A canvas for thinking together

A sticky-note canvas you never lose.

Klistra keeps everyone's notes in one room — with rich text, peer cursors, and a history you can rewind. Edits keep working when the wifi doesn't.

Real-time, peer-to-peerOffline-firstVersioned
Q2 strategy retro/ rooms / klistra-ab8f
AAnnaMMikael2 here
Workshop kickoff
Reframe the brief — what are we really solving?
Customer voice
"It feels like we're duplicating effort across rooms."
Hypothesis
If everyone writes in one canvas, alignment is faster.
Risk
Network drops mid-session — we can't lose ideas.
Next step
Owner
Anna — drafts the brief by Friday.
Anna
Mikael
Saved · 2s ago
How it works

Your edits land in four places, in order.

The first two are instant. The last two happen in the background, so the canvas never waits on the network. That's why typing feels the same online and off.

A write is "done" the moment your screen updates.

Real-time sync between people stays peer-to-peer. The cloud is for persistence, history, and joining a room you've never opened before — not the keystroke path.

  • CRDT
    Conflict-free by constructionConcurrent edits converge — no merge UI, no lost characters.
  • P2P
    Peer-to-peer real-timeWebRTC moves your edits between teammates directly.
  • CLOUD
    Cloud as memory, not bottleneckSnapshots and a structured changelog flow to Firestore in the background.
Sync hierarchy · per write
01
Yjs documentin-memory · ~0 ms
sync
02
y-indexeddbsurvives refresh, no network
sync
03
y-webrtcconnected peers · < 100 ms typical
async
04
Firestoresnapshots + changelog · debounced
async
Features

Built for the messy middle of a project.

Sprint goals
Bold ideas, italic doubts, code, and links.

Rich text in every note

Headings, lists, quotes, code, links — Tiptap inside each note, with concurrent formatting that converges. Two people can bold the same word at once.

Offline · queued
+ note "Risk"
edit "Hypothesis"
move 3 notes

Edits that survive bad wifi

Every change lands in your local Yjs doc and IndexedDB before anything else. Lose your connection mid-thought — keep typing. We'll sync the rest later.

14:32Anna edited "Hypothesis"
14:00Snapshot · "Before review"
13:48Mikael added 3 notes
13:20Anna changed color

A history you can rewind

Every meaningful change is logged with author and time. Save named versions before risky moments. Restore the canvas to any point — for everyone, at once.

Anna
Mikael
Sara
Mikael is editing

See who's thinking with you

Live cursors with names and colors, in-editor carets, and a soft lock when someone's actively typing in a note. Presence is ephemeral — it never clutters history.

Use cases

For the meetings where everyone has to write.

01 / WORKSHOPS

Discovery workshops

Get the brief, the customer quotes, and the wild ideas onto one canvas before the energy drains out of the room.

Customer voice
"We keep losing context between rooms."
Reframe
02 / RETROS

Sprint retros

Three columns, six people, ten minutes of silent writing — then dot-vote. Distributed teams get the same room as the people in person.

Kept
Tried
Stuck
03 / PLANNING

Quarterly planning

Drag bets across columns, rename a theme inline, restore yesterday's draft — and never wonder which Slack thread had the latest version.

Theme · Onboarding
Bet · Live demos

A canvas your team already trusts.

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