> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.workmore.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Where you lay out your process

> The canvas — your work, arranged as steps in order.

When you described your recurring task as a list of steps, you did the hard part.
The **canvas** is simply where you place those steps and connect them in the order
they happen.

Think of it as the whiteboard version of "first I do this, then this, then this"
— except the steps actually run.

## What you do here

* **Add a step** for each thing you do, starting from what kicks the process off.
* **Connect steps** so each one hands its result to the next. The connection is
  just "do this, then that."
* **Open a step** to set its details — which data, which message, which condition.

## Reading the flow

Follow the connections left to right (or top to bottom): that's the order your
work happens in. A step can lead to more than one next step when your process
branches ("if it's urgent, do this; otherwise, do that") — but most of the time
it's a straight line, just like your original list.

You don't need to think in diagrams or graphs to use the canvas. If you can say
your process out loud as "this, then this," you can lay it out here. The
individual steps you can place are listed in the [node reference](/reference/overview),
but you'll usually meet them as you need them, not by browsing a catalog.