# Lanes and columns ### Adding lanes and columns **Adding lanes or columns:** Hover between two column or lane headers, and a blue plus-button will appear, allowing you to add new elements.

**Managing lanes or columns:** click the three-dot menu to move or delete lanes and columns. **For lanes,** there are even more options:

### Lane and card types All lanes and cards are of a specific type, such as text lanes, stage lanes, and more. You might not see all options, depending on what plan you're on.

Cards added to a lane will automatically have the same type as the lane. But the great thing is: {% hint style="success" %} *Cards of any type can be placed into lanes of any type.‍* {% endhint %} ### Lane type: Grid Use the Grid to build channels or tables of any kind. The Grid is made up of sub-lanes, also known as swim lanes, making it ideal for displaying channels, e.g. using the [Icon card](https://helpdesk.smaply.app/journey-editor/editor/cards). You can place cards of any type into the Grid, providing a flexible way to organize and visualize different aspects of your journey map.

Grid lane: Single icons as channels / teams / ...

Grid lane: Processes made of spanned text cards

### Lane type: Emotion chart The Emotion chart is used to display the emotional journeys of either personas or non-personas. Emotions are represented as dots on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from -2 to +2 by default, these values are customizable. You can add as many emotional journeys to your chart as you like, allowing for detailed comparison.