Plans are saved to liveplanner so you can reach them from any device and share them. Offline Mode is the other place a plan can live: only in the browser it was made in, never stored on the server. It suits private, local-first work, or simply trying liveplanner out.
Where new plans go
- If you haven't signed in, your new plans start in This Browser. Nothing you try out is sent to our servers until you choose to share it, sync it, or sign in and move it to your account. Everything you make from New Plan, and from the links that create a plan straight away (a template from the home page, say), starts in This Browser. Use Sync Plan on one if you would rather it went to liveplanner now.
- Once you've signed in, new plans go to your account.
- A plan made inside a folder or a team goes to liveplanner, whoever makes it, because that is where the folder or team lives.
A plan in This Browser is written to your browser's own storage (IndexedDB) and opens like any other. A This Browser badge next to its name in the editor marks it, so you always know which plans live only in this browser. Hover or focus the badge to read that clearing this browser's site data deletes the plan. The Explorer lists them under This Browser, in its sidebar, with how many there are, and their own page, This Browser, lists them too.
A plan in This Browser is not synced and not backed up. It lives only in this browser: clearing your site data, or the browser reclaiming storage, will delete it. Keep anything important on liveplanner, or export a copy.
What's different
A plan in This Browser is a normal plan: every editor feature works, including boards and cards, sheets, dashboards, forms, tabs, themes, undo and redo, and export. Only the features that need the server are unavailable, because there's no server copy to power them:
- Sharing needs a plan on the server. Opening Share on a plan in This Browser tells you so and offers Sync Plan: press it and the plan uploads, and the Share options appear in the same dialog, with no reload. Embeds are unavailable until it is synced, for the same reason.
- Live collaboration and teams don't apply; a plan in This Browser is yours alone. Comments still work, but only you see them.
- Add a Tab to Another Plan is unavailable for a plan in This Browser in either direction.
Moving to your account
- When you sign in with plans in This Browser, we offer to move them to your account in a Move Plans in This Browser to Your Account? dialog. Every one is ticked; untick any you want to keep in this browser, then Move. Not Now leaves them where they are, and we only ask again when there are more.
- Sync Plan, from the Share dialog, uploads a plan in This Browser to liveplanner, signed in or not. It becomes a normal plan, shareable and listed in your space in the Explorer, and the copy in this browser is removed. A guest's synced plans move to the account when they sign in, like the rest of their work.
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