Different People, Different Maps
Your story map is the team’s working document: detailed, messy in the right ways, full of risk cards and open questions. But when your VP asks “where are we on onboarding?”, they do not need to see every card.
And when a CSM is prepping for a customer QBR, they want only that customer’s view.
Saved Views
Saved views are named filter configurations you can switch between instantly. Instead of re-applying filters every time you need a different perspective, set it up once and come back to it by name.
Filter by Audience
Filter by persona to see cards relevant to a specific user type, or by customer to see every card that belongs to one account. Combine filters to narrow further: “Admin persona, Acme Corp customer” shows the admin features Acme cares about.
Save the configuration as a named view like “Acme Corp: Admin Features” so you can pull it up in seconds before a meeting.
Filter by Status
Show only “In Progress” cards for standups, and hide “Done” cards to focus the team forward. Filter by card type to run a risk review: show only risk cards across the entire map to see where concerns are clustered.
Status filters are especially useful for recurring meetings: create a “Standup” view and a “Risk Review” view so you can switch between them in one click.
Display Options
Beyond filtering, you can control what information each card shows. Show or hide card types, statuses, labels, colors, and customer or persona tags. Adjust card scale for presentations. Collapse entire journeys to focus on the part of the map that matters for a given conversation.
A view for exec reporting might collapse all journeys except the one being discussed, hide card descriptions, and show only milestone headers. A view for the development team shows everything.
Sharing Externally
Sometimes the right audience is not on your team: it might be a customer, a board member, or a partner. Cartographer lets you share board views externally with password-protected, read-only links that do not require an account.
Create a Share Link
Open the Share dialog on your board, enable sharing, and set a password. You get a link you can send to anyone. When they open it, they enter the password and see a read-only version of the board. There is no sign-up, no invitation flow, and no permissions to manage.
The password protects the link from being forwarded casually. Change it any time, or disable sharing entirely to revoke access.
Choose Which Views
You can restrict a shared link to specific saved views. Share the “Executive Summary” view but keep the detailed “Development” view private. The recipient only sees what you chose to share. They cannot toggle to other views or access the unfiltered board.
One board can serve multiple external audiences this way, each with a share link scoped to the right level of detail.
Use Cases
- Exec reporting. Collapse journeys to show only milestone headers and high-level progress. Share before a board meeting so stakeholders can review asynchronously.
- Customer QBR. Filter by customer, create a saved view, and share the link before the meeting. The customer sees what is in progress and planned for their account.
- Cross-team alignment. Filter to dependency cards or a specific journey that another team owns. Share so they can see what you need from them without joining your workspace.
- Board advisory updates. Create a quarterly snapshot view with status filters and milestone boundaries. Share a read-only link that board members can check any time.
