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Callouts make the one thing people must not miss stand out in a tinted box, and columns put related content side by side, so a page reads like a well-designed brief rather than a long scroll.

A "Spring shoot plan" page with three callouts (a blue tip, a warning about batteries and a confirmation), then a "Who brings what" heading over three columns for Mia, Tunde and Ada
A "Spring shoot plan" page with three callouts (a blue tip, a warning about batteries and a confirmation), then a "Who brings what" heading over three columns for Mia, Tunde and Ada

Do it

Add a callout

Type /callout (or /note, /tip) and choose Callout. A box with a 💡 appears and your cursor is inside it.

Type your message.

Click the emoji to pick a different one.

To change the tint, click the colour button at the far right of the callout and choose one of the six swatches: grey, blue, green, amber, pink or purple.

A blue callout with its row of six colour swatches open below the colour button at its right-hand end
A blue callout with its row of six colour swatches open below the colour button at its right-hand end

The colour button is easy to miss: it stays invisible, even when you hover it. Move your pointer to the right-hand end of the callout, level with the first line of text, and click there.

Lay content out in columns

Type /columns and choose 2 columns or 3 columns. Your cursor lands in the first column.

Type, or add any block with /: headings, lists, images, even another callout.

Click into the next column to fill it.

Each column holds ordinary blocks, so everything you can do on a page works inside a column.

Tips and limits

Columns share the width equally. Two columns are half each, three are a third each.

Columns stack on small screens. On a phone-sized window they sit one above the other, so nothing gets squashed.

Callouts hold text. Bold, links, mentions and dates all work inside one. For a list or an image beside a note, put the callout and the list in columns.

Emoji choice. The callout's emoji picker offers a set of 40 common emoji.

Callouts and columns work on every plan.

Ideas

A launch brief at a glance. A 📣 callout with the launch date at the top, then 2 columns for "In scope" and "Out of scope", so Kemi agrees the boundaries before work starts.

Shoot-day kit list. 3 columns, one per person, each with a check list of what they bring. Put the one thing that always goes wrong in an amber ⚠️ callout above it.

Before and after. In a case study, put the old logo in the left column and the new one in the right, with a green ✅ callout underneath summarising the result.

Troubleshooting

I can't find the colour button on my callout. It's invisible until your pointer is on it. Hover the right-hand end of the callout's first line and click when it highlights.

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