan template, the shape of it, route and days, stays, worth the detour, practical. Paste the link to the hotel and it unfurls with a preview. Drop the map. Record a voice note about the one thing you don't want to miss and it's there as text when you need it. The Seven Days in Kyoto showcase board on this site is the finished version: seven day columns, a drawn map of the basin, a ledger of every booking deadline, and the sound of the mountain on the day you climb it. Send the link to the people going; nobody needs an account.
A month you can look at
A camera roll is a month with the captions missing. The Monthly Journal template lays out the month, seen, heard, moving, and carrying forward, and a board holds what a diary can't: eleven photographs with a dated line under each, the song that owned the month as an audio card that plays in place, twelve seconds of video, a drawn heart around the night that mattered. Drop things in as the month goes and let them sit loose; a month isn't a grid, and two prints overlapping a corner is fine. If it gets crowded, let Lattice tidy it, and it'll group the prints by week and tag them without flattening the drift. The March showcase board is one kept this way. The board is yours and stays private unless you turn on link sharing, in which case one person you choose can open it in a browser with no account.
A pitch you can see the whole of
An argument in a document is a line the reader has to hold in their head. On a board, the claim sits on the left and the evidence sits to its right, and the connections are drawn rather than described. The Pitch or Talk template gives you the bones: the one idea, who's in the room, the evidence, the order, the ask. Drop the chart, the screenshot, the PDF, the link that unfurls. Then show it. Presentation mode clears the screen and takes the reader through it a frame at a time, on a call or across a table, or you send the read-only link and they read it on a phone in five minutes without signing up for anything. The Series A showcase board shows what this looks like when it's finished, and a PDF export covers whoever wanted an attachment.
Questions
- Do I need to be a designer to use Lattice?
- No. Drop things on the board, ask Lattice to organize them, and rename the frames. The board looks considered without any layout work.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Boards are built in a desktop browser and open cleanly on a phone from a share link.
- Is my board private?
- Yes. A board is only visible to you until you turn on link sharing. Anyone with the link can then view it, read-only, without an account.
- What can I put on a board?
- Images, video, audio, PDFs and Office files, links that unfurl into cards, notes, voice notes that are transcribed, and drawings.
- Is it free?
- Yes. There's no charge during public beta and no card to enter. The Studio tier exists only as an announcement and a waitlist so far.